Parish Church of St. Magdalena (Wildon)
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Magdalena in Wildon in Styria is a baroque church designed by the architect Franz Isidor Carlone from Graz .
history
The Lords of Wildon , whose first generation initially lived at the Riegersburg , brought the patronage of Maria Magdalena with them to Wildon around 1174 .
The first written mention of the church and parish comes from 1252. The tower from the late 15th century has been preserved from the gothic, east-facing church. (The year 1487 on the north side). From 1671 to 1676 the church building was oriented to the west during the renovation and new building by the baroque master builder Franz Isidor Carlone . The basement of the tower - today the funeral room - with a late Gothic door. The St. Catherine's Chapel of the Lords of Waldstein on the castles "Ful" and "Hengst" on the Schlossberg slope , which was still mentioned in 1606 next to the Magdalenenkirche, was probably included in this. The crucifixion chapel on the south side of the tower could commemorate them.
Sanctuary
The rococo high altar was erected in 1766 by the sculptor and master carpenter Veit Königer from Graz , the high altar painting "Death of St. Maria Magdalena" is a masterpiece by Hanns Adam Weißenkircher (1646–1695), court painter to the Princes of Eggenberg , who have been lords since 1624 Oberwildon were.
The larger than life statues next to the high altar depict St. John the Baptist and St. Peter on the left, St. Paul and St. John the Evangelist on the right. The gilded tabernacle in the middle is free-standing.
The people's altar was designed by architect Wolfgang Feyferlik as part of the church renovation in 2003 and symbolizes the Lord's Supper table, crucifixion rock and the grave of Christ.
Side altars
The altar on the south side bears the image of the dying St. Joseph, above it a small image: Christ at the Last Supper, distributing bread. The statues show St. Michael, St. Lucia, St. Apollonia, St. Donatus and St. Florian.
The altar on the north side bears the image of St. Anthony of Padua , above the Adoration of the Shepherds is depicted. The statues: Guardian Angel, St. Ambrose, St. Nicholas, St. John of Nepomuk and St. John of God .
Side chapels
At the ends of the transept in the south are the chapels of the former, baroque Rosary Brotherhood and the plague brotherhood Sebastiani and Rochi in the north. The former rosary altar is now replaced by a representation of the Mother of Christ (Immaculata), who was free from original sin, and angels stand on both sides of the tabernacle. Above is a picture of St. Barbara. The statues: St. Dominic, St. Catherine of Siena , St. Isidore, St. Notburga, on the cornice St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Raymund of Peñaforte .
The altarpiece of the north side chapel shows the two saints Sebastian and Rochus, above is a picture of St. Catherine. The statues: St. Gregory, St. Augustine, St. Aloysius, St. Cäcilia, on the cornice St. Ignatius and St. Francis Xavier .
Pulpit, font and organ
The imposing pulpit , the organ case and the organ parapet, all works from the first half of the 18th century, were acquired in 1784 from the Carmelite monastery in Graz, which was abolished by Emperor Joseph II .
On the pulpit there are statues of the four evangelists and a relief with the Madonna in protective cloak . On the acoustical roof, wonderful sculptural work depicts the prophet Elias riding to heaven in a horse and carriage, in front of him Elias, sinking to his knees. Opposite the pulpit, a statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus from the 19th century replaces the Dismas statue from the Carmelite monastery in Graz that was previously located here.
A new division of the church stalls on the right-hand side made it possible to create a new baptismal font in front of the north portal in 2003 with the existing late Gothic font .
The current organ was built by the Graz company Reinisch-Pichler in 1988.
Crypts, cemetery, grave monuments
Below the church are the so-called "Knight's Crypt" (in the area of the tower), which is now lost, as well as the new crypt that was erected on the occasion of the new building in the 1670s, in which the parish clergy and dignitaries of the market were buried. Emperor Joseph II forbade this after 1780 and also ordered the relocation of the cemetery surrounding the church. The Wildon parish only complied with this regulation in 1831 by purchasing the cemetery grounds on the so-called “Hofbauer grounds” in Kainach near Wildon.
In addition to the tombstone for Pastor Mathias Sebastian Peichl († 1738) inside the church, some tombstones on the outer church wall are particularly noteworthy: On the east side of the tower, the two-part grave monument of Maximilian Leysser (1489–1555), imperial privy councilor and Supreme Feldzeugmeister of the Lower Austrian provinces, as well as the tombstone for the lawyer Dr. Josef Edlen von Griendl († 1804), Lord of Oberwildon and decreed of the Styrian estates.
Above the main portal a tombstone of the probably Protestant councilor and innkeeper Hans Teckhinger († 1561) with his warning: “TRINCKH AND IJS AND GOTT NIT FERGIS! TU BRINGNEST NIT OF ALL YOU HAVE ONLY AIN TUECH IN THE GRAVE. ”On the street side, the gravestone for the Graz innkeeper Franz Hofstätter, which is also interesting because of its depiction of the Wildon castles, who apparently died in a carriage accident in Wildon in 1757. The large grave monument after the southern side entrance is that of Christoph Nell, owner of the Wildoner Freihaus (now a castle), from the early 17th century.
Steeple
The mighty church tower on the east side is over 66 meters high and burned down to the hall vault in 1727, whereby the bells and the clock were also destroyed. The newly acquired bells had to be handed in in the First World War, their successors from 1922 in the Second World War. The four bells raised in 1949 were replaced by new ones in 1993, donated by private sources.
History of the Wildon Parish
The Christianity arrived in the first few centuries after Christ birth on Roman merchants and soldiers to Austria, a systematic proselytizing took place only since the 7th and 8th centuries of Aquileia and Salzburg. Pastors in Wildon can be traced for the first time by name for the year 1252, when a pastor Berengar and a priest Konrad attested a document. In the castles Alt- and Neuwildon on the Schlossberg plateau there was a Michael and a Johannes chapel (with a chaplain).
Wildon was a vicariate of the mother parish of Sankt Lorenzen am Hengsberg until 1743 , and has been in the Seckau diocese since 1218/19 . The parish district initially extended over the market, Unterhaus and Kainach, before the villages on the left of the Mur (parts of the former municipality of Stocking ) and in 1779 Weitendorf (Styria) were parished. From 1785 to 1970 Wildon was the seat of a country dean's office. The rectory in its current form dates from 1855.
Web links
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- Dehio Steiermark (Vienna 1982).
- IH Joherl, Wildon then and now (Graz 1891);
- Parish chronicle Wildon;
- Pastor Josef Wendling;
- U. Geymayer (Diocesan Museum),
- GP Obersteiner (Histor. Archive of the market town Wildon);
- Diocesan Archives Graz.
Web links
Coordinates: 46 ° 53 ′ 14.2 " N , 15 ° 30 ′ 30.1" E