14-Nothelven Church Anger

Name: 14-Nothelven Church Anger
Address: Oberfeistritz 455, Oberfeistritz, Oststeiermark, 8184, AT
Telephone: +43 3175 2368

Anger

Patronage of St. Florian and St. Patritz

The Filial and Pilgrimage Church to the 14 Helpers in Anger is the most important pilgrimage church in the upper Feistritz Valley. The building history of the church represents the highlights of the pilgrimage to this place of worship.

Gothic portals remind us of the oldest part of the church, which, based on the dating, was built around 1517 and in this respect can be seen in a line with Hofkirchen and Blaindorf. The choice of the patron saint makes clear the worries and needs of the population at that time - the 14 emergency helpers offer, as it were, the largest possible circle of spiritual helpers in all situations of life. On the old foundations, the nave was at least partially rebuilt in 1633. The striking bell tower followed in 1683 according to plans by Jakob Schmerlaib and has its almost equally old counterpart in the bell tower of the nearby parish church of Koglhof. Finally, the construction of the altar area followed in the form of the Dreikonchenlösung (cloverleaf ground plan) between 1714 and 1719 under the direction of the Pöllau master builder Remigius Horner.

In the bell tower there are two bells, the larger one from 1687, cast by Adam Rostauscher in Graz, the smaller bell cast in 2007 by Grassmayr in Innsbruck.

The extensive catalog of saints in this church thus shows the circle of patron saints, which goes far beyond the already large circle of the 14 emergency helpers. The early baroque organ in the gallery was built by Andreas Schwarz in 1710 and stood in the parish church of Anger until 1740. The current work was installed in the magnificent case by Thomas Jann in 1998.