Gallspach parish church

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Exterior view
inside view
Before the renovation

The parish church Gallspach is a Roman Catholic church in Gallspach ( Upper Austria ). It was consecrated on December 11, 2005 after it was integrated into the old church (tower and apse ) and preserved old tombstones and epitaphs from the 14th to 19th centuries. Century was built. The Way of the Cross , consisting of 14 bronze sculptures, was designed by the Gallspach sculptor Erwin Burgstaller and inaugurated on February 25, 2007. Church patron is St. Catherine.

The parish story

founding

Gallspach belonged to the extensive parish of Grieskirchen until the 14th century , which had been under the monastery of St. Nikola near Passau since 1075 . On August 19, 1343, Eberhard V. von Wallsee , owner of the fortress and the Burgfriede Gallspach, signed a contract with Provost Wernher von St. Nicola and Pastor Wernhart from St. Martin's Church in Grieskirchen that resolved Gallspach from the mother parish association and the establishment provided for an independent parish . At that time there was already a small church in Gallspach. The Wallsee resident paid 40 pounds of Viennese pfennigs to the pastor of Grieskirchen for the benefits he had received from the Cappelle ze Gailspach . Gallspach was at that time a loose collection of a few courtyards, one of which was in the 12th / 13th century. Century had developed into a noble seat. Such noble seats included chapels , which - primarily due to space - were not located within the walls of such a seat. The newly founded parish was very small and only included the Gallspach castle keep. In the document of 1343 it says that in Gallspach " all those who are in front of the house and the forts and in the market and also in the Burkhfridt are to be parish in Gailspach, they are to be with zeun or with graves there ". The approval of Passau Bishop Gottfried von Weißeneck to found a parish took place the following year. Since the first donation to the parish was recorded on August 10, 1344, the episcopal confirmation is probably before this date.

Wording of the deed of incorporation

“ Wier Wernher, by God's grace, Probst. Wilhalmb Techent and this chapter show Sannd Niclas in front of Stat ze Pazzaw and I Wernhardt show the same parish priests in Grieszkhirchen We forbid and do all those who see and hear the current letter, who are now alive and afterwards will be forced to do so With the entire will and timely advice generally at the time, what we want to do, by increasing the worship service, only ones give with all rights to the noble heir, Herr Eberharten von Waltsee, show the times whether the Ennsz and his heirs the Cappellen ze Gailspach, which because weillent belongs to our parish churches Sannt Merten ze grieszkhirchen in the Markht So, daz sy should not belong to it forever. Against this, the above Mr. Eberhart refuted our pastor sant Merthines khirchen ze and gave a burial forty pounds pfening wienner muenz That's why our aforementioned sannt mertens kuerchen ze Griezkhirchen other guelt vüll mer gesc that the above-mentioned parish priest had in mind from the above-mentioned Cappellen ze Gailspach, as the eltists and the best parishioners said to each certain. The same Cappellen in Gailspach is said to have been favored by a Bishop and Vrlaub fuerbaz Occasionally, all parish rights with grebnus and with other spiritual matters as a whole and even as a in another parish, when the formerly named Herr Eberhart von Waltsee with his aigenthafften good and Ers himself has decided that a pastor should forever sit and sullen also go there alone and be parish also all those who are in front of the house and the forts and for the march and also in the Burkhfridt set up Gailspach, they are with zeun or with graves there, and the pastor at Gailspachze has to take care of them and take care of all spiritual things, as another pastor is supposed to be entitled to. We also forbear that the incumbent Mr. Eberhart von Waltsee is supposed to lend him eternally, and all of his afterkhomben, the same khürchen ze gailspach and other khirs that he has lent from old times. And about the fact and the change when it happened, that is, eternally stuck and broken and unkempt, we give about it to the often-mentioned mr hern Eberharten von Waltsee and all his heirs and investigate here the letter sealed with our eternally attached islands Stuff of warhait. Therefore Mr. Ott von Lanstorff Thumbtechent vnd ​​Chorherr ze Pazzaw and also the heir Herr Gerhoch von Stadeckh Chorherr ze Pazzau are Gezeug.
The certificate is given from Pazzau, since Christ's birth was thirteen hundred years, after that in the forty-third year of the next day after our women's day for the divorce. "

