Branch church Oberdrum

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The Oberdrum branch church is a Roman Catholic church in the village of Oberdrum , municipality of Oberlienz (East Tyrol). The church goes back to a previous Romanesque building and has Gothic and Baroque elements. The branch church is dedicated to St. George .

history

The first documented mention of the branch church comes from 1308 in connection with the donation to several churches. Excavations carried out in 1994 date the previous building of the church, which was designed as an apsidal hall , to the 9th to 10th centuries. The building could go back to a Romanesque landowner who donated the church as a burial place. After the original structure was probably destroyed by fire, the church was rebuilt in the 12th or 13th century. The church was rebuilt as an apse hall, the nave of which was vaulted in the Gothic style.

Originally the branch church Oberdrum probably had parish rights, which is also indicated by the preserved cemetery enclosure. In the church itself, the presbytery was built in the 15th or 16th century instead of the original apse , as can be seen from the preserved Gothic buttresses. The church tower , however, was only built in the 16th century. After the middle of the 17th century, the interior of the branch church was significantly redesigned. A new vault with stucco ribs was drawn in during the construction work. In addition, the altar was made Baroque in the 1670s, while the frescoing of the interior could date from 1761. In 1781 there was a fire in the tower, which was followed by a renovation. In addition, the church has been renovated several times over the centuries, with the baroque onion dome being regotified in 1906/07.

Building

Building structure

The Oberdrum branch church is a single-nave , four-bay church with a rectangular floor plan. The entrance to the branch church is in the east and is made possible by an open vestibule attached to the front. Opposite it is the retracted, two-bay choir with a 3/8 end to the east . Since the gable wall in the area of ​​the vestibule was left unplastered, the Romanesque masonry is visible. In addition, during renovation work in 1995, a fresco depicting the crucifix with Mary and John from around 1300 was uncovered. The vestibule itself is protected by a shingle-covered pent roof.

The long walls of the nave are pierced by tall, narrow arched windows. The church tower , which houses the sacristy on the ground floor , was also added to the north longitudinal wall . The tower itself is not divided, but has a frescoed, diamond-block-like stone frame and can be accessed via a wooden staircase leading to the upper floor. The ogival sound windows of the tower are closed by wooden blinds, above which there is a clock in each of the gable fields with three-pass windows above . While the nave is protected by a gable roof with dormer windows, the tower has an eight-sided pointed helmet . Both the roof and the tower spire were covered with pegged larch shingles. The top of the tower's gable was also decorated with gold-plated balls and weather vanes, and a wrought iron cross and a weathercock rise above the top of the tower, in addition to the ball.

Interior decoration

In addition to the high altar, the branch church has two side altars. All three altars received their current appearance apart from minor changes in the course of the Baroque transformation in the last third of the 17th century. The white and gold high altar rises up to the ceiling of the choir and consists of a canteen , twisted, red columns and a steeply rising gable with an extract. A statue of St. George slaying the dragon rises above the extract, while the extract itself contains a medallion painting of St. Lawrence with rust. The altarpiece shows the circumcision of Jesus Christ . The sacrificial passage portals, which are attached to the left and right of the altar and closed by doors, are adorned by statues standing on consoles. The statues represent St. Martin with a goose (left) and St. Dionysius with a severed head (right).

The right side altar was donated by Josef Kammerlander in 1677 and consists of an aedicule with two columns each and a basket-arched gable. The arched altarpiece shows the Madonna and Child on a crescent moon, the excerpt painting God the Father with globe set in a medallion. The extract is crowned by a statue of St. James, to the side of the volute extract there are also small statues of St. Joseph (left) and St. Philip (right).

The left side altar dates from 1678 and was donated by Jakob Baumgartner. The altar consists of two lateral columns with lateral volutes, above which rises a straight, cranked entablature with a steep, blown gable. The extract is executed as a medallion richly decorated with leaves in the form of a wreath, which houses a figure of St. Chrysanth . Above this, a figure of St. Rupert with a barrel rises at the top of the extension . The altarpiece from the 18th century shows St. George slaying a dragon. There are also figural representations of St. Erasmus (left) and St. Nicholas (right) on the pillars .

In addition to the altars, the branch church is also adorned by the richly painted pulpit attached to the north wall of the choir. It bears representations of the four evangelists in round arches. The pictures of the stations of the cross with gilded cartouches date from the second half of the 18th century. Most of the bells from the church were removed in the course of the two world wars; today it has a bell from 1787, a bell from 1922 and two bells from 1950.

literature

  • Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): The art monuments of the political district of Lienz. Part I. District capital Lienz and Lienzer Talboden. Verlag Berger, Horn 2007 ISBN 978-3-85028-446-2 (Austrian Art Topography, Volume LVII)
  • Municipality of Oberlienz (ed.): Oberlienz in the past and present. Oberlienz 1998

Coordinates: 46 ° 51 '0.9 "  N , 12 ° 44' 16.1"  O