Wenigzell parish church
The Wenigzell parish church is located in the Wenigzell community in the Hartberg-Fürstenfeld district in Styria . The parish church consecrated to St. Margaret of Antioch - incorporated into Vorau Abbey - belongs to the Vorau dean's office of the Graz-Seckau diocese . The church and the churchyard wall with a niche chapel are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
A chapel was mentioned in documents in 1209. The church was incorporated into Vorau Abbey and elevated to a parish church in the 13th century. Because of the creation of a pilgrimage to St. Patritius, the church was expanded from 1730 to 1735 according to the plans of the builder Andreas Strassgietl. The church was badly damaged in the war in April 1945. The baroque interior is burned. The church was rebuilt in 1946 and refurbished in the following years. In 1960/1961 the church was restored inside and 1968 outside.
architecture
The church building has a cross-shaped floor plan with a square west front tower with a circumferential pilaster structure. The two-bay choir closes with a semicircle. Above the west portal is a sgraffito Immaculata by the painter Anton Fötsch (1951). The door wing of the west portal was created by the sculptor Franz Weiss (1974).
The nave has square vaulted yokes, and the third and fourth yokes have split transept arms. The former ceiling decoration with stucco work and the frescoes painted around 1735/1738 by the painter Josef Georg Mayer have been destroyed, there are still remains of stucco in the reveals of the ox-eye windows and in the transept arms, in the transept arms there are cartouches with scenes from the life of Saint Patritius, Maria, Josef, Leonhard by the painter Karl Koch from 1810/1811.
Furnishing
The furnishings were largely renewed to approximate the baroque style. The high altar from 1951 based on a design and with the figures was created by the sculptor Hans Neuböck, the high altar picture St. Margarethe painted Toni Hafner . The Kanzelkorf is from 1958, the figures on the sound cover from the 18th century were transferred here from Miesenbach, Judenburg and Vorau. The altars in the chapels of St. Anna and St. Sebastian from the third quarter of the 17th century were transferred here from shelter. The altar of St. Patritius shows a picture by Toni Hafner (1955). The tabernacle is from 1953. The pillar figures of St. Christophorus and St. Josef was created in 1971.
The organ is from 1957.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) 1982 . Wenigzell, parish church St. Margaretha, around the church four initial chapels as well as a cruciform chapel, rectory, mighty wayside shrine at the western exit of the village, in the Kerschenbauer house a remarkable protective cloak Madonna from the end of the 15th century, mill on the outskirts. P. 615.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 25 ′ 32.3 " N , 15 ° 47 ′ 11.7" E