St. Ulrich am Hollerberg

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Side view from the southwest

The St. Ulrich am Hollerberg Church is a Roman Catholic branch church in the municipality of Krakow in Styria . The Ulrichskirche of the parish Krakau Ebene dates from the late 15th century and belongs to the dean's office Murau in the diocese of Graz-Seckau . The building is a listed building .

Location

View from the northwest

The church is located at 1314  m above sea level. A. am Hollerberg on the southern roof of the Schladminger Tauern in the Hintermühlen district of the Krakauhintermühlen cadastral community . The location marks the entrance to the Etrach Valley, a side valley of the Kraków high valley. The church towers a few meters above the municipal road that connects Hintermühlen with the Etrachsee . The building is usually locked, but can still be visited at any time. The key is available from the messner next door.

history

The church, consecrated to St. Ulrich , was built in the 15th century as a foundation by the Freising carer in Oberwölz , Konrad VIII of the Welzer family. The builder was the knight Ulrich Welzer, who was burgrave of Rothenfels until 1494 . The inauguration took place in 1478. In 1520 the first high altar was erected. Up until the 17th century, masses were only read every second or third Sunday in the St. Ulrich branch church and in the later parish church of St. Oswald , so that the residents of the Krakau Valley had to go to Ranten for the weekly church service . Due to the remote location and the lack of preservation funds after the donor family withdrew, they were soon looking for a building site for a new church. The "Parish Regulation Ordinance" issued by Josef II in 1785 meant that Krakau Ebene got its own vicariate in 1791 with the construction of the new Ulrichskirche . Some furnishings, including the Gothic high altar, were transferred to the new church. As a result, plans were made to tear down the old Ulrichskirche on Hollerberg, but local farmers resisted and renovated the church themselves. In 1843 the church was granted a measuring license.

description

Choir with high altar

St. Ulrich am Hollerberg was built in the late Gothic style as a simple rectangular building in quarry stone masonry with a retracted choir and wooden roof turret. A small rectangular sacristy is built on the south side of the choir . Three pointed arch windows facing south illuminate the interior of the choir. From the choir an ogival façade arch leads into the nave , which has two further ogive windows on the south side and an entrance gate on the north and west sides. In the western part of the building is a wooden organ empore with stairs.

A special feature of the church are the painted wooden ceilings of the choir and nave, which consist of simple longitudinal boards with interposed strips. The moldings were richly decorated with stencil painting and tapes . In addition to simple geometric latticework , fish-bubble tracery , delicate rosettes and tendrils with flowers dominate the appearance. The characteristic of the small-scale painting points to the foothills of the Gothic around 1500. The high altar is a late Gothic winged altar with a central shrine, predella and blown top . The lamentation of Christ is shown . The altar, completed in 1521, was replaced in 1741 by a new creation by the Judenburg sculptor Balthasar Brandstätter. The walls of the church are adorned with figures of saints and passion pictures.

Power place

Joseph Schnedlitz, who runs a restaurant in Krakauhintermühlen, has worked with a geomancy expert on a project that identifies the church as one of over 60 power places in the Styrian Krakow.

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Ulrich am Hollerberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrichskircherl on Hollerberg. (No longer available online.) Bergfex.at , archived from the original on September 2, 2016 ; accessed on August 16, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bergfex.at
  2. ↑ a b c Hartmut Heidinger: Alpine history in a nutshell: The Styrian Krakau. Bergsteigerdörfer ( ÖAV ), Innsbruck 2013, pp. 20–22. Download link
  3. ↑ ULRICHSKIRCHE: WHEN KNIGHTS BUILD CHURCHES. Holzwelt Murau , accessed on August 18, 2016 .
  4. ^ The parish of Krakauebene. Krakow Municipality , accessed August 18, 2016 .
  5. ↑ a b Herwig Ebner & Inge Woisetschläger-Mayer: The art monuments of the judicial district of Murau. Austrian Art Topography 35, Schroll, Vienna 1964, pp. 83–87.
  6. ↑ Heidinger, p. 104.

Coordinates: 47 ° 11 ′ 35.6 ″  N , 13 ° 58 ′ 56.6 ″  E