St. Lambrecht Collegiate Church
The Roman Catholic collegiate church of St. Lambrecht is structurally linked to the St. Lambrecht monastery in the market town of Sankt Lambrecht in the Murau district in Styria . The monastery church and parish church , consecrated to St. Lambert , belongs to the dean's office in Murau in the diocese of Graz-Seckau . The church and the entire Benedictine monastery are under monument protection .
history
Nothing is known about the Romanesque foundation building. Under the abbot Udalrich (1124–1148) the church building was enlarged and probably consecrated in 1160. After a fire in 1262 the church was consecrated again in 1265. In 1327 the Romanesque collegiate church collapsed. From the Romanesque three-aisled basilica with two west towers, the nave walls up to the eighth pair of pillars and the two west towers up to the height of the tower clocks have been preserved. The foundations of the Romanesque east end were excavated in 1928. Like the Gothic choir, the Romanesque choir began with the triumphal arch in the sixth stronger pair of pillars and was closed off by round apses in the north nave at the level of the eighth and in the central nave at the level of the tenth pair of pillars.
The new Gothic building dragged on until 1421 with the consecration of the lay church (nave). Nykolaus, who died in 1359 with “conversus istus loci magister operis”, “Meister Syghard”, who died in 1381, and “Magister Ulricus lapicida huius loci”, who died in 1405, are documented as builders and foremen. According to the dates of consecration of the altars, work was first carried out on the two yokes east of the triumphal arch. The rood screen and, as in Seckau Abbey, the vaulted gallery were completed around 1346. Work on the nave began in 1359. The monk's church (choir) was last built under Abbot David Krall (1376-1387), see also the inscription 1386 on the tenth northern buttress, and under his successor Rudolf Liechtenegger (1387-1419).
The collegiate church and monastery were damaged by fire in 1471, with the glass windows shattered and the bells melted. In 1726 a baroque Joseph chapel was added to the north side of the collegiate church on the seventh yoke.
Under the abbot Benedikt Pierin (1638–1662) and the builder Domenico Sciassia, the baroque style of the collegiate church began. In 1639/1640 the west gallery was built and the rood screen was removed; in 1641/1645 the west facade was baroque and redesigned and the floor level in the church was increased by 30 cm.
In 1897/1898 there was a restoration. In 1974/1976 two Romanesque portals and some Gothic frescoes were uncovered during an interior restoration.
Building
The simple west facade, which was baroque in 1641/1645 as a two-tower facade, has bulbs with lanterns. The niche statues of the west portal show Saints Martin and Nicholas from the end of the 17th century. The top relief, the Annunciation , was created by the sculptor Peter Neuböck (1905). The outer portal was designed by Domenico Sciassia. The portal bears a Lamberti statue from 1640, probably by the sculptor Adam Niederl. The inner Romanesque portal was exposed in 1975 and partly extends into the baroque gallery zone. Furthermore, a Romanesque corner pillar of the vestibule and a well-preserved simultaneous Romanesque south portal in the cloister on the side of the monastery were uncovered. The south portal has a tympanum with a relief of the Lamb of God and in the capital zone two lions with human figures between their paws. Both Romanesque portals were built in the second half of the 12th century.
The mighty three-aisled, twelve-bay Gothic hall church with a seven-twelfth cap is 78 m long, 20 m wide and 16 m high. The church has cross-ribbed vaults with pear-shaped ribs and round keystones. The pillars are different, eight-sided in the nave, the two adjoining rood screen pillars are eight-sided at the bottom and bundled pillars at the top, the choir pillars are continuous bundle pillars. The three eastern yokes are increased by three levels. The two- and three-lane tracery windows were partly renewed after the fire in 1471 and provided with fish bubble ornaments, the window behind the high altar still has the original tracery. In 1905/1906 the windows were given glasses from Tyrolean stained glass. The church with several stepped buttresses shows numerous stonemason's marks.
The baroque west gallery from 1439/1640 is vaulted under the cross ridge with paintings from 1641/1643 by Melchior Mayr and a coat of arms by Abbot Benedikt 1643, the painting shows Isaac's sacrificial path, Jacob's ladder and the virtues. The central nave gallery received a protruding wooden parapet around 1720 and shows angels making music in the image fields. The baroque Joseph's chapel attached to the north has a groin vault.
Wall paintings were uncovered and restored in 1974/1976: Solomon’s throne on the north wall from the third third of the 14th century, with a rich architectural structure over three floors, Solomon enthroned below, Mother of God above, Christ above. - St. Agnes on the south wall, partly exposed earlier, was probably created at the same time. - Christophorus as a monumental fresco towards the end of the 14th century, probably by an artist from Northern Italy. - In the lower part, the Christophorus picture was partly displaced with three poorly preserved pictures of cross nailing, crucifixion and descent from the cross from the first half of the 16th century. Next to it is a Gothic window reveal with a fine tendril ornament from the beginning of the 16th century.
The west portal
The west gallery
Facility
The high altar, a three-storey shrine -Altar stucco marble was completed in 1632 by Valentin Khautt. The lower altarpiece shows the Assumption of Mary based on Peter Paul Rubens . The assistant figures are Saint Benedict on the left and Scholastica on the right. The picture above shows the Coronation of Mary. It is flanked by statues of John the Baptist on the left and St. Emperor Heinrich II right. The top picture shows St. Lambert. The figures are the apostles Peter and Paul . The essay group depicts the fall of Lucifer by the Archangel Michael .
In the north aisle to the left of the high altar is the Benedict Altar, a two-storey aedicula altar with many figures and a blown gable, created by Christoph Paumgartner in 1638. To the right of the high altar, in the south aisle, is the Emmeram altar , the figures and reliefs of which were created by Michael Hönel.
In the south aisle there is a baptismal font from the 16th century with a neo-Gothic lid.
The Benedict Altar
The Lady Chapel on the north side
Baroque choir stalls with abbot's throne in the choir
Baptismal font
organ
The organ of the collegiate church was built in 2003 by the organ building company Manufacture d'Orgues Luxembourgeoise Georges Westenfelder. The instrument has 40 registers on three manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.
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Picture gallery of the collegiate church
Chancel with high altar from 1632
Altar in the left aisle
Altar in the right aisle
View from the main nave towards the left aisle
Christophorus fresco in the right aisle
Baroque pulpit
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) 1982 . St. Lambrecht, Benedictine abbey, collegiate church, with floor plan, sacristy, collegiate building, pp. 445–451.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Benedikt Plank : Benedictine Abbey of St. Lambrecht . History Association for Carinthia Bulletin I / 2015. Ed. History Association for Carinthia, Klagenfurt, pp. 19–26.
- ↑ Information about the organ on the website of the organ builder
Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 19.92 " N , 14 ° 18 ′ 2.47" E