Buchberg Church

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Buchberg Church (2009)

The branch church of St. Primus und Felizian is a Roman Catholic church in the town of Bischofshofen in the St. Johann im Pongau district in the state of Salzburg . The church, also known as the Buchberg Church, stands free in the village of Kreuzberg on a hill of the Buchberg in the northeast of the city, above the St. Rupert Mission House . In the 11th century there was a castle of the Lords of Pochburgh here , which was destroyed in the 13th century; The Romanesque chapel of the castle was preserved.

architecture

The church is first mentioned in a document in 1370, but is dated to around 1200 because of the exterior frescoes on the south side that were to be added after 1200. A Gothic choir with buttresses was added to the Romanesque chapel in the 14th century .

Gothic fresco above the entrance
Romanesque south portal
Early Gothic pointed arch portal

The undivided, single-aisled, rectangular nave with a Romanesque core has a raised Gothic choir with a polygonal end in the east. The chamfered early Gothic pointed arch portal in the west has a door with Gothic fittings. The Romanesque arched portal in the south has a door with spiral fittings. Above the south portal and interrupted by a Romanesque blind window, there is a Gothic fresco frieze with a Maria lactans , flanked by the saints. Primus and Felizian , on the right the crucifixion with Maria and Johannes can be seen and to the side the St. Katharina and Margaretha, everything from the 1st half of the 14th century. Below is the fresco Crucifixion around 1300. At the choir are two-tiered buttresses and pointed arch windows with partly Gothic tracery. In the north there is a circular window and a covered tower staircase. To the north of the choir is the tower with cornices and a shingled pyramid roof from the Gothic construction phase. The bell storey has pilasters and bifor and trifor windows with columns. To the south of the choir is the single-storey sacristy under a pent roof from 1750.

Interior

The undivided rectangular hall has a flat coffered ceiling from 1641. The wooden gallery has carved parapet beams. Behind the chamfered, pointed triumphal arch, the retracted single -bay choir begins with a five-eighth end with a cross-ribbed vault on belt arches and a round keystone. Here ribs rise partly from ring consoles. On the left is a head console. On the left in the choir is a grooved round arch portal with a Gothic iron plate door to the groin-vaulted tower ground floor. On the right in the choir is a segmented arch niche and the passage to the sacristy. The stucco ceiling shows the miraculous image of Maria Plain , surrounded by angel heads. There is a stucco lava niche from around 1750. The high altar from 1645 shows the two church patrons, in the predella we see the child murder in Bethlehem, in the altar extract God the Father. The pulpit with barrel saw work dates from 1642 and was probably made by Konrad Schwarz. In the church there are several Gothic and Baroque figures of saints, u. a. a late Gothic pietà .

South of the church is the horse market, first mentioned in 1421 (today the parking lot), which was moved to Werfen in the mid-19th century .

literature

  • Catholic rectory in Bischofshofen: The churches of Bischofshofen , pp. 35 - 40 (= Austrian Christian Art Centers, No. 580). Publishing house St. Peter, Salzburg 2016.

Web links

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Coordinates: 47 ° 25 ′ 37 ″  N , 13 ° 13 ′ 55.2 ″  E