Economic basics

So that the parish, and with it the pastor, could also exist economically, it was given foundations by the founder and his successors . The first of a whole series of such pious donations came from Eberhard V. von Walsee himself. The goods of this foundation were scattered far across the Hausruckviertel in Grieskirchen, Meggenhofen , Peuerbach , St. Marienkirchen , Schönering near Wilhering , Breitbrunn near Hörsching , Hinzenbach and Senftenberg and brought the pastor an income of 8 pounds 5 shillings 5 pfennigs .

In 1354 Heinrich Geymann (Geumann) acquired the castle and church fiefdom Gallspach from Eberhard von Wallsee with reservation of fief. The well-to-do family in the area of Vöcklabruck , Rustorf and Attnang appeared in the 14th century with two large foundations related to the determination of the parish church as a burial site (hereditary burial). Heinrich Geumann († 1363) founded a rectory on December 6, 1358. Heinrich Zott is named as pastor in this context. Heinrich Geymann, who was married to Ehrentraud Zinzendorff, immortalized himself as the builder of the church on his still preserved tombstone: heinrich der gaiman pawt dis gotshaus anno domini MCCCLVVIII . In 1385 his son of the same name († around 1400) donated a grain toe from goods in the Gallspach castle keep, z. B. a fief and a Hube in Niederndorf ( Kirschner Gut and Hechenberger Sölde ). This laid the foundation for the manorial rule of the Gallspach vicarage. The foundation had other reasons on January 6, 1396, in which Veit Annexer on Köppach, together with his wife Elisabeth, dedicated 3 pounds Viennese pfennigs to the parish of Gallspach for an eternal light and an eternal weekly mass for the benefit of Ortolph Geymann, who was slain in a feud . This amount of money was raised through services provided by a Hube in Obergallspach ( Eribelgut ), an estate in Hiering near Schlüßlberg ( Huebmergut ) and an estate at Rewt in the Eberschwang parish .

The Bailiwick

The respective landowner acted as bailiff of the parish Gallspach, for which he was allowed to demand the bailiff service of certain goods, which usually consisted of the Vogthafer and Vogthühnern. Because of the ecclesiastical fief, there were disputes between the brothers Hans and Stephan Geymann at the beginning of the 15th century, which were settled in 1409 through a verdict of the captain ob der Enns. Accordingly, the eldest Geymann exercised the bailiff's rights over the church. This regulation was confirmed in 1432 by Duke Albrecht V. In an inheritance settlement from 1463 between Ortolph, Heinrich, Christoph, Bartholomäus and Stephan Geymann it was about the church fiefdom. According to the agreement, the church fiefdoms should remain in Gallspach, the fiefs should be awarded by the family elder. In terms of content and scope, the Vogteirecht changed at the beginning of the 16th century. Until then, the Geymann exercised extensive spoofing rights ( ius spolii ) on the movable property of a deceased pastor (household effects, books, clothing, treasures). On St. Ursulatag (October 21st) 1500, Hans, Balthasar and Tristant Geymann signed a contract with Pastor Wolfgang Haimbsbach in which they stipulated the exemption of the rectory from all official demands and interventions. In addition, they allowed the pastor to test over half of his property freely, while the other half should go to the Bartholomäus church.

