Filial church hl. Nicholas in Torren

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Filial church of St. Nicholas

The pilgrimage church of St. Nikolaus in Torren is located in the Torren district of the municipality of Golling im Tennengau in the province of Salzburg . It is a Roman Catholic branch church of the Golling parish and stands on a conglomerate rock at the entrance to the Weißenbachtal. The patron saint festival is on 6 December , the St. Nicholas , committed.

history

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The name Torren appears for the first time in a document when Archbishop Konrad I donated a forest near Kuchl to the cathedral chapter in 1139 . The first documented mention of a church St. Nicola containing the water in Kuchler parish comes from 1444. It was probably a very small place of worship where St. Nikolaus revered, because the existing Gothic church was not completed until 1515 , which was then consecrated on October 18, 1517 by Bishop Berthold Pürstinger of the Chiemsee diocese . In 1723 a new tower was built.

There is evidence of a prehistoric settlement on the rock. Excavations from 1978 made it possible to secure finds from the Hallstatt period; these are kept in the Museum Burg Golling .

Construction

Entrance portal

The simple late Gothic nave with a polygonal finish has ogival chamfered windows. The walls were built from conglomerate and rubble stones. The tower with a base and three ogival entrances is facing the west facade. It has arched sound windows and a double-onion helmet with a lantern inserted between them. To the north of the tower there is a small late Gothic rectangular window in the nave facade. In the north of the nave there are single-storey extensions under a pent roof. To the east is the barrel-vaulted sacristy with beveled Gothic windows. In the west is a cross-rib vaulted room with a chamfered segment arch portal with a northern access to the polygonal outer pulpit. This is from 1677 and has its own hipped roof. The late Gothic west portal to the groin vaulted tower hall has multiple grooves in profile. The outermost portal arch with side capitals is barred.

The nave and the choir (not drawn in) in the same width are vaulted with a net rib configuration with an octagonal star on circular services. In the choir, the eight-pointed star arrangement has heraldic shields. The vaults are labeled 1517, 1629, 1724, 1965. The one-bay west gallery after 1517 is arched under with a ribbed vault on two pillars and consoles and has a kinked tracery parapet made of cast stone.

Furnishing

The high altar with the two sacrificial portals

The high altar from 1715 comes from the Hallein sculptor Johann Georg Mohr. The altarpiece of St. Nicholas frees a captive child and the image of St. The painter Franz Anton Heillmair painted Walk with God the Father and the Holy Spirit in the first half of the 18th century. The side console figures above the sacrificial passage portals St. Joachim and Anna Selbdritt were created by the sculptor Johann Georg Mohr (1715), the tabernacle is from 1744.

The left side altar shows the altar sheet Baptism of Christ by the painter Johann Weiß  (1759) and the picture Kuchl Church (?) With a Mariahilf medallion in the same frame. The right side altar shows the altar sheet St. Elisabeth by the painter Jakob Schemberger from the middle of the 18th century. There is an icon of Mary of the Hodegetria type in a frame around 1780.

The pulpit from 1728 was built by the carpenter Franz Haizander with imitation of pyrography. The gallery has a parapet in the style of the Danube Gothic, here there are series of pictures of the seven refuge and the fourteen helpers in need .

Pilgrimage

Outer pulpit

The marble outer pulpit indicates large pilgrimages with sermons in the open air. Pilgrimage motifs were, in particular, protection from the dangers of water and protection from diseases of domestic animals. The numerous votive pictures inside show that the church was once a popular pilgrimage church . One votive picture depicts an unfortunate horse, other pictures show miraculous scenes of St. Nicholas. One of the pictures, it dates from 1688, is in the Salzburg Cathedral Museum .

The church is only open on certain festive days and is used in particular for weddings.

