Pilgrimage church on Frauenberg near Leibnitz
The pilgrimage church on Frauenberg near Leibnitz is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage church on Frauenberg in the cadastral community of Seggauberg above the city of Leibnitz . It is incorporated into the parish of Leibnitz as a branch church.
Location
The church is located on a ridge south of Seggau Castle . It has been settled since pre-Roman times, with individual archaeological traces pointing to prehistoric times. At the beginning of the 1950s, the remains of a Celtic - Roman temple of Isis Noreia were uncovered during excavations . The pilgrimage church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is located on a plateau below the area known as the "Temple Mount".
History and architecture
The first documentary mention took place in 1170, the foundation of a chaplaincy in 1335. At the end of the 15th century a late Gothic church was built instead of a chapel. After a fire in 1604, it was renovated under Bishop Martin Brenner and consecrated in 1609. In 1645 and 1646 the church was extended to the west and the tower was built into the facade; the builder was Bartholomäus Montianus from Milan. The baroque interior of the church was possibly made in 1766 by Johann Fuchs . In the 19th and 20th centuries there were repeated renovation and restoration activities. The sacred building is surrounded by a walled cemetery.
Two tower floors are still preserved from the originally Gothic building. The church has a two- bay nave , a single-bay choir with flat-domed vaults on pressed basket arch straps . The pillars have rococo capitals. There are also buttresses in the interior of the church, the west gallery rests on two columns. Both portals in the west facade are dated "1646". The sacristy with the oratory above is located north of the choir. In 1645 the three-story tower was added in the northwest corner. There are two Gothic pointed arch windows on the second floor. The third floor was added in 1687/88 by the Leibnitz master builder Jakob Schmerlaib; the spire with onion and lantern is from 1835.
literature
- Kurt Woisetschläger, Peter Krenn (Ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . Schroll, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-7031-0532-1 , p. 109 .
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Individual evidence
Coordinates: 46 ° 46 ′ 28.3 " N , 15 ° 31 ′ 26.9" E