Reformation time

Through family relationships with the Jörgern on Tollet , the Geymann family came into contact with Reformation ideas early on. Wolfgang Jörger's wife Dorothea, who later exchanged letters with Martin Luther , was the older sister of Balthasar Geymann's wife Katharina. After 1522 the Jörger took over the care of the orphaned Geymann children Ortolph, Hanns Heinrich, Anna and Genoveva for two years. During this time the appointment of the first preacher after Tollet, Mag. Michael Stifel (1525) , falls . Over the Bartholomäuskirche in Gallspach, where Johann Schütz worked until 1538, the reigning superior of the Order of St. George knight in Millstatt , Hanns Geumann , watched as bailiff . A visit report from 1544 reports nothing unusual for Gallspach: Wolfgang Leitner now acted as the Catholic pastor, whose services were attended by around 50 communicants. The pastor's income flowed regularly and he ran a medium-sized farm on his parsonage.

It was not until around 1560/65 that Hanns Heinrich Geymann and his successors Hans Christoph, Hans Ortolph and Hans Ludwig Geymann employed Protestant preachers. Stephan Khösinger, Lienhard (Schneider?), Georg Schott (Scotus) and Augustin Kromayer (Krammauer † 1638 in Erfurt ), who had to leave the country in 1624, are known by name. Through the participation of Hans Ortolph Geymann in the Protestant aristocratic uprising against the sovereign (1619/20), the Geymann lost their bailiwick rights over the church. The unoccupied parish became the plaything of the neighbors in the next few years. Gallspach viewed the St. Nikola monastery - with reference to the principle of the mother parish - again as a mere beneficium of the parish of Grieskirchen. However, Rueprecht refused to hand over the temporalia of the parish. Pastor Alexander Kammerer von Meggenhofen even obtained the order to Hans Ludwig Geymann to cede Gallspach to Meggenhofen from Elector Maximilian I of Bavaria, to whom Upper Austria was pledged at the time. Before it came to that, however, the pledge was redeemed by the sovereign in 1628. Until the Geymann left Gallspach (Easter 1633) the church and the rectory remained closed.

Resurrection of the parish

When Tobias Waldberg acquired Gallspach in 1638, he found the parish occupied by a pastor sent by St. Nikola . Karl Zann had already come to Gallspach in 1633, but he resigned that same year. The living conditions in Gallspach after the peasant uprisings in 1626 and 1632 were extremely bad. As a result of the constant billeting of troops, the majority of the citizens were impoverished or had moved out of the market. At least half of all houses were empty in 1634, and many surrounding farms were also not cultivated. Under the parish provisional Anton Köck, the first attempts at registering began in the parish Kürchen Gallspach ad Sanctum Bartholomaeum in 1634/35 . Due to a lack of Catholic priests, foreigners were also used for pastoral care. Mathias Brandlin, who died in 1637 as the first Catholic pastor after Lutheranism in Gallspach in 1637, came from B. from Walt in Swabia . On November 17, 1638, Emperor Ferdinand III. that the right of patronage should again fully fall under the rule of Gallspach, since the new master would offer sufficient guarantee for the continued existence of the Catholic faith. In this certificate of responsibility, a patronage to Saint Catherine (November 25th) is mentioned for the first time. On the previous Bartholomäus-Kirchweihtag (August 24th) one of the four annual markets was still held. In order to finally regain the complete independence of the parish Gallspach von St. Nikola , Waldberg had to lead a lengthy legal dispute with the monastery, which lasted until 1664, before the Passau official on May 15, 1664 announced the provost's final resignation from the parish . The still incumbent pastor Urban Kier, appointed by St. Nikola, should be able to remain in the pastor's position until Tobias Waldberg compensated him financially.

As a result of the Counter Reformation , an orderly parish life was quickly restored. The turn of the population to the Catholic faith led to the renewal of the foundation system in the course of the 17th century. A Corporis Christi brotherhood was also established, to which a St. Franciscus Seraphic brotherhood was supposed to join in 1760. Starting in 1718, a community pilgrimage with a procession to a nearby place of grace was undertaken every year. Relic purchases were also made by the parish, and finally the lord of the castle and patronage, Dr. Augustin von Ehrhardt carried out extensive construction work on the parish church in the choir and sacristy area in 1689. The erection of the Marian column on the main square is attributed to him. In the course of the 18th century, Johann Georg Adam von Hoheneck significantly expanded the Gallspach market by adding the Neumarkt and St. Georgs Gasse. This led to space problems in the small church cemetery, which is why a new churchyard was created from 1771 and the old cemetery was abandoned from 1779.

