Astätt branch church

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Branch church of John the Baptist
Interior view, view of the choir
Ceiling fresco beheading John the Baptist

The Astätt branch church is located in the Astätt district of the municipality of Lochen am See in Upper Austria and is the hll. Johann Bap. and Johann Ev. consecrated, the patronage is celebrated on St. John's Sunday (June 24th).

history

Astätt is attested as the seat of the judge from upper Weilhart in the 8th century; also the patronage of St. John the Baptist indicates the early existence of a church. In 1565, during the Reformation , the Protestant pastor Georg Grärockh worked here. Even after that, pastors from Astätt occasionally referred to themselves as "pastors".

The ceiling painting in the nave, painted over in 1918/19 and exposed again in 1989, shows the beheading of John the Baptist .

Furnishing

The church is a single-nave stone building with pointed arched windows, a roof turret and an attached sacristy . The typical late Gothic forms of a country church in this area can be seen on the outside. In the interior of the church, most of the Gothic vault ribs were chipped off. Today a flat ceiling spans the nave . The choir vault is decorated with stucco from the early Rococo . The main altar was built around 1710 in the vicinity of Meinrad Guggenbichler . The two outer figures depict Saints John and Paul as weather saints with the attributes of sun and clouds . The middle group of the altar is made up of John the Baptist and John the Evangelist . In the essay there are St. Anthony of Padua with the baby Jesus , right and left the saints Anna and Joachim (grandparents of Jesus). The side altars are from 1678.

Organ positive

J. Chr. Egedacher- positive, ~ 1710

Johann Nepomuk Carl Mauracher expanded the positive from the Sacellum ( Salzburg ) and passed it to the church in Astätt, on January 15, 1868 he received 140 guilders for it .

literature

  • Reinhard Weidl: Punch - Gebertsham - Astätt , pp. 16-19. Salzburger Druckerei (Christian Art Centers Austria, No. 145): Salzburg, 1985.

Notes and individual references

  1. ^ For example, a letter dated February 26, 1615 is signed "Melchior War, Can. Mattiensis et pastor in Astet".
  2. ↑ To the organ builder Joh. Nep. Mauracher for the transferred organ with 4 registers (from the Sacellum) 140 fl.
  3. ↑ [...] from the teacher training institute ("Sacellum") in Salzburg [...]; Rupert Gottfried Frieberger : Organ building in Upper Austria in the 17th and 18th centuries. Innsbruck 1984, p. 212 and note p. 396: Questionnaire from the monument authorities 1939 or 1944 .

Web links

Commons : Filialkirche Astätt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 34.6 ″  N , 13 ° 9 ′ 18.9 ″  E