Branch church Untereching
The Roman Catholic branch church Untereching is located in the district of the same name in the municipality of Sankt Georgen bei Salzburg in the Salzburg-Umgebung district of the State of Salzburg (Emeranweg 9). It is the only church in the Archdiocese of Salzburg dedicated to St. Emmeram is dedicated. The patronage is celebrated on September 22nd .
history
The church was consecrated on May 4th (= Florianitag ) 1413, probably by Silvester Pflieger , who later became the bishop of Chiemsee . In 1443 the Lords of Nopping founded a mass in honor of St. Haymeran , d. H. of St. Emmeran . In 1473 a women's foundation was established in Untereching. The Lords of Almb set up an anniversary foundation here in 1485 . In 1676 portraits of Sankt Emmeram and Sankt Leonhard were acquired for the church. In 1682/83, the carpenter Ruep Lex, the sculptor Wolfgang Weissenkirchner and the barrel painter Magdalena Rottmayr created the baroque high altar. In 1694 the Margaret altar was created by the carpenter Franz Lang from Laufen an der Salzach , painter Wolfgang Weissenkirchner and barrel painter Martin Schaumberger. From 1695 comes a ten-table series of pictures about the life and suffering of St. Emmeram. Georg Peischer built a new pulpit in 1750 as an executive artist, an arm with a crucifix is attached to its curved parapet. In the course of refurbishing the church in 1774, the main altar was moved to the side church of St. Koloman in Lebenau . The new altar was designed by the carpenter Wolf Schauer, the sculptor Georg Izfelder and the painters Franz Xaver König and Josef Rieger.
Based on the existing votive pictures, it can be assumed that the church served as a pilgrimage destination . Chicken offerings are said to have been offered in the church. High wire grids behind the altar were used to accommodate the living animals.
Until 1962, a so-called Easter ride with washing and consecration of the horses was carried out on Easter Tuesday . Because of the agreement of horses as work animals, this custom had to be stopped.
In 1977 the Augenbründl Chapel at the foot of the western slope to the church was torn down, the water is said to have helped against eye diseases (a legend reports that the spring dried up when the sacristan tried to sell the water for money).
Pilgrimage
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The pilgrimage may only have been local. Pilgrimage motifs were Fraisen and epilepsy, eye problems, the health of pets and farm animals, especially horses, and protection from water and weather damage. Live sacrifices (black chickens) were placed behind the high altar in a walkway to be carried around the altar during mass .
Legend of the Augenbründl
The legend derives the considerable fortune that the church once had from a miraculous healing spring that gushed behind the high altar. A self-interested sacristan would have misused it as a source of income for himself, which is why it almost dried up and only flows weakly and without healing power at the Schachen on the churchyard wall .
Cult objects
Statue of St. Emmeram as Bishop (1676), statue of St. Leonhard (1676), depicted as an abbot with a bishop's cap, with a staff and chain in his right hand, the left he has placed on a white horse. Statue of St. Margaret with the worm , who was invoked by the faithful as an advocate against pests in agriculture and labor. Statue and an image of St. Nepomuk , a patron saint for the dangers posed by water. To St. Apollonia recall three images.
In addition, the church had a spring sanctuary, the water of the well helped with eye ailments and should protect against blindness.
Votive
Votives were u. a. live animals, namely black chickens that were locked in a crate behind the high altar . In 1958 there were still over 12 votive pictures preserved, e.g. B. from the years 1660, 1679, 1692, 1696, 1800 etc.
Building history
This late Gothic pillar church is built from unplastered conglomerate blocks. Half of the tower is built into the west side. This has a detached baroque bell storey with four arched sound windows. The clapboard onion helmet with the tower cross dates from 1655. On the south wall there is an extension with a Lourdes chapel from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. One with an original sacristy cupboard , a sink and a clothes rack equipped sacristy on the south side of the choir has been retrofitted. A sundial painted in 1664 by Karl Castenauer from Tittmoning , which was renewed in 1912, is installed above the east window of the sacristy . The nave, choir and tower are surrounded by a circumferential Gothic base with a profiled cornice. The old bells were removed for war purposes in February 1942 and melted down. Four new bells were consecrated on July 2, 1961.
The church building is typical of the late Gothic . The single nave nave has a star vault , the choir has a ribbed vault . The interior is from the Baroque period . The church door of the south portal, with its strong iron fittings, was loaned to the Carolino Augusteum Museum for the Late Gothic exhibition in Salzburg .
In 1656 the sacristan's house was built. There are two old lecture flags with which the pilgrims were once received. One shows the picture of St. Leonhard, the other that of St. Emmeram.
In 1822 the church was given a pent roof with shingle roofing; this is supported in its eastern extension by eight marble columns. In 1968 the church was affected by a fire. As a result, the church roof was re-shuttered and covered with Eternit; In place of the former weathercock , a new one was installed above the choir.
In the course of the renovation in 1970, valuable pictures and statues were lost (the cross-roads in the Nazarene style were given to a community in Natal , the statue of St. Apollonia disappeared). Another renovation took place in 2004/5.
The statues of St. Emmeram (from 1676) and St. Leonhard (with a horse) that once adorned the main altar are now attached to the side wall. In the left side altar is the statue of St. Margaret . There is also a statue and an image of St. Nepomuk , a patron saint for the dangers posed by the water. Three oil paintings commemorate St. Apollonia, and her statue was probably stolen in 2004. On the side altars there are figures of St. Erasmus , St. Florian and St. John Bap. A portable Holy Madonna and Child clad in silk robes from the 18th century refers to a baroque procession.
The large crucifix hanging from the triumphal arch with five cherub heads at the beam ends dates from the end of the 17th century.
organ
The organ was created in 1877 by Johann Nepomuk Carl Mauracher , the organ consecration took place on Sunday, January 6th, 1878 . A fortnight earlier, on December 23, it had been approved by Alois Kainzner, teacher and organist at St. Pantaleon .
Disposition
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literature
- Roman Catholic parish St. Georgen near Salzburg (ed.): Festschrift Church Untereching. 600 years: 1413-2013. Printing house of the Archdiocese of Salzburg: St. Georgen 2013.
- Roswitha Preiß: Johann Georg Itzlfeldner 1704 / 05–1790 . A sculptor of the Salzburg Rococo in Bavaria. Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 1983. ISBN 387437 160 3
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ However, Engelmar Chrel and not Silvester Pflieger is attested as bishop of Chiemsee in 1413 and is also active as auxiliary bishop in Salzburg. This error can probably be traced back to an earlier chronicler, the priest Ludwig Heilmayr, who wrote a story about the Deanery Parish of St. Georgen near Oberndorf in 1897 .
- ↑ Side church St. Koloman in der Lebenau ( memento of the original from June 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Chicken sacrifice at St. Veit in Schwaz
- ^ Johannes Neuhardt : Pilgrimages in the Archdiocese of Salzburg , Munich and Zurich 1982, p. 104.
- ↑ Gustav Gugitz : Austria's Places of Grace in Cult and Custom , Vienna 1958, Volume 5, p. 213.
- ↑ Gustav Gugitz: Austria's Places of Grace in Cult and Custom , Vienna 1958, Volume 5, p. 213.
- ↑ digitized version
Coordinates: 47 ° 58 '34.2 " N , 12 ° 52' 52.3" E