From the last two centuries

The 19th century was marked by a continuous decline in population. In 1810 there were still 994 inhabitants in Markt Gallspach, in 1907 there were only 629. The manorial rule of the Gallspach rectory ceased to exist in 1848/49. At last she counted 23 subject goods. Necessary church repairs were carried out from 1814 onwards. A new organ was purchased in Salzburg in 1832 and the interior of the church was redesigned in 1836. In 1893 a new baroque high altar was erected - in keeping with the taste of the time. The financing came from a 1000 guilders donation from a couple from Gfehret and a house collection. The exterior of the parish church underwent a significant change in 1896 through the flatter redesign of the church roof, because the tower now protruded higher above the roof ridge. Two wars left deep wounds in the parish population in the 20th century. In addition, there was the loss of the old bells, which in 1917 fell victim to the War Service Act of the First World War . The organ pipes and copper sheets from the church roof were also melted down. Only the small train bell survived, only to be sacrificed in 1942 - according to an anonymous advertisement - to the hunger for raw materials of the Second World War . It was cast in Linz in 1758 by the bell founder Carl Grob. Pastor Jakob Fisch had made 300 guilders available in his will for their maintenance. A replacement was not purchased until 1959 in Sankt Florian . At the end of September 1958, Pastor Heinrich Rechberger moved the pastor's apartment from the old vicarage to the house at Kirchengasse 2, where the new vicarage was built in the immediate vicinity on the Aulerhäusel square in 1959/60. The last significant redesign of the interior of the church before the new building was done in 1969 by Pastor Johann Sattler. Since the planned construction of the new church was not yet within reach, he said, spa guests from all over the world in particular should feel at ease with the celebration of the liturgy in a church that has been cleaned of junk and kitsch . The Katharina Church remained in this simplicity, which many churchgoers did not want, until the demolition or renovation work began in winter 2005. In the course of the redesign of the church, the Federal Monuments Office carried out archaeological excavations in the old church cemetery and unfortunately only in parts of the interior of the church (16. August 2004 to March 3, 2005). In the tower crypt of the Hoheneck and Imsland families, the remains of the family members were reburied in specially made chrome-nickel steel urns and reburied on November 23, 2005.

The new church

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The parish area

Originally, the Gallspach parish was limited to the castle, some surrounding buildings and the hamlet of Niederndorf, while Schützendorf already belonged to Meggenhofen , but the farms on Weinberg, Neidharts- and Ditschenberg belonged to Grieskirchen . Due to the establishment of new farms and many small area corrections carried out over time, at the end of the 18th century, in addition to the Markt and Niederndorf, the Parish Gallspach also included the Thongraben, Vöglthen, Schützendorf, Vornwald, Pühret, Thal, Diesting and Unterholzing. In the Napoleonic Wars , Austria lost the western Hausruckviertel in the Peace of Schönbrunn , so that Gallspach became a border town from 1810 to 1816 and the new border divided the parish of Gallspach. The parsonage and the pastor's grounds were directly on the state border on the Bavarian side. The houses in Thal, Diesting, Pühret and Unterholzing remained with Austria and fell to the parish of Steinerkirchen am Innbach near Kematen . With the exception of Unterholzing, the ceded houses came back to Gallspach in 1823.

