Mühlrain branch church

Shingled north side (2014)

The Filialkirche Mühlrain, northwest of Abtenau on Lammertal Strasse , is a Roman Catholic branch church of the Abtenau parish in the Hallein district in the state of Salzburg . It is consecrated to Our Lady .

history

In 1684, the builder of this church, Achatius Rösch, apostolic protonotary and pastor of Haus im Ennstal , Altenmarkt and Radstadt , asked Edmund I. Sinnhuber , the abbot of St. Peter's Abbey in Salzburg , to build. He had previously acquired the two farms in Ober- and Untermühlrain. In this building application he also immediately reveals the reason for his request: He has "... said two gitlein ... bought for deme so that the same thing at the Orth and in the parish, since I was born ... and there are no branches or chapels anywhere, ... I have chapels built. "The trigger for the construction of the little church should not have been the love of one's homeland, but a vow , because he also writes of:" ... great help from the blessed devotee of God, especially in 1669 in the Pergfall in Salzburg "( During this landslide on the Mönchsbergwand , 13 houses in Gstättengasse in Salzburg were destroyed on the night of July 16, 1669 , including the seminary. 220 people died. However, it is nowhere stated whether Achatius Rösch was present at the natural event .) An epitaph inside the little church commemorates him. He is also buried here.

Today this little church is a popular wedding church. The blueprints for the church, built in 1686, are unsigned, but they are likely to come from Giovanni Antonio Dario .

architecture

The single-aisled baroque church with a polygonal end under a gable roof has a turret with a tent roof. The west portal has a straight lintel with a blown gable with a door from the construction period. The facade in the north is completely shingled. In the north there is a two-storey sacristy with a round stair tower leading to the upper storey of the sacristy and to the pulpit. In the north-west there is a covered staircase to the west gallery with a pent roof.

The image of Mary on the outer wall is the work of P. Hildebrand G. Mayer OSB.

The two-bay, barrel-vaulted nave has a round-arched triumphal arch and behind it a slightly retracted single-bay choir with vaulted concrete and a semicircular end. The ceiling in the nave and choir has baroque stucco mirrors. The sacristy is vaulted on the ground floor and has two square windows to the choir and a flat ceiling with a stucco mirror on the upper floor. The west gallery has two floors.

Furnishing

The church has a uniform equipment from the construction time. Johann Friedrich Pereth painted the high altar picture of Our Lady surrounded by the Lauretanian litany . The side of the altar bears the console figures of Saints Joseph and Achatius. The tabernacle carries a clothed Christ child. A rosary Madonna is on the triumphal arch. The pulpit shows pictures of the four evangelists, Christ as Salvator Mundi and below that a small picture of the Coronation of Mary. The pictures of hll. Archangels Michael and Raphael are from the late 17th century. Further pictures from the 18th century show the crucifixion, a scene with Christ, and Mary with martyrs. There is a choir grille from the construction period.

Andreas Gartner (1688) cast a bell.