Church of the Three Saints (Innsbruck)

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The Church of the Three Saints from the north

The Dreiheiligenkirche is a Catholic parish church in the Dreiheiligen-Schlachthof district of Innsbruck , which was built in 1612/13 as a fulfillment of a pledge in the face of the plague and is consecrated to Saints Sebastian , Pirmin , Rochus and Alexius . It is a listed building .

history

When Innsbruck was hit by the plague in the 17th century, plague chaplain Melchior Köstlan and plague doctor Paul Weinhart convinced  the city fathers and the citizens that only the construction of a new church could stop the plague. On September 21, 1611, the building of a church in honor of the plague patrons Sebastian, Pirmin and Rochus was praised. This was built in the area known at the time as Kohlstatt outside the city walls, where there was a hospital for those suffering from the plague. After the approval of Prince Maximilian III. and the Bishop of Brixen Christoph Andreas von Spaur  , the foundation stone was laid on April 12, 1612. Thanks to generous donations from Maximilian III, the city and the citizens, the building was quickly completed and consecrated on October 13, 1613. The tower was probably built two years later.

From 1745 to 1750 the church was redesigned in the Rococo style. In 1785 the votive painting of St. Alexius transferred from the abandoned Seven Chapel Church, who thus became the fourth patron of the church. From 1860 to 1863 the church was renovated and enlarged. According to plans by Anton Geppert was an lobbies yoke expanded, which also made the redesign of the facade needed. The tower was raised and the wooden shingle roof was replaced by a tile roof.

During the Second World War , the church was damaged by bombs and the ceiling frescoes were damaged by penetrating water. In the 1950s the frescoes and the tower were restored. From 2010 to 2013 the church was extensively renovated inside and out and largely restored to the appearance of 1860. Exactly 400 years after the first consecration, Bishop Manfred Scheuer consecrated  the altar on October 13, 2013 after the restoration of the church was completed.

Originally a benefice, Dreiheiligen became an expositur in 1786 and an independent parish in 1926.

description

Facade mosaic by Philipp Schumacher (1900)

The outer

The three-saints church is oriented to the south, around the drawn-in, three-sided closing choir is the sacristy, in the south-west corner the octagonal tower rises. An arcade has been preserved from the cemetery that used to surround the church.

The neo-Romanesque facade on Dreiheiligenstrasse is richly designed. The mosaic from 1900 shows the four church patrons and above them Mary with the child. It was designed by Philipp Schumacher and executed by the Tyrolean Glass Painting and Mosaic Institute .

Interior

inside view

Inside, the church is a unified, bright hall, which is covered with a flat barrel vault with stitch caps . Pilasters are placed in front of the pillars . The Rocailles stucco and the ceiling frescoes were created in 1750 by Johann Michael Strickner  . The three rococo altars made of stucco marble and the pulpit by Johann Bartlmä Gratl date from the same period . The high altar picture shows the three church patrons, the left side altar picture a Maria Immaculata by Johann Georg Dominikus Grasmair (1747), the right side altar picture the baptism of Jesus by Melchior Stelzle (1614).

literature

Web links

Commons : Dreiheiligenkirche  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Consecration of the altar in the Three Saints Church in Innsbruck , Diocese of Innsbruck
  2. ^ Innsbruck - Church history in the history database of the association "fontes historiae - sources of history"

Coordinates: 47 ° 16 ′ 5.5 ″  N , 11 ° 24 ′ 9.9 ″  E