Capuchin Church

Name: Capuchin Church
Address: Grazer Str. 19, Murau, Murau, 8850, AT
Telephone: +43 3532 2489

Murau

Gothic architecture
The parish of Murau is characterized by its five historically valuable churches, as well as by its various forms of worship. Around 250 volunteers, who are invited once a year to the staff party, testify to a lively parish life: everyone contributes according to their own talents.

The Capuchin Church was founded in 1645 together with the monastery by Count Georg Ludwig zu Schwarzenberg, as the monks had been called to Murau in the course of the Counter-Reformation. Two side chapels and a rectangular choir adjoin the simple barrel-vaulted church interior. To the right of the entrance to the Loreto Chapel is the grave slab of Anna Neumann, created in 1624 by Philibert Pocabello. The adjoining monastery with a small cloister no longer serves the order, but is largely used as a handicraft museum, since the monastery was closed in 1968.In 1974 the church moved from the Schwarzenberg property to the parish Murau as a branch church.

In 1991 the church received a thorough interior renovation, with the high altar being moved 3.5 m to the north and a new people's altar erected. Since 2004 the sounds of a new organ built by Triebendorfer organ builder Walter Vonbank have been playing, which is also used by the music school as a practice instrument for organ students.