Ganz (municipality of Matrei in East Tyrol)

Quite ( village ) locality
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Lienz  (LZ), Tyrol
Pole. local community	Matrei in Osttirol   ( KG  Matrei in Osttirol Land)
Coordinates	46 ° 59 '33 "  N , 12 ° 31' 10"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 59 '33 "  N , 12 ° 31' 10"  E
Residents of the village	123 (January 1, 2020)
Post Code	9971
Statistical identification
Locality code	16819
Counting district / district	Matrei in East Tyrol area (70717 001)
The whole faction seen from the north
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; TIRIS

Ganz is a fraction of the municipality of Matrei in East Tyrol . The village is located southwest of the Matrei market in the Matrei valley and has 123 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

geography

The hamlet of Guggenberg with the Trinity Chapel

Ganz is in the cadastral community of Matrei in Osttirol Land and is around two kilometers southwest of the center of the Matrei market in the west of the Matrei basin. Together with the neighboring villages Waier and Bichl in the east, Ganz on the slope of the Zunig forms a scattered settlement in the south of the Matreier market, which the population calls "Echlerwasser". The whole consists of numerous, scattered farms, with the Lukasser, