Parish church of St. Nikolai in Sölktal
The Roman Catholic parish church St. Nikolai im Sölktal - also parish church St. Nikolai in the Sölk - is located in the center of the village Sankt Nikolai im Sölktal in the municipality of Sölk in the Liezen district in Styria . It is consecrated to St. Nicholas and forms a parish association with the parish Großsölk in the deanery of Upper Ennstal - Styrian Salzkammergut in the diocese of Graz-Seckau . The church is a listed building .
history
In 1338 the church was founded by Niklas von Tann . The first documentary mention of it comes from 1480. The church has been an independent parish since 1859, previously it was a branch church of the Gröbming parish . According to the inscription on the west facade, the church was rebuilt in 1557, but according to the chronogram on the triumphal arch it was not rebuilt until 1609. A restoration took place in 1957.
Church building
The church has a wide nave with a barrel vault and a Gothic choir with a 3/8 end, buttresses stepped on the outside . The ribs of the choir vault have been removed. In the vault is a fresco from the second quarter of the 18th century depicting the Most Holy Trinity . The west gallery was built from wood at the end of the 17th century. In the parapet fields there are pictures of the Twelve Apostles from the time the gallery was built. In 1960 most of the pictures were painted over during a restoration of the gallery. In the northern corner of the choir stands the mighty, three-storey church tower with corner pilasters and a clapboard-covered onion tower . The two lower floors are from the Gothic period.
Furnishing
According to the inscription on the base, the high altar was donated in 1658. The altar decorated with cartilage ornamentation was created according to the date on the top in 1659. Today's altarpiece and tabernacle were created at the end of the 19th century.
The left side altar was built between 1670 and 1680, the right side altar is dated 1743. Both altars have newer altarpieces. The pulpit dates from the second quarter of the 18th century. On the pulpit are three saints, including St. John Capistranus and St. Bonaventure .
The statue of St. Leonhard in the church from the workshop of the sculptor Balthasar Prandtstätter was created in the second quarter of the 18th century.
Two bells hang in the church tower. One was cast in 1712 by the Graz bell foundry Florian Streckfuß , the second was made in 1720 in the bell foundry of Franz Anton Pigneth .
literature
- Kurt Woisetschläger; Peter Krenn; u. a .: Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Styria, St. Nikolai in Sölktal . Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1982, p. 472 f .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Styria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento of May 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 28, 2013 (PDF).
Coordinates: 47 ° 19 '8.2 " N , 14 ° 2' 48.1" E