City parish church of Bruck an der Mur
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The Roman Catholic parish church of Bruck an der Mur is located in the municipality of Bruck an der Mur in Styria . The parish church of the Birth of Mary belongs to the deanery of Bruck an der Mur in the Graz-Seckau diocese . The church and the former cemetery area are under monument protection .
architecture
The parish church stands on the northern edge of the old town. It consists of a former Romanesque nave, which was changed during a late Gothic renovation, has a Gothic choir and a choir tower. The first church was built in the course of the rebuilding of the city around 1272. The choir was consecrated in 1336, and in 1498 the church was elevated to a parish church.
External church building
The nave with masonry from the 13th century is extended to the north like a side aisle with a chapel annex, both under a shared gable roof. To the south, the nave was secured in the 2nd half of the 15th century with non-stepped buttresses with water hammer and plinths, and to the west with buttresses placed over a corner. At the southwest corner is a late Gothic, polygonal stair tower with a shoulder arch portal with a round bar and a valley in the stone walls. The three tower floors are structured by grooved cornices. In the baroque period, the nave received rectangular windows with bars. On the north side are two pointed arch and rectangular windows in late Gothic stone walls. In front of the plain west facade there is an open vestibule with a late Gothic ribbed vault. The high, recessed choir from the 1st third of the 14th century has triple-stepped buttresses with a water hammer. The choir windows with tracery remains are partially walled up. The east-facing, walled-up window has three-lane tracery. To the north of the choir and choir tower is the two-storey sacristy from the 2nd half of the 17th century. The choir tower made of mighty stone masonry stands across the first choir bay in a rectangular manner. It has ogival twin windows on the side. The bell storey is set off with a cornice and has coupled sound windows. The tower roof with octagonal lantern and pointed helmet was put on in 1890 according to a plan by Robert Mikovics . The ground floor was opened to the south through an early Gothic pointed arched portal with a stone wall with a pear rod profile from the beginning of the 14th century.
inner space
- Nave and choir
The four-bay nave has a ribbed vault from the 2nd half of the 15th century. The ribs of the grooved wall pillars run over presented circular services and end in round keystones. The pillars stand on high plinths. In the west yoke there is a three-axis, two-yoke, late Gothic gallery above a ribbed vault on hexagonal pillars with round, sculpted keystones: Christ's head , rosettes , shield and city coat of arms . The connection from the nave to the choir is formed by a retracted, pointed arched triumphal arch, fluted in the course of the arch. The two-bay choir with a five-eighth closure is significantly higher than the nave. It has a ribbed vault with carved keystones: the Lamb of God and rosettes . Pear sticks run from the services, which rest on jagged consoles at the height of the bench. In the north of the choir is a pointed arched, grooved sacristy portal with a remarkable, late Gothic door from 1500 with filigree, ornamental wrought iron fittings. In the diamond fields formed by the iron bands, cut and chased tendril and tracery fillings are bound over formerly colored leather. The glass painting in the choir with Art Nouveau ornamentation and the depiction of adoring angels was created in 1914 by Ludwig von Kurz zum Thurn and Goldenstein (design) and Ferdinand Koller (execution).
- Side chapel and sacristy
The six-bay side chapel is a narrow, elongated room on the north side of the nave. It has a groin vault, probably originally with ribs. The portal in the west of the chapel has a straight lintel in relief on corbels with a wall with a round bar profile. In the lintel are three heraldic shields with maker's mark and house mark, rosettes and griffin claw, dated 1464. In the adjoining room of the west portal is a foliage console with heraldic shield and three rosettes. The wall painting Adoration of the Kings in the first yoke of the side chapel was painted over several times from the 16th to the 18th century. The three-bay sacristy with eight-part ridge vaults is from the 2nd half of the 17th century.
Furnishing
- Nave and choir
The classical high altar with an altar sheet of the Birth of the Virgin Mary by Matthias Schiffer (1807) from the beginning of the 19th century is built into the end of the choir. The figures on the side are Saints John the Baptist and Joseph. The tabernacle is from the beginning of the 19th century, the two side altars from the 3rd quarter of the 18th century. The left side altar shows the altar sheet Maria Immaculata by Philipp Carl Laubmann from 1731 and the statues of Saints Agnes and Apollonia. The right side altar shows Laubmann's Last Supper from 1751 with the statues of Saints Barbara and Catherine. There are two wall altars from 1755. The left wall altar shows the altar sheet Sorrowful Heart Maria von Laubmann 1750, in the upper picture Saint Laurentius and the statues of Saint Andrew and Matthew, in the excerpt two angel figures from the 17th century and the statuette of an apostle from the late 15th century. The right wall altar shows the altar sheet Herz Jesu, in the upper picture the baptism of Christ, the statues of Saint Nicholas and Wolfgang, in the excerpt two angel figures and the statuette of a holy bishop from the 17th century.
The classical pulpit from the beginning of the 19th century has allegorical figures of the three divine virtues on the basket. The statues of Saints Florian and Sebastian on the triumphal arch are from the beginning of the 19th century. The statue of St. Johannes Nepomuk on the right nave pillar is from the middle of the 18th century. On the north wall of the nave is a former altarpiece of the Birth of Mary by Ioannes J. Terzanus Comenis from 1647. There is a canvas painting of Christ on the Mount of Olives from the 3rd quarter of the 18th century. The pew cheeks are from the 1st half of the 18th century. The twelve-sided, late Gothic font is from the end of the 15th century and has an essay from the end of the 18th century. There is a hexagonal sacrificial stone and the rest of a stone lavabo, dated 1563.
The gallery parapet and the organ front are from the beginning of the 19th century. There is a bell from 1794.
- Side chapel
On the altar from around 1800 there is a late Gothic crucifix from the mid-15th century and the classical statues of Mary and John. On the right in a niche is a Pietà (made of cast stone) from the 1st quarter of the 15th century and two heads of processional poles with the statuettes of Saints Joseph and Rochus from the 2nd half of the 18th century. There are canvas prints of Ecce Homo and the Carrying of the Cross from the 17th century, the Last Supper from the end of the 18th century.
- Tombstones
On the north side of the choir is a gravestone by Caspar Myrer, dated 1759, and a coat of arms gravestone by Franz Ignaz Marchovitsch, died 1676. On the south side of the choir there is a hexagonal coat of arms epitaph for Duke Ernst von Eisernen, who died in Bruck in 1424, and the coat of arms gravestones of Balthasar Siega, who died 1673, and Michael Holzaphl, died 1508. In the side chapel there is a coat of arms tombstone by Vinzenz Freimut from the 16th century.
literature
- Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) 1982 , Bruck an der Mur, Stadtpfarrkirche Mariä Geburt, p. 51ff.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 24 '38.7 " N , 15 ° 16' 5.4" E