Pilgrimage Church of Maria Buch
The pilgrimage church Maria Buch is located in the Kirchweiler Maria Buch at the foot of the Liechtensteinberg in the market town of Weißkirchen in Styria in the Murtal district in Styria . The Roman Catholic pilgrimage church , consecrated on the feast of the Assumption of Mary , belongs to the Judenburg deanery in the Graz-Seckau diocese . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
A church was documented in 1074. The construction of today's church was mentioned in 1455. In 1480 damage occurred in the war with the Turks. The tower was built between 1509 and 1524. In 1753 a curate beneficiary was founded. Until 1773 the church was looked after by Jesuits . From 1968 to 1970 the church was restored.
architecture
The pilgrimage church is surrounded by a cemetery with an old wall, partly retaining wall.
The wide high hall church has pillars, services and arches made of ashlar stone from Maria-Bucher-Kalksinter. The church shows triple stepped buttresses all around, placed over a corner in the middle part, with pinnacles at the top. The tracery has been removed from the Gothic pointed arch windows and there are baroque window bars. The gable roof is above a surrounding coffee cornice with a painted frieze band. The church has three Gothic ogival profiled portals, the north and south portals are divided by a central post, tracery tympanum, the doors are baroque. There is a baroque roof over the crypt on two columns.
The multi-storey, richly formed west tower consists of ashlar stones and is dated 1509 above the portal. Further dates marking the construction progress are given in 1511, 1513, 1518, 1522 and at the top 1524 Michell Pircher. The upper floor has chamfered corners as well as gables, eyelashes and finials. The sober, narrow bell room has an eight-sided pointed helmet from 1880 with neo-Gothic shapes, the eight-sided stone pointed helmet was removed beforehand. The ogival tower portal is flanked by half-set octagonal pillars, which end in niche consoles, the niches are empty. The tower hall, today a confessional chapel, has a loop rib vault with plaster ribs. In the southern corner of the tower to the nave there is a stair tower.
The retracted two-bay choir has a five-eighth end and a ribbed vault on slightly retracted struts with presented circular services, a circular service includes a rectangular sacrament niche. There is a crypt under the end of the choir. To the south of the choir is a sacristy extension with an oratory on the upper floor, built around 1720/1730. Opposite the oratorio windows on the north inner wall of the choir there are two high oval stucco fields from 1680/1690 with the simultaneously embedded oil paintings of Holy Change and Christ as a Blood Fountain.
The front arch between the choir and the nave is barely pronounced. The three-aisled, three-and-a-half-bay hall church has a central nave the width of the choir and narrow side aisles and has continuous ribbed vaults with brick ribs on four octagonal pillars with four round services. In the western half yoke there is a gallery in all three naves on a close-meshed ribbed vault, in the central nave with broken four-pass parapets, the side parapets have a baroque field division. The keel-arched vestry portal and the rectangular gallery portal have iron doors.
In the eastern yoke vault of the north nave is a wall painting with the inscription Ruprecht, underneath a house sign with 1515. In the choir, a remnant of a wall painting shows a head.
A chapel in the cemetery wall was built around 1727. The chapel has a curved volute gable and a wrought iron door and an altar composed of baroque parts.
Furnishing
The mighty high altar, which fills the end of the choir, gives the year 1651. The high altar has columns entwined with grapevines, cartilage ornamentation and remarkable statues, probably late works by the sculptor Michael Hönel with the assistance of Sebastian Mass. The carpenter work is by Balthasar Khienberger, the central canopy and the tabernacle as rococo show a silver-plated belt work from the third quarter of the 18th century. Under the canopy there is a late Gothic statue of Our Lady around 1480 with attached baroque parts. A wrought-iron baroque communion grille runs around the altar.
The narrow, high side altars have twisted columns and wrought iron bars in front of them: the Anna altar was documented in 1695 by a sculptor from Graz, the Sebastian altar was documented in 1702 by Franz Camerlander.
The pulpit from the second quarter of the 18th century bears an angel with a cross by Balthasar Prandtstätter ; the angels holding the heart in the choir are also from him.
A larger than life late Gothic crucifix from around 1510 has neo-Gothic assistance figures from the end of the 19th century. The angels on the nave pillars were probably created by Johann Nischlwitzer in the third quarter of the 18th century.
The organ was built by Friedrich Wagner (1853). Hans Mitter mentions a bell with reliefs in 1454.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) 1982 . Maria Buch, former community of Maria Buch-Feistritz, pilgrimage church of the Assumption of Mary, with floor plan, pp. 275–277.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 9 ′ 14.21 " N , 14 ° 42 ′ 18.24" E