Filial church St. Georg am Georgenberg

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North view of the branch church with the sacristy annex to the choir and the two broad pillars on the nave (2011)

The branch church of St. Georg am Georgenberg is located on the Georgenberg , an island mountain in the Salzach Valley, in the municipality of Kuchl in the state of Salzburg . The mountain itself is a natural monument .

History of the Georgenberg

The Georgenberg has been secured as a settlement area from the Neolithic to the late Iron Age (4500–1800 BC) through the discovery of tools and utensils. As 15 BC BC the Salzburg area was incorporated into the Roman Empire , it is explained that Cuculle is shown as a post office or rest stop in the Tabula Peutingeriana .

It is not entirely certain to what extent the castellum Cucullis mentioned in the Vita Severini relates to a fortified settlement on the Georgenberg. However, Roman finds were made here.

After the conquest of the Bavarians , the Agilolfinger Duke Theodo II gave the Locum Cucullos to the Salzburg diocese around 700 . An Ottonian church building from around 1000 AD was excavated in 1966, this corresponds to the naming of a county in the Kuchl valley ( pagus Chuchala ). The Counts of Plain must be seen as the builders of a fortification on the Georgenberg; Remnants of this medieval complex have also been secured. Archbishop Eberhard II approved his burgrave Wernher von Lengenfeld in 1238 that he could hand over his church near his Vrimos tower to the St. Peter monastery . This Freimoos is north of the Georgenberg on the old Roman road.

History of the branch church St. Georg

A first early Christian predecessor church from the 5th century was excavated in the Georgskirche in 1962/63. A second Ottonian predecessor building is planned for 10/11. Century assumed. On the inner west wall of the church at the level of the organ loft, a remains of a Romanesque fresco was discovered, which presumably points to the 12th or 13th century. The church was mentioned in a document in 1243. The tower was rebuilt in 1882.

During the pilgrimage to St. George's Church, prayers are made for the cattle to thrive. Every year on April 23 there is a ride around the church. On Georgi Day , around 30 wooden figures of animals that are otherwise kept in a box are carried around the altar for a fee and sacrificed. Only a few pieces seem to be older, most of them are modern, mostly primitive toy figures from the present.

architecture

The church is a late Gothic single-nave building with a west tower. The simple exterior has a circumferential base, a circumferential Gothic cove and a shingle gable roof. On the north wall of the nave are two broad, clapboard-clad supporting pillars. The choir of unplastered conglomerate blocks, slightly indented to the south, has a polygonal end and a stepped buttress in the south. The church has tall rectangular windows, only on the south side of the nave. In the southwest there is an exposed late Gothic tracery window wall. The chamfered arched portal has a wooden door from the 17th century. On the south wall of the nave there is an outer pulpit made of marble on two consoles with a shingle roof from 1649. The undivided tower made of conglomerate rock was built in front of the west gable wall. On the groin-vaulted ground floor it has three arched openings, arched sound windows and a shingle-pointed helmet, which is pulled down over the sloping corners. In the north, in the second half of the 17th century, a single-storey sacristy was added under a pent roof.

The three-bay - essentially Romanesque - nave originally had a flat ceiling, the remains of which can still be seen above the current vault. The nave was vaulted with a late Gothic four-diamond vault on wall pillars as well as upstream round services with a base and round capital and shield-shaped keystones. The pointed triumphal arch is chamfered. The late Gothic two-bay choir with five-eighth closure has the vault configuration of the nave. The sacristy portal with door is from the 2nd half of the 17th century. The sacristy with a flat ceiling includes the stairs to the pulpit.

The late Gothic three-aisled, two-storey west gallery in the first nave yoke has a star rib vault on four free-standing and marginal half-columns made of marble with a base and capital. The gallery has a remarkable tracery parapet made of artificial stone. The stairway to the gallery is in the south. From the gallery there is access to the outer pulpit through a round arch portal and access to the tower through a chamfered rectangular portal.

Furnishing

The baroque high altar from 1716 and the side altars from 1719 were created by the carver Johann Pfister. The high altar has a cafeteria with an ornamentally decorated leather pendulum. The figures of St. Georg, Rupert and Virgil were created by the sculptor Johann Georg Mohr . The upper image of St. Michael painted Simon Jakob Lamberti. The side altars show the weather saints John and Paul by Simon Jakob Lamberti (1719). The canteen antependums show the death of Mary and St. Georg by the painter Tobias Köpl (1704). The late Gothic relief of the Death of the Virgin around 1500, which was formerly integrated into the left side altar, is in the Salzburg Cathedral Museum . The right side altar carried the figures of St. Rupert and Virgil around 1500 (in safekeeping).

The pulpit with a polygonal marble basket on a six-sided column with base and ring capital from the 17th century has a sound cover by Johann Pfister (1698). A crucifixion group with the figures of Mary and John around 1500 is in custody. Individual images of the fourteen helpers in need and St. Rupert and Virgil are from the 1st half of the 18th century. The Stations of the Cross are from 1848. An offering box with the tin sign St. Georg is from 1700. The benches were made around 1719.

The organ was built by Adam Müller (1837).

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Coordinates: 47 ° 38 ′ 6 "  N , 13 ° 9 ′ 34.7"  E