The Catholic pastors of Gallspach

  • 1358 Heinrich Zott
  • 1373 Hartnid son of Leuthold von Marchtrenk
  • 1396 Symon
  • ? –1429 Wolf Annolf
  • 1429–? Wernhard Taschner
  • ? Two pastors are not known by name
  • 1480/90 Wolfgang v. Albrechtsheim
  • 1500 Wolfgang Haimbsbach
  • 1518–1538 Johann Schütz from Krenglbach
  • 1538 / 39–1544 Wolfgang Leitner
  • 1633 Karl Zann, provisional
  • 1634/35 Anton Köck, provisional
  • 1635–1637 Mathias Brandlin
  • 1638–1641 Georg Trefel
  • 1641–1644 Johann Gottfried Mohr
  • 1645 Jakob Gramer (or Grabmayr), provisional
  • 1648 Mathias Ludwig Schöffmann
  • 1653–1663 Anton Koeck
  • 1664 Urban Kier
  • 1665 Jakob Philipp Epplin
  • 1674 Ferdinand Egger
  • 1680-1712 Vitus Erasmus Miller
  • 1712–1732 Johann Michael Vorpass
  • 1732–1762 Jakob Fisch
  • 1763–1788 Franz Xaver Achleitner
  • 1788–1812 Thaddäus Kinninger
  • 1812–1813 Karl Atwenger, provisional
  • 1813–1815 Franz Malachias Strer
  • 1815/1816 Karl Atwenger, provisional
  • 1816–1825 Josef Rath
  • 1825 Erenbert Wurmser, provisional
  • 1825–1849 Martin Jäger I
  • 1849–1888 Martin Jäger II
  • 1888 Raimund Lettmüller, provisional
  • 1888–1906 Jakob Berger
  • 1906/1907 Ignaz Radlgruber, provisional
  • 1907–1935 Jakob Obermayr
  • 1935/1936 Josef Vösenhuber, provisional
  • 1936–1963 Heinrich Rechberger
  • 1963 Willibald Himmelbauer, provisional
  • 1963–1973 Johann Sattler
  • 1973-2004 Karl Ecker
  • 2004–2009 KsR Johann Gmeiner (parish administrator)
  • 2009-2013 Innocent Nwafor

Old tombstones and inscription stones

In the course of the construction of the new church, all existing old epitaphs and inscription stones were recovered, restored and, after the construction work was completed, in the tower, in the inner courtyard and in the funeral hall.

Stately tombstones
Henry III. Geymann / Geumann / Gaiman † 1363 (according to the gravestone inscription)
Balthasar and Catharina Geymann † 1521 and 1522 respectively
Anna Eisenreich, b. Geymann † 1547 (incorrectly also attributed to Stephan Geymann [† around 1435])
Hanns Hainrich Geymann † 1566
Juliana Geymann † 1576
Hans Christoph Geymann † 1600; Attributed to Friedrich Thön , created around 1605
Antonius von Waldberg † 1650
Johann Georg Adam Baron von Hoheneck † 1754
Johann Georg Ehrenreich Count von Hoheneck † 1786
Priest gravestones
Hanns Schütz † 1538
Vitus Erasmus Miller † 1712
Michael Vorbass † 1732
Jakob Fisch † 1762
Civil gravestones
Elisabeth Greimelmairin, née Riedl, landlady in Gallspach (1658–1730)
Johann Trembl, brewer and mayor of Gallspach (1682–1767)
Carl Obermayr, innkeeper and master baker in Gallspach (1794–1860)
Philipp Muckenhuber, farmer at the Weinrichtergut in Niederndorf (1825–1867)
Other inscription stones
Building inscription 1689, arranged by Dr. iur. Augustin von Erhardt