Organ positive

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On the west gallery there is a positive , it is the oldest still playable organ instrument in the federal state of Salzburg, which, however , had stood in the parish and pilgrimage church of Dürrnberg for almost 250 years . It apparently dates from 1613 and was probably created by Leopold Rotenburger . Among other things, it was repaired in 1636 by the later famous organ builder Johann Geisler, who built the Great Court Organ in Lucerne in 1640 . Curiously, it was once restored in 1760 by Lorenz Rosenegger , the builder of the mechanical theater in Hellbrunn . The instrument had to be brought to Hallein, to Lorenz Rosenegger, and back to the Dürrnberg by Thomas Weiß (perhaps a brother of the painter Johann Weiß , who painted the left side altarpiece in 1759). He left a note in the instrument on which it was written in Latin : Lorenz Rosenegger, arithmetic master on Mount Torren, neither a mechanic nor an organist, willingly restored this very desolate organ from the ground up in 1760. At the age of 52 .
On March 5, 1859, a “Fräulein” donated 52 guilders and 50 kreuzers to the Gollingen pastor so that he could buy the organ, actually a positive, for Torren. In 1860 the priest Franz de Paula Högl paid for the instrument, whereupon it was fetched from the Dürrnberg and placed in the pilgrimage church of St. Nikolaus.
The old organ that had been before 1860 in St. Nikola wanted to sell pastor Högl and use the proceeds to a chasuble purchase. It remains unknown whether his plan could be realized.
The positive was extensively restored in 1994 by master organ builder Romano H. Zölss ( Frankenau , AUT ). The pitch is 455.7 Hz, so it is between the chamber and cornett tones .

Disposition:

Manual : (45 keys C – c 3 , short octave )
Coppel 8 ′ (wood, covered)
flute 4 ′ (wood, open)
Principal 2 ′ (approx. 1 in the brochure)
Quint 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ (repeated at f 2 )
Octav 1 ′ (repeated at c 2 )

literature

Web links

Commons : Filialkirche St. Nikolaus in Torren  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Austrian art topography 20 : The monuments of the political district Hallein (ÖKT 20), ed. from the Art History Institute of the Federal Monuments Office, Vienna / Augsburg / Cologne 1927, p. 253.
  2. ^ Dehio Salzburg , Vienna 1986, p. 450.
  3. ↑ P. Korbinian Birnbacher u. a .: Pilgrimage churches . A guide to the pilgrimage churches in the EuRegio Salzburg - Berchtesgadener Land - Traunstein, ed. by Gabriele Posch for EuRegio Salzburg - Berchtesgadener Land - Traunstein, Berchtesgaden 2007, p. 85.
  4. ^ Johannes Neuhardt : Pilgrimages in the Archdiocese of Salzburg , Munich and Zurich 1982, p. 83.
  5. ↑ Gustav Gugitz : Austria's Places of Grace in Cult and Custom , Volume 5, Vienna 1958, p. 213.
  6. ^ Dehio Salzburg, Vienna 1986, p. 450.
  7. ↑ Hans Geißler, organ maker, earns 2 guilders if he has renovated and tuned the shelf or positive in the church . In: Pfarrarchiv Dürrnberg: Older parish history, written by GR Josef Lackner 1949–1970 , Volume 1, p. 34. Quoted from: Roman Schmeißner: Orgelbau in Salzburger Wallfahrtskirchen , p. 23 and 33.
  8. ^ Roman Schmeißner: Organ building in Salzburg pilgrimage churches, p. 24f.
  9. ^ Laurentius Rosenegger Promptus Aritmeticus in Monte Turano, nec non Mechanicus, et Organiarius hoc valde destructum Organum â Fundamentis Restauravit Anno 1760. Aetatis mea 52 Annorum . In: Romano H. Zölss : Report on our restoration work on the organ positive in the Roman Catholic. Filial church St. Nikolaus zu Torren, Gem. Golling, Slbg. , Frankenau (Burgenland) 1994, p. 5. Quoted from: Roman Schmeißner: Orgelbau in Salzburger Wallfahrtskirchen , p. 25 and 322.
  10. ↑ See: List of Pastors in Golling , accessed on January 13, 2016.
  11. ^ Roman Schmeißner: Organ building in Salzburg pilgrimage churches, p. 322f.
  12. ↑ [...] Is the current organ in St. Nicola very small, u. without passport register, etc. more suitable for a chapel than for a church, […] Could another church pastoral office, e. B. a mess dress to be purchased . In: AES : Golling, box 6, compartment 104, fascicle 4, copy from Oeconomica 6/102 (Golling, March 7, 1860). Quoted from: Roman Schmeißner: Orgelbau in Salzburger Wallfahrtskirchen , p. 323.
  13. ^ Romano H. Zölss : Report on our restoration work on the organ positive in the Roman Catholic. Filialkirche St. Nikolaus zu Torren, Gem.Golling, Slbg., Frankenau (Burgenland) 1994, p. 4. Quoted from: Roman Schmeißner: Orgelbau in Salzburger Wallfahrtskirchen , p. 358.

Coordinates: 47 ° 36 '10 "  N , 13 ° 8' 41.8"  E