Parish church Stallhofen
The Church of St. Nikolaus is the Roman Catholic parish church of the market town of Stallhofen in western Styria . Its history goes back to the middle of the 13th century.
history
The first written mention of the church comes from the year 1245. The present choir was built in 1520. At the same time the nave was rebuilt . Until 1786 the church was incorporated into St. Lambrecht Abbey . A restoration of the outside took place in 1931 and a renovation of the church interior in 1974.
description
The mighty Gothic church tower is to the west of the church and has a pointed helmet . Among other things, it houses a bell that was cast in 1763. The tower hall is spanned by a ribbed vault. The western church portal has a pressed keel arch and, like the pointed arch portal, is barred on the south side. On the western outside, two Romanesque stone lions are walled in, which people hold in their paws. There are several stepped buttresses on the outside of the choir . The year 1520 is attached to one of the southern buttresses. On the outer wall of the sacristy there is a memorial stone with a coat of arms from the Renaissance period after the mid-16th century for Jakob Schmalzl and Ruep Nusspaum. There are also a total of 21 late Roman relief stones , some of which are figuratively designed and come from the 1st and 2nd centuries, walled in on the outside of the church.
The core of the Romanesque, four-bay nave is spanned by a late Gothic lancet barrel vault, which rests on set, late Gothic buttresses with powerful semicircular services . The vault ribs have been removed. One of the buttresses on the south wall bears the coat of arms of the Counts of Montfort . The two-bay choir is a bit narrower than the nave and has a three-eighths closure. It is vaulted by a ribbed vault with three parallel ribs resting on consoles . The consoles are partially decorated with coats of arms. The choir is separated from the nave by a constricted and profiled, pointed arched front arch . On the front arch, the dates 1788 and 1974 indicate restoration work. Two-lane windows from the Gothic period can be found throughout the church, with tracery in the choir . The majority of the window panes were made in 1931 in the Vienna glass painting workshop Rudolf Nagl. The wooden gallery , dating from the second half of the 19th century, is located in the western part of the nave and rests on two slim pillars made of cast iron .
There are several statues on the neo-Gothic high altar, some of which were made in 1878 by Jakob Gschiel . The three neo-baroque side altars date from around 1870 to 1880. The eight-sided baptismal font, dated to 1502, has a wooden top from around 1700. The baroque organ was changed in the 19th century and has cheeks from 1700 and 1752. In the church there is a larger than life, baroque crucifix from the 18th century and a statue of the saint from the mid-18th century Nicholas . Two neo-Gothic pendant lights from the end of the 19th century hang in the choir. In the nave there is a baroque picture of the Annunciation as well as several pictures of the Stations of the Cross painted by Johann Schaar in 1868 . In the tower hall there is a portrait of St. Francis painted by August Kraus in 1883 and a picture of St. Anna . In addition to these two pictures, there are two stone tablets made of marble and dated to 1555 with the Ten Commandments and a Renaissance arch with the Credo in the tower hall.
literature
- Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 540 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Parish Stallhofen. www.katholische-kirche-steiermark.at, accessed on January 30, 2016 (German).
- ↑ a b c d Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 540 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 2 ′ 46.5 ″ N , 15 ° 13 ′ 0.5 ″ E