Parish church Sankt Martin im Sulmtal

Catholic parish church hl. Martin in Sankt Martin im Sulmtal

Interior of the parish church

The Roman Catholic parish church of Sankt Martin im Sulmtal is located in the municipality of Sankt Martin im Sulmtal in the Deutschlandsberg district in Styria . The parish church consecrated to Saint Martin of Tours belonged to the then dissolved dean's office in Deutschlandsberg in the diocese of Graz-Seckau until the end of August 2018 ; since this dean's office was closed, it has been located in the pastoral care area of Southwest Styria. The church is a listed building .

history

First mentioned in a document in 1244, there was a parish from 1395 until the 16th century. The church then went to the Gleinstätten parish church as a branch . In 1664/1665 a new tower was built and from 1701 to 1714 a new baroque church was added and consecrated in 1720. In 1783 the double onion helmet was put on. In 1788 the church was raised to a parish church. In 1906 there was a restoration.

architecture

In the open tower hall there is a late Gothic barbed pointed arch portal from the beginning of the 16th century as a remnant of the former east-facing Gothic church building.

The four-bay nave with a drawn-in front arch is followed by a one-bay choir with a three-twelfth cap. A sacristy is attached to the south and a chapel to the north is attached to the choir. The southern facade tower wears a rich double-onion helmet.

The interior of the church shows flat groin vaults on girders with strong pillars with small cornice capitals . The three-axis west gallery has a groin vault.

Outside the sacristy are two Roman stones, a figural stone and a stone with an ornament fragment.

Furnishing

The mighty late baroque high altar was changed in 1823/1824 and shows an altarpiece painted by Philipp Carl Laubmann (1745). The upper image of St. Johannes Nepomuk .

There is a 14th century bell.

literature

The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) 1982 . St. Martin im Sulmtal, parish church, p. 470.

Web links

Commons : Parish Church Sankt Martin im Sulmtal - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Gerhard Fischer: The Catholic Church in Styria is breaking new ground. Merger of the dean's offices in Deutschlandsberg and Leibnitz to form the South-West Styria region. Weekly newspaper Weststeirische Rundschau from August 31, 2018. Volume 91, No. 35, p. 2.

46.756339 15.297081Coordinates: 46 ° 45 ′ 22.8 " N , 15 ° 17 ′ 49.5" E

[1] Gerhard Fischer: The Catholic Church in Styria is breaking new ground. Merger of the dean's offices in Deutschlandsberg and Leibnitz to form the South-West Styria region. Weekly newspaper Weststeirische Rundschau from August 31, 2018. Volume 91, No. 35, p. 2.