Sankt Pankrazen (municipality of Gratwein-Straßengel)

Sankt Pankrazen ( village )
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Graz-Umgebung  (GU), Styria
Judicial district	Graz-West
Pole. local community	Gratwein street angel   ( KG  Gschnaidt )
Locality	Gschnaidt
Coordinates	47 ° 8 '13 "  N , 15 ° 11' 7"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 8 '13 "  N , 15 ° 11' 7"  E
height	769  m above sea level A.
Post Code	8153
prefix	+ 43/3149 (Geistthal)
Statistical identification
Counting district / district	Gschnaidt (60 616 000)
Sankt Pankrazen with church and Anna chapel map
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk

Sankt Pankrazen is a hamlet on the edge of the Lavanttal Alps in the municipality of Gratwein-Straßengel ( Styria ) and was the capital of the municipality of Gschnaidt in the Graz-Umgebung district, which existed until 2014 .

Sankt Pankrazen (surroundings) ( scattered houses )
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Graz area , Styria
Judicial district	Graz-West
Pole. local community	Gratwein street angel   ( KG  Gschnaidt )
Locality	Gschnaidt
Coordinates	47 ° 8 ′ 16 ″  N , 15 ° 11 ′ 20 ″  E
height	750  m above sea level A.
Statistical identification
Counting district / district	Gschnaidt (60 616 000)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk

geography

The place of pilgrimage is a village at 769  m above sea level. A. Height on a ridge around which houses and farms are grouped. The settlement includes around 40 buildings with the scattered houses around it .

Neighboring places

Geistthal (Gem. Geistthal-Södingberg district Voitsberg )		Plesch (Gem. Geistthal-Södingberg district Voitsberg )
Eggartsberg (Gem. Geistthal-Södingberg district Voitsberg)		Stiwollgraben
	Kornberg (Gem. Geistthal-Södingberg District Voitsberg )	Weizberg (Gem. Stiwoll )

Parish of Sankt Pankrazen

The church is dedicated to the Christian martyr and saint Pankraz . The parish of Sankt Pankrazen is part of the Rein deanery and forms a parish association with the parish of Stiwoll . It is incorporated into the Rein Abbey .

Church complex

The entire ensemble of the church complex - parish church, cemetery with stairs and walling, Anna chapel and parsonage - is listed .

Parish Church of Sankt Pankrazen

Church of Sankt Pankrazen

Church interior

The church complex was first mentioned in a document in 1365. The choir comes from the 14th or 15th century, the nave is from the late Gothic style. The sacred building has been incorporated into Rein Abbey since 1607 .

The one-bay choir is vaulted with ribs , the lower nave consists of three bays with a ribbed vault. Of the glass windows in the choir area, the design of the middle Franz Weiss (1970) and that of the two side Fritz Silberbauer (1930) can be attributed. The sacred building has a massive tower with an onion and lantern at the end. The Sebastian Chapel, south of the choir, was built before the plague of 1723.

The high altar of the church dates from 1620 and was brought to Sankt Pankrazen by Rein Abbey in 1968. The focus is on the statue of St. Pankraz from the 19th century. The side altars are from the 17th century, the left with a late Gothic statue of the Virgin Mary. The pulpit is from 1718. In addition to the baroque organ there is a Gothic, twelve-sided baptismal font, various paintings with depictions of Saints Cecilia and David. The bells were cast in 1471 and 1696.

graveyard

Around the parish church there is a small cemetery surrounded by a defensive wall. Two gates are set into the wall, one of which has a staircase.

Anna Chapel

The small and tall chapel of St. Anna in the cemetery , integrated into the masonry, was originally called Martinskapelle . The late Gothic building on the gable, dated 1497, has a single bay and a ribbed vault and is entered through a pointed arch portal. The roof turret is crowned with an onion roof. The altar inside the chapel dates from the third quarter of the 17th century. The late Gothic statue of Anna Selbdritt was created around 1520/30.

Rectory

The rectory, which is also listed, stands outside the churchyard walls. The two-storey building with its vaulted rooms has stucco ceilings on the ground floor.

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  Anna Chapel

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  Staircase

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  Rectory

literature

• Kurt Woisetschläger, Peter Krenn: Dehio Handbook - The Art Monuments of Austria: Styria (excluding Graz). Topographical inventory of monuments, ed. from the Federal Monuments Office, Department for Monument Research. Publisher Anton Schroll. Vienna 1982. ISBN 3-7031-0532-1 . Pp. 476-477.

Web links

Commons : Sankt Pankrazen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Parish St. Pankrazen , Styrian Catholic Church

Individual evidence

• 60616 - Gschnaidt. Community data, Statistics Austria .