Filial church Pöham

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Filial church Pöham
Majolica relief by Leo Miller

The Filialkirche Mariä Himmelfahrt is a Roman Catholic church in the village of Pöham in the Fritztal , in the municipality of Bischofshofen in the district of St. Johann im Pongau in the state of Salzburg . The church is opposite the elementary school directly on the main road in Pöham.

Pre- and building history

Today's Pöham only had a small wooden court chapel at the Brandstattlehen (Brandstätter). Tradition reports that it was built as a votive church for a treasure find in the garden. Around 1743 to 1746, another wooden chapel was built by the Brandstätt farmer Konrad Quehenberger on the site of today's church, at what will later become the Dichtlwirt , and served as a house of prayer for the few farmers in Unterfritz. These two chapels are said to have existed next to each other for over a hundred years. The Black Madonna of Pöham , which led to a local pilgrimage, also comes from one of these two chapels .

In 1928 the already dilapidated Brandstätt chapel was demolished and a simple new stone church was built according to a design by the architect Paul Geppert (the elder) . The church was consecrated on October 24, 1929. The image of grace had meanwhile passed into the possession of a Pfarrwerfen family, who, however, handed it over to the new church at the request of the Pöhamer.

Originally the whole area with Kreuzberg , Winkl and Alpfahrt belonged to the parish of Werfen ( dean's office Altenmarkt ), the new church became a branch church of Pfarrwerfen, but its own parish council was set up. She is looked after by the Steyler Missionshaus St. Rupert am Kreuzberg at the entrance to the valley.

The church was enlarged and renovated in 1949/1950 by a larger sacristy . The interior was restored in 1973, followed by another in 2009, in which the seating and windows were also replaced.

  • Filial church Pöham

  • Altar with the Black Madonna by Pöham

  • Left side window

  • Right side window

  • Baroque organ from the former Stuppach Palace

Structural and interior

The church building has a rectangular nave with arched and rectangular windows under a gable roof with a turret. The retracted somewhat lower choir with a straight end has a two-storey extension to the east. The single-room space has a pillar in the West empore . The round-arched triumphal arch leads to the single-bay choir under a round-arched barrel. The building is a successful mixture of historicizing and modern, factual design language, without any romanticism.

On the facade there is a crucifixion relief made of glazed clay by the sculptor Leo Miller . Below that, in large letters, the Bible quotation “Come to me, all of you who are troublesome and burdensome” ( Mt 11:28  EU ). The six glass windows come from the Graz artist couple Wolf, they were originally intended for the Steyler Missionshaus St. Severin, built in 1931 in Fürstenfeld in eastern Styria, and were acquired for Pöham after it was closed.

In contrast to the structural features, the inventory is old and relatively closed in baroque style from the 18th century. The high altar comes from the Hallein school sisters , for whom it adorned the house chapel. On the altar is the votive figure of the Mother of God with Child , the Black Madonna of Pöham , a Loretta Madonna . On the side the baroque console figures are hll. Peter and Paul . Above it, as an extract from the altar, is the carving of the Holy Trinity , God the Father , Holy Spirit and Baby Jesus in the halo of the apse. In the niches of the choir arch are St. Theresa of Avila and the Madonna of Fatima . On the right side altar is a figure of the Sacred Heart , on the left St. Joseph . The late baroque console figures also come from the former Brandstätt chapel, St. Sebastian and Christ on the scourge column , as well as six statuettes, some without attributes, are carried by the gallery parapet.

The organ, which is also baroque, was transferred here from the former Stuppach Castle near Gloggnitz in Lower Austria.

proof

  1. ↑ a b Carmen Wieland (arrangement): Chronicle of Pöham . August 2012, The oldest buildings in our town: What the Brandstättkapelle tells us , p. 7 (pdf, vs-poeham.pfarrwerfen.at - excerpts from various chronicles, with numerous illustrations).
  2. ^ Kurt Klein  (edit.): Historical local dictionary . Statistical documentation on population and settlement history. Ed .: Vienna Institute of Demography [VID] d. Austrian Academy of Sciences . Salzburg , former Parish Werfen (Pfarrwerfen) , p. 70 ( online document , explanations . Suppl . ; both PDF - oD [updated]).
  3. ↑ Filialkirche Pöham , pfarrwerfen.salzburg.at> Church and Religion
  4. ↑ The Steyler missionaries moved to the Laßnitzhöhe near Graz in 1991

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Coordinates: 47 ° 25 ′ 49.6 ″  N , 13 ° 15 ′ 26.2 ″  E