Parish Church of St. Andrä im Sausal
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Andrä im Sausal is located in the village of St. Andrä im Sausal in the municipality of Sankt Andrä-Höch in the Leibnitz district of Styria . The parish church consecrated to St. Andrew belonged to the then dissolved deanery Deutschlandsberg in the diocese of Graz-Seckau until the end of August 2018 ; The church is a listed building .
history
A chapel was mentioned in a document in 1244. The choir, today the east chapel, and the tower are still preserved from the Gothic church building. The new north-facing church was built between 1720 and 1723 with the architect Andreas Stengg . In 1972 the outside of the church was restored.
architecture
The three-bay nave shows the extent of the former Gothic nave in the deeper northern bay. The front arch is drawn in. The retracted one-yoke choir has a three-eighth closure. The church has groin vaults on chords on stepped pilasters with Tuscan capitals. The west gallery is triaxial. The tower to the west of the northern nave yoke is four-storey, the three lower storeys are Gothic, the top storey is Baroque and has a double bulb.
Furnishing
The high altar, covering the entire end of the choir, bears statues by the sculptor Veit Königer from 1758, and shows an altar sheet with the signature Philipp Carl Laubmann pinxit Graecii in a rich rococo ornament.
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literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) 1982 . St. Andrä im Sausal, parish church, p. 412.
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.
Coordinates: 46 ° 47 ′ 28.3 " N , 15 ° 22 ′ 39.5" E