Ortisei am Ulrichsberg

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The Church in June 2011
The chancel of the church

The Church of St. Ulrich am Ulrichsberg is a Roman Catholic branch church in the municipality of Deutschlandsberg in Styria . Its history goes back to the first half of the 12th century. Today it is subordinate to the parish of Deutschlandsberg .

Location

The church is located in the cadastral community of Hörbing am Ulrichsberg 8, which belongs to Deutschlandsberg . It was originally consecrated to St. Mark , the founder of the Patriarchate of Aquileia and the patron of the Republic of Venice .

history

The basics of the church complex originate from the Bavarian colonization in the 10th century. In 1998, on the forecourt of the church, the remains of an approximately 100 × 100 m² large facility were discovered, which was interpreted as the courtyard of a derelict castle, including a fountain that was shut down in the 12th century. This well is provided with shaft-like passages at its bottom, the material with which the well shaft was filled came partly from the 10th century. A concrete ceiling allows the site to be preserved and further explored. The place of discovery is associated with the Nidrinhof , which is mentioned in a document from the Ottonian period in 970. The church is first mentioned in 1313 (or 1144). Whether a farm in Ortisei near her arose out of the Nidrinhof (where it was located) or whether it was an independent farm (perhaps only for a short time) (an upper court compared to the lower Nidrinhof) seen differently in literature. From 1401 the farm was probably a farm.

The church was built before 1136 by the Bavarian noble family Kelzen. From 1136 the former own church was a branch church of the parish Groß Sankt Florian , it remained a branch church of Groß St. Florian even from 1786 after the expansion of the parish of Deutschlandsberg at that time on the intervention of the Florian pastor. It was not until 1883 that it became a branch of the Deutschlandsberg parish under Dean August Bossi. While it was subordinate to the parish of Groß Sankt Florian, it became a popular pilgrimage church and received papal indulgences several times. In the years after the Second World War, the dilapidated church was restored and consecrated again in 1967. A general renovation took place between 1996 and 1988 and the interior furnishings were restored in 2000.

In honor of the original patron, St. Martin, a prayer procession (St. Mark's procession) from Deutschlandsberg to the church is held around April 25th (Catholic name day of this saint).

description

The full figure of Baron von Maylegg on the outer wall of the nave

The core of the church is Gothic . It was redesigned in the baroque era . The three-storey tower with a tent roof is located in the northern corner of the choir. In the outer wall of the tower is a Roman stone from the 2nd / 3rd. Walled in in the 18th century, showing the bust of a married couple. The exterior of the tower is structured by painted pilasters , the nave by painted double pilasters. On the outer wall of the nave is a full figure of Johann Freiherr von Maylegg, who died in 1626. There is also a Roman stone on the tower with half-length portraits of the Calandinus couple from the 2nd or 3rd century. The inscription on the stone reads: "Publius Albinus Calendinus erected this monument to himself and his 40-year-old wife Silvia Ursula during their lifetime."

The wide, three-bay nave , like the single-bay Gothic choir with a three-eighth ceiling, is spanned by a cross vault sitting on flat basket-belt arches. This is supported in the nave by flat wall pillars with simple capitals and in the choir by stepped, Gothic buttresses. Between choir and nave is the constricted and scrolls to the basket arch widened Fronbogen . The nave has rectangular windows. In the west of the nave there is a three-axis gallery sitting on pillars .

The altar front of the high altar was painted by Philipp Carl Laubmann in 1759 . Like the tabernacle , the two niche statues of Saints Mark and Ulrich date from 1759. The two side altars consecrated to Saints Maria and Antonius the Hermit have statues designed in the style of Marx Schokotnigg and were erected at the beginning of the 18th century. The pulpit dates from the middle of the 18th century. The apostle crosses and the sacrament niche are Gothic. There are also several tombstones inside the church, one of which shows a relief representation of the crucified and a knee figure from the middle of the 17th century.

The church as such is under monument protection (ObjectID 3338f1 ), its property and area of ​​the surrounding area form another monument protection object as "Remains of the early and high medieval fortifications on Ulrichsberg" ( ObjectID 131539f1 ).

literature

  • Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 112 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bundesdenkmalamt: Find reports from Austria. Volume 37, year 1998. Vienna 1999. Page 49.
  2. ↑ Manfred Lehner: The early castle on the Deutschlandsberger Ulrichsberg (KG Hörbing, SG and VB Deutschlandsberg, West Styria) . In: Contributions to medieval archeology in Austria (BMÖ). Edited by the Austrian Society for Medieval Archeology. ISSN  1011-0062 ZDB -ID 805848-9 . Volume 20, 2004. pp. 99–148.
  3. ^ Christoph Gutjahr: Prehistory and Early History and Medieval Archeology. Page 45. In: Helmut-Theobald Müller (ed.), Gernot Peter Obersteiner (overall scientific management): History and topography of the Deutschlandsberg district. ( District topography ). Graz-Deutschlandsberg 2005. ISBN 3-901938-15-X . Styrian Provincial Archives and District Authority Deutschlandsberg 2005. In the series: Great historical regional studies of Styria. Founded by Fritz Posch †. First volume, general part.
  4. ^ Robert Baravalle: Castles and palaces of Styria. An encyclopaedic collection of the Styrian fortifications and properties, which were endowed with various privileges. Graz 1961, Stiasny publishing house. Pp. 87 and 78.
  5. ^ Gerhard Fischer: 140th anniversary of the inauguration of Dechant Bossi and 110th day of death. In: Weststeirische Rundschau. No. 35, year 2014 (August 29, 2014), 87th year, ZDB -ID 2303595-X . Simadruck Aigner u. Weisi, Deutschlandsberg 2014, p. 2.
  6. ↑ a b c Ulrich Church. www.deutschlandsberg.graz-seckau.at, accessed on August 5, 2012 .
  7. ^ Weekly newspaper Weststeirische Rundschau . 84th year 2011 No. 18 from May 6, 2011, page 2.
  8. ↑ a b c Federal Monuments Office (Ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 112 .
  9. ^ Description of the church

Web links

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

Coordinates: 46 ° 48 ′ 49 ″  N , 15 ° 14 ′ 26.9 ″  E