Special story
Special story
Legend of St. Veit: The young Christian is thrown into a cauldron with boiling oil and, according to tradition, emerges unharmed - martyrdom around 304/305.
Presumption of a pre-Christian cult site: There may have been a cult site for the Slavic god of light 'Svantevit' on the site of the church; The old place name 'Gabriach' was replaced by 'St. Veit ob Graz replaced.
800th anniversary 1226–2026: The occasion was the rediscovery of the mention of a pastor of St. Veit in 1226 in a manuscript in Rein Abbey.
The stained glass window 'Dancing Christ' by Josef Fink in the funeral hall shows a modern dance of death as a symbol of the fact that death makes all people equal.
South of the church lies the grave of the music poet Anselm Hüttenbrenner (1794–1868), a friend of Franz Schubert.
The parish includes the Maria Schutz branch church in Kalkleiten, built between 1960 and 1962, with concrete-glass windows based on designs by Alfred Wickenburg and Franz Felber.
Presumption of a pre-Christian cult site: There may have been a cult site for the Slavic god of light 'Svantevit' on the site of the church; The old place name 'Gabriach' was replaced by 'St. Veit ob Graz replaced.
800th anniversary 1226–2026: The occasion was the rediscovery of the mention of a pastor of St. Veit in 1226 in a manuscript in Rein Abbey.
The stained glass window 'Dancing Christ' by Josef Fink in the funeral hall shows a modern dance of death as a symbol of the fact that death makes all people equal.
South of the church lies the grave of the music poet Anselm Hüttenbrenner (1794–1868), a friend of Franz Schubert.
The parish includes the Maria Schutz branch church in Kalkleiten, built between 1960 and 1962, with concrete-glass windows based on designs by Alfred Wickenburg and Franz Felber.