Pilgrimage Church Maria Straßengel

The Pilgrimage Church Maria Straßengel (German: Wallfahrtskirche Maria Straßengel) is a fourteenth century Gothic church located on a hill overlooking the market town of Judendorf-Straßengel in the district of Graz-Umgebung, a few kilometres northwest of Graz, Austria on the right bank of the Mur river.[1] The town was first mentioned in the year AD 860 as Strazinolum.[1]

Pilgrimage Church Maria Straßengel

The fourteenth century Gothic pilgrimage church was constructed between 1346 and 1355, and contains an important high altar.[1] Once surrounded by fortified walls and guarded by a three-story tower (1355–66) with elaborate stonemasonry, the church still retains 77 sections of its fourteenth century Gothic stained-glass windows.[1] The original plans for the high altar in white marble (1885) were originally drawn by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach in 1687 but never carried out.[2] The pilgrimage church contains a piece of tree root shaped like Jesus on the cross. This root is not displayed to the public, but shown to people on request.

  • Church exterior
  • Church tower
  • West portal
  • West portal tympanum
  • Church interior
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References
  1. "Judendorf-Straßengel". Encyclopedia of Austria. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
  2. Aurenhammer, Hans (1973). J. B. Fischer von Erlach. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. p. 184. ISBN 9780713904406.


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