Parish church of St. Marein in Mürz Valley
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Marein in the Mürz Valley is in the market town of St. Marein in the Mürz Valley in the Bruck-Mürzzuschlag district in Styria . The parish church consecrated to St. Anna belongs to the deanery of Bruck an der Mur in the Graz-Seckau diocese . The church and the churchyard are under monument protection .
history
A parish was mentioned in a document in 1251. The church was incorporated into the St. Lambrecht Abbey from 1103 to 1958 .
architecture
The Gothic church building is surrounded by the churchyard (cemetery). The surrounding wall has been preserved in parts. The rectory with parts from the 16th century adjoins to the north.
The two-bay choir with a five-eighth closure from the 14th century has pointed arched windows, simple buttresses and a vault with cross ribs on three-quarter round services in the choir closure and simple short service pieces on consoles in the yokes with round keystones. The front arch is slightly constricted. The two-bay nave, built around 1400, is one step lower than the choir. It is wider and higher than the choir and has several pointed arch windows. The ribbed vault rests on octagonal services and has hanging keystones. The western keystone shows four busts. The two-axis west gallery, resting on a ribbed vault with round keystones, was given a protruding, baroque parapet towards the middle of the 18th century. The Gothic south portal is profiled and has a pointed arch. The Gothic west tower - moved from the axis to the south - has three storeys with eaves cornices, acoustic windows with tracery, and a wedge roof.
Furnishing
The high altar was built around 1700 and bears the late Gothic middle group Anna selbdritt from the end of the 15th century. The tabernacle was created around the middle of the 15th century. The side altars were built at the beginning of the 18th century, the pulpit in Rococo. The niche statue of St. Florian is from the second quarter of the 18th century.
The rococo organ case is from the third quarter of the 18th century. The organ is from 1889.
Two tombstones on the outside name Leopold Turk, died 1841, and Barbara Breyer, died 1850.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) 1982 . St. Marein im Mürz Valley, parish church St. Anna, originally St. Maria, p. 465.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 28 ′ 28.9 ″ N , 15 ° 22 ′ 12.9 ″ E