Sources and literature

  • Pfarrurbar Gallspach 1416. Upper Austrian regional archive, museum archive. HS 81.
  • Parish hall Gallspach 1725. Upper Austrian regional archive. Museum archive. HS 83.
  • Geumann certificate No. 3. Upper Austria regional archive, 1409 June 17.
  • Geumann certificate no. 8. Upper Austrian regional archive, 1432 January 25, Vienna.
  • Geumann certificate no.12. Upper Austria regional archive, 1463 April 25.
  • Wolfgang Haimsbach's appeal on the anniversary for the Geuman family and Ms. Morisch v. Trautmansdorf. Copy of the certificate [18. Century]. Gallspach parish archive.
  • Death register. Tom I, p. 4. Gallspach parish archives.
  • Johann Georg Adam von Hoheneck: The laudable gentlemen gentlemen estates. Volume I. Passau 1727, p. 152.
  • Verzaichnuß All those peasants and subjects belonging to the Beneficio Gallspach with Trayd and Kuchel Dienst. [approx. 1650]. Copy from the 18th century with undated additions by Pastor Achleitner around 1780. Gallspach parish archive.
  • Franz Karl Wissgrill: scene of the rural Lower Austrian nobility from the lords and knights of the XI. Century to the present day. Volume 2. Vienna 1795.
  • Churches and sacristy inventory. Vol. 24 / XI, Fasc. A No. 1. Gallspach parish archive.
  • Version of the rule Pfarrhof Gallspach. Outer Hausruck district. Key Mountain Tax District. 1820. Gallspach parish archive.
  • Job Hartmann von Enenkel: Collectanea genealogica 1. Upper Austria State Archive, Schlüßlberger Archive, Hs 109, fol. 252.
  • Dominikal Fassion 1819. Gallspach parish archive.
  • Anonymous (Johann Andreas Seethaler?): Market Gallsbach. Manuscript approx. 1820/40. Gallspach Market Archive.
  • Johann Siebmacher: Large and general book of arms IV. Lower Austria nobility. Nuremberg 1909, p. 77 and plate 38.
  • Franz Berger, Wilhelm Gärtner : Local history . 4th issue. Ried 1911.
  • Karl Eder: The land above the Enns before the religious split. Linz 1932.
  • Franz Haslinger: Memorable dates for the parish church, parish and parsonage. Manuscript, undated, Gallspach parish archive.
  • Norbert Loidol: Renaissance in Upper Austria. Weitra 2010, pp. 73-74.
  • Heinrich Wurm: The Geumann on Gallspach. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Volume 4, Issue 2, Linz 1950, pp. 112–125, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  • Heinrich Wurm: The Jörger von Tollet. Graz / Cologne, 1955.
  • Hugo Hebenstreit: The Geymann von Gallspach. Volume 1, p. 14. Upper Austrian State Archives.
  • Josef Zeiger: From Hausruck to the Danube, from the Sallet to the Innbach. Steyr 1986.
  • Rom. Catholic parish Gallspach: The new church in Gallspach. Festschrift for the parish fair on December 11, 2005.
  • Rom. Catholic parish Gallspach: Way of the Cross. Brochure for the dedication of the Way of the Cross on February 25, 2007.
  • Wolfgang Klimesch: Parish Church Gallspach. Archaeological and architectural research before the start of the new church. 2005.
  • Wolfgang Perr, Bertram Scharinger, Helmut Wansch: Gallspach. 550 years of Markt Gallspach. Linz 1989.
  • Wolfgang Perr: Archaeological excavations in Gallspach. In: The Bundschuh. 9. Ried 2006, pp. 17-24.
  • Wolfgang Perr (peer): Hans Christoph Geymann von Gallspach and Trattenegg (1544-1600). In: The Bundschuh. 13. Ried / Innkreis 2010, pp. 52–62.
  • Wolfgang Perr: The Marian column . In: Gallspacher community newspaper. April 2011, p. 10.
  • Wolfgang Perr: Community chronicle of Gallspach in 3 volumes. Bad Ischl 2014. Upper Austria. State Archives Linz. Online Volume 1: History of the Gallspach Reign , Online Volume 2: History of the Parish Gallspach , Online Volume 3: History of the Gallspach Market and its surrounding area

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Abtretungs-instrument is drawn up of the chapter of St. Nicola near Passau and the pastor to Grieskirchen on Capelle to Gallspach Mr. Eberhart of Wallsee from which a parish church and the parish Gallspach . In:  Upper Austrian document book . Volume 6, No. CDXLVIII, Passau, August 19, 1343, p. 452.
  2. ↑ Gallspach parish church . In: architektur im netz , nextroom.at.
  3. ↑ Roman Catholic Parish Gallspach

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