Deanery parish church Saalfelden
The Roman Catholic parish church of Saalfelden , consecrated to hll. Johannes Bap. and Johannes Ev. , is located in the city center of Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer ( Land Salzburg ) at 744 meters above sea level, the patronage will be celebrated on June 24th . It is a neo-Romanesque building that was rebuilt in a neoclassical style in the 1960s. It is the mother parish of the Upper and Middle Pinzgau .
History
Saalfelden is one of the oldest places in the Archdiocese of Salzburg. In 788 this was first mentioned in a document as Saalavelda in the list of goods by Bishop Arn ( Indiculus Arnonis ) . The two current church patrons also prove an early missionary work in the area around the current location of the deanery parish church. In 955 the place was in the hands of the Salzburg archbishops. Around the year 1000 a church appears for the first time near Saalfelden, which the noble Dietmar owned. According to historical tradition, he and Archbishop Hartwig (991-1023) exchanged his Saalfelden church with the church in Palmberg in Bavaria . In the 11th or 12th century, parish institutes were established in the Archdiocese of Salzburg , which in addition to Sankt Martin bei Lofer , Stuhlfelden , Piesendorf and Taxenbach also included Saalfelden. The parish of Saalfelden also had significant influence from the Chiemsee bishops .
Building history
Wooden church (church 1)
The first Catholic church in Saalfelden was a private church owned by the Noble Dietmar, probably from his father, the Count Dietmar, received him. It had to be a wooden structure. Further records about this church are not yet included.
Romanesque and Gothic stone church (Church 2)
When the parish came into the possession of Archbishop Hartwig , the wooden church was converted into a Romanesque stone church. Filial churches in Maria Alm , Dienten , Gerling and Leogang have been handed down. When excavation and renovation work took place in 1966, a church could be dated back to the Romanesque period . In addition, a mighty tower foundation came to light, which was enclosed in the church. When the Gothic came , the church was increasingly "Gothicized" as it fell victim to several fires.
Neighboring Rock Church (Church 3)
In 1811 the Gothic building, consecrated to the Holy Spirit , fell together with the market. In the course of the clearing up work, the vault of the nave collapsed , only the vault of the presbytery remained. Two years later the destroyed church was demolished and new pillars were built on its foundations for a nave, which was given a vaulted roof. The tower still preserved received today's tent roof pyramid. The church had a so-called post-baroque interior, which soon became unpopular. The organ case in this version, made by Karl Mauracher and with the figurative decoration by Johann Haid from St. Johann (1836), has been preserved, s. u.
Neo-Romanesque basilica (Church 4)
A re-Romanization was carried out between 1858 and 1861. The church was supposedly in a neglected condition, which is why the Munich architect Georg Schneider (1828–1897) was commissioned to design and redesign the plans for a neo-Romanesque basilica. The cost of Romanizing the church was 78,755 florins.
Neoclassical Church (today's church)
In 1956 the deanery parish church was redesigned again. The neo-Romanesque furniture was removed. What remained are the Way of the Cross and the picture of John the Baptist by Sebastian Stief hanging in the south aisle, as well as the baptismal font . The figures of the diocesan patrons Rupert and Virgil , which were carved in 1859 and are located in the back of the nave, and the statues of the church patrons, which are in the front of the nave, were also kept. They were designed by Joseph Haid (1833). Furthermore, the formwork vault was removed and a wooden tram ceiling was installed. The tower masonry, which was completely damaged by the fire, was encased in conglomerate slabs.
The sculptor Jakob Adlhart contributed significantly to the design of the new deanery parish church . He constructed the larger than life crucifix , the figures of the side altars (Mary and Holy Family) and the eight statues that are on protruding ledges on the nave pillars. The north and south stained glass windows above the side exits were made by the Tyrolean glass painter Josef Widmoser (1911–1991). The northern window shows the Last Supper , while the eight Beatitudes can be seen in the southern window .
The last renovation, which was completed in 2000, is described as successful: new benches based on the old ones were purchased, the double gallery was removed so that the restored Mauracher organ could be moved to the lower one, the colored glass windows in the central nave were replaced by white Glass windows replaced, and the people's altar was placed on a lower altar island.
In the baptistery there is still the only preserved, late Gothic winged altar that was restored from 2001 to 2003 and was assembled from parts that did not match. The altar shows pictures from the life of Mary. Since 2006 is in the deanery parish church from the Salzburg Cathedral native people's altar , which was decorated with numerous relief carvings of Jacob Adlhart.
organ
The organ was built in 1832 by the organ builder Karl Mauracher in the baroque style and framed the later walled-up west window next to the tower, above the window was the chronogram FA V STE E X STR VC TA L A VD ES E DI TE D EO I N 'SAE CVL A ( you happily erected [pipes] , brings forth the praise of God in eternity ) and resulted in 1832. In the course of the complex re-Romanization of the church, Johann Nepomuk Carl Mauracher was commissioned in 1859 to rebuild his father's organ and put it in to set up a neo-Romanesque housing . The old housing was placed on the Dürrnberg . In 1995 the instrument, which had meanwhile been refurbished and rebuilt several times, was restored for the last time and partially reconstructed. Today it has 20 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.
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Dimensions
Today's deanery parish church is enormous. The nave measures 54.5 meters. The maximum width is about 25 meters. The interior is about 20 meters high. The tower with the tent roof measures around 60 meters and is one of the highest towers in Salzburg, along with the church towers in Maria Alm (83 meters), Rauris (65 meters) and St. Johann im Pongau (62 meters) .
Bells
The west tower houses a large five-part bell. The bells were purchased in 1949 by the Oberascher bell foundry from Salzburg-Kasern . All bells are rung with a clapper .
| No. | Surname | Casting year | Foundry, casting location |
Diameter (cm) |
Weight (kg) |
Nominal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Homecoming bell | 1949 |
Oberascher , Salzburg barracks |
185 | 3,475 | A 0 +0 |
| 2 | Fallen Bell | 1949 |
Oberascher , Salzburg barracks |
157 | 2,077 | c 1 +0 |
| 3 | Marienbell | 1949 |
Oberascher , Salzburg barracks |
124 | 1,041 | e 1 +0 |
| 4th | Measuring bell | 1949 |
Oberascher , Salzburg barracks |
104 | 618 | g 1 +0 |
| 5 | Death bell | 1949 |
Oberascher , Salzburg barracks |
93 | 439 | a 1 +0 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Austrian art topography 25 : The monuments of the political district of Zell am See (ÖKT 25), ed. from the Art History Institute of the Federal Monuments Office, Baden near Vienna 1933, p. 146f.
- ^ Deanery parish church in Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .
- ↑ V + X + V + C + L + V + D + D + I + D + I + C + V + L. ( 5 + 10 + 5 + 100 + 50 + 5 + 500 + 500 + 1+ 500 + 1 + 100 + 5 + 50 = 1832 ).
- ^ Roman Schmeißner: Organ building in Salzburg pilgrimage churches . WiKu-Verlag, Duisburg & Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-86553-446-0 . P. 27ff.
- ↑ Information on the organ ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Deanery Parish Church Saalfelden , pfarre-saalfelden.at → History
Coordinates: 47 ° 25 ′ 37.9 ″ N , 12 ° 50 ′ 55.5 ″ E