Parish church of St. Peter in Sulmtal
The Roman Catholic parish church Sankt Peter im Sulmtal is located in the municipality of Sankt Peter im Sulmtal in the district of Deutschlandsberg in Styria . The parish church consecrated to St. Peter belonged to the then dissolved deanery Deutschlandsberg in the diocese of Graz-Seckau until the end of August 2018 ; since this deanery was closed, it has been located in the pastoral care area of Southwest Styria. The church is a listed building .
history
A church was documented in 1244 as "capella Sancti Petri iuxta Lindenberch", it is described as a branch church of Great St. Florian or the own church of the rule of Limberg Castle . The year 1298 is given as the parish survey date. After a fire (1645), an emergency chapel and a Leonhard chapel were built and the church was rebuilt (1699), with the Leonhard chapel being integrated into the building. The inauguration of the new church took place in 1701. In 1961 the church was restored outside and in 1964 inside.
architecture
The baroque church building has good rococo furnishings. The 32 m high four-storey tower with the year 1662 with a pointed helmet stands 24 meters west of the church. The tower has a front gable niche from 1792 with the niche statue of Johannes Nepomuk on the east side . It is free because it has been preserved as the remainder of the previous church. To the west of the tower is the town hall and to the north of the tower is the rectory.
The two-bay choir with a square vault on Gurten has a thirteenth part. The lower three-bay nave has a pressed groin vault on girders with egg slats. The choir and nave have flat pillars on the walls. The three-axis west gallery is vaulted under the groin and has a protruding parapet. To the north of the choir is a two-bay chapel with a three-eighth closure. The chapel has a flat barrel vault with stitch caps and shows rich stucco work on the walls from 1730. The west facade of the nave shows the wooden sculptures Florian , Augustine and Franz Xaver from the first half of the 18th century in three niches . In the gable is the year 1699.
Furnishing
According to the chronogram , the high altar is from 1784 and shows the high altar image Liberation of Peter . The tabernacle , donated by Maria Theresia von Khuenburg in 1757 , was created by Philipp Jakob Straub . At the Leonhard Altar there is a high quality altarpiece of this patron of the cattle and the prisoners, statues of St. Florian and St. Donatus , both patron saints against fire and storms. The upper picture shows St. Peter Martyr , patron of women who have recently given birth and who fight headaches. Between the statues there is a glass shrine with a relic of the Holy Martyr Placidus from the Roman cemetery of San Agnese . It was solemnly received in St. Peter on September 13, 1778.
The altar structure of the northern chapel is portrayed as a former high altar . In 1726 an altar of the Jesus-Maria-Josef Brotherhood was mentioned, in which in 1780 the figure group Holy Change was added. The focus is on the Holy Family and relatives returning from Egypt, St. Elizabeth with John , the high priest Zacharias , Hanna and the aged Simeon . Later, St. Francis and St. Dominic as well as angels , God the Father and the Holy Spirit were added to the upper part of the altar .
In 1770 Georg Mitterreiter built a new organ, the case of which has been preserved to this day. After Konrad Hopferwieser created a new organ in 1911 , the current organ was built in 2013 by the Maribor organ building workshop . The instrument has 18 stops on two manuals and a pedal.
Medardus Reig names one bell in 1685 and is consecrated to Saints Peter and Paul , the other four bells of the peal come from 1949. Since the expansion in 2017, the church has a total of 21 bells. Five of them belong to the ringing, 16 to a carillon . This carillon is the largest in Styria and the fourth largest in Austria. It was started in 2002 with originally nine bells as a birthday present to the pastor at the time and was later expanded. It is able to play around 150 melodies.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) 1982 . St. Peter im Sulmtal, parish church, p. 481.
Web links
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.
- ↑ a b c d e St. Peter and the beautiful parish church are worth a visit !. In: Weekly newspaper Weststeirische Rundschau . July 19, 2019, Volume 92, No. 29, page 13.
Coordinates: 46 ° 45 ′ 27.6 " N , 15 ° 15 ′ 1.4" E