Filial church St. Margarethen (Bad Vigaun)
The branch church of St. Margaretha is a Roman Catholic church in the Kirchweiler St. Margarethen in the north of the Bad Vigaun community in the Hallein district in the state of Salzburg . The church is a listed building .
history
The single-nave, Gothic church building with an old enclosure wall was built in the 1st half of the 15th century and was first mentioned in a document in 1437. The church was renovated in 1597 under Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau . A restoration took place in 1977.
architecture
The nave and choir of the church share a gable roof with a circumferential, grooved eaves cornice. A round stair tower with a conical roof is integrated into the facade of the first southern yoke. The sacristy extension in the north is Gothic, the one in the south is from 1909. In the west and south of the nave and choir, the facade has a base. On the nave and choir there are three-tiered buttresses, some of which are placed over a corner. The choir has a polygonal ending. The north side has no windows. The tracery of the pointed arch windows in the south and east is from 1909. The window at the end of the choir is walled up. The multi-grooved, pointed arch portal in the western gable facade dates from the middle of the 15th century. In the tympanum it shows the relief of St. Margaretha. To the right and left of the portal are a Gothic, rectangular, chamfered window. Above the portal is a round window with tracery from 1909. The gable field is separated by a coffin cornice. A gable rider with a pointed tent roof sits above the gable. On the gable facade is a marble outer pulpit, marked 1679, with a baroque canopy on four wooden supports with an ornamental baroque painting on the wooden vault.
The four-bay church interior with a five-eighth end is vaulted with a uniform, late Gothic ribbed vault on pillars with round services with base and capital. The keystones show the dates 1597, 1643, 1671, 1804, 1909. In the third yoke of the north wall, a grooved pointed arch portal with a Gothic door leads to the barrel-vaulted Gothic sacristy. In the first yoke of the south wall, a Gothic pointed arch portal leads to the stair tower with a spiral staircase. In the third yoke of the south wall, a round arch portal leads to the flat-roofed sacristy from 1909. The west gallery is in the first yoke.
The stained glass windows with the saints Notburga, Elisabeth, Heinrich, Florian are from 1909.
Furnishing
The high altar from 1725 was created by the carver Josef Krimpacher. The altarpiece from around 1600 shows the crucifixion of Christ. It comes from the parish church Bad Vigaun . The upper picture of God the Father and the Holy Spirit was painted in 1725 by the painter Josef Högler. The side console figures of Saints Margaretha and Magdalena and the top figures of Saints Catherine and Barbara and in the middle of St. Michael were created by the sculptor Johann Georg Mohr .
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Salzburg 1986 , St. Margarethen in the municipality of Vigaun, Filialkirche hl. Margaretha, chapel on the access road to the branch church, Bruderloch chapel, Kellerbauer farm, p. 363–365.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 40 ′ 30 " N , 13 ° 7 ′ 48.8" E