Pilgrimage Church Maria Straßengel

The Pilgrimage Church Maria Straßengel is a fourteenth century Gothic church located on a hill overlooking the market city of Judendorf-Straßengel in the district of Graz-Umgebung, a few kilometres northwest of Graz, Austria on the right bank of the Mur river. The city changed into first referred to inside the 12 months AD 860 as Strazinolum. The fourteenth century Gothic pilgrimage church become constructed between 1346 and 1355, and consists of an important high altar.

Once surrounded through fortified walls and protected by way of a 3-story tower with complicated stonemasonry, the church nonetheless keeps 77 sections of its fourteenth century Gothic stained-glass windows. The original plans for the high altar in white marble had been initially drawn by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach in 1687 but never performed. The pilgrimage church consists of a piece of tree root fashioned like Jesus at the pass. This root is not exhibited to the general public, but shown to people on request.