Parish church hl. Florian (Great Saint Florian)
The Church of St. Florian is the Roman Catholic parish church of the market town of Groß Sankt Florian in Styria . Its history goes back to the first half of the 12th century.
history
The first written mention of the church comes from the year 1136. The central nave was vaulted in 1522. The side nave was added in 1711 and 1712. The side chapels were built in 1869. Around 1900 the outside facade of the church was redesigned in the style of historicism . Restoration work took place in 1951, 1967 and 1980. In 1971 the organ was restored.
description
The nave and the aisles are covered by a mighty gable roof. On the outside of the choir there are stepped buttresses, on the wall of the choir there is a Baroque crucifix and a statue of Mater Dolorosa from the first half of the 18th century. The late Gothic church tower is located in the northern corner of the choir and was raised between 1711 and 1713. His pointed helmet dates from around 1869. A relic of St. Florian has been in a niche in the tower wall since 1976 . A figurative Roman stone is built into the street-side retaining wall of the churchyard.
The core of the five-bay central nave is late Romanesque. The nave is vaulted by a ribbed vault from 1522, which rests on bevelled five-eighth wall pillars. It has round keystones . There are ogive arcades of light above the vault . The ribs in the western yoke of the central nave were cut off in 1803. The four- bay choir, which is essentially Gothic, is slightly higher and narrower than the central nave and has a three-eighth end. Its yokes are spanned by round barrels. The two lower and narrow aisles were built between 1711 and 1712. They have groin vaults . Above are the galleries . The gallery itself is in the western part of the central nave. It rests on a flat round barrel vault and has a swinging parapet. In the fourth yoke of both aisles, a side chapel each with a five-eighth end to the north and one to the south were added between 1869 and 1870 . The choir and the tower hall are connected to one another by a Gothic pointed arch portal with a studded iron door. The tower hall has a star rib vault , the keystone of which represents the Trinity (three heads). Only the lower part of the main Gothic portal in the west of the nave has been preserved.
The pillar high altar was erected in 1734 and shows an altarpiece painted by Franz Michael Strauss. The tabernacle is designed in the neo-baroque style. In front of the high altar is a baroque communion grille made of stone with a wrought iron gate from the end of the 18th century. On the southern side of the neo-baroque side altars there are two baroque angel figures. The baroque altar of the south side chapel has a portrait of St. Peter Martyr painted by Franz Michael Strauss in 1715 . Next to the picture are two angel statues from around 1760 on consoles . The altar of the north side chapel dates from the same time as the south and is dedicated to St. Joseph. He has an altar portrait also painted by Strauss. The pulpit dates from 1729. The organ front is from 1747 and the work from 1919.
On the triumphal arch there is a statue of Maria Immaculata from around 1760. Some of the late baroque Stations of the Cross are painted over and were restored in 1967. In the church there are also pictures of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Anna from around 1716, a picture of the four apostles from 1719, one of St. Mary Magdalene from around 1737 and one of St. Apollonia from that time around 1738 in the church. All these pictures were made by Franz Michael Strauss. There are also several tombstones in the church. The tombstone made of red marble of Christoph von Racknitz, who died in 1529, shows him as a full figure in armor. On the gravestone of Margarethe Schrampf, who was born in Herberstein , who died in 1558 , she is shown kneeling in front of a crucifix. The tombstone for Franz von Racknitz's daughter, who died as a child in 1593, is made of white marble. Ernst Friedrich von Racknitz, who died in 1624, is shown kneeling in front of a cross.
In the church there are works by Adolf Osterider : two glass pictures "Grace" and "Temptation", in the parish hall a panel painting "The Creation".
swell
- Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 151-152 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 151-152 .
- ^ Parish of Groß St. Florian. www.grossstflorian.graz-seckau.at, accessed on December 27, 2012 .
- ^ Weekly newspaper Weststeirische Rundschau . No. 8, Volume 2019 (February 22, 2019), 92nd Volume. ZDB -ID 2303595-X . Simadruck Aigner u. Weisi, Deutschlandsberg 2019, p. 5.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 49 ′ 23.8 " N , 15 ° 18 ′ 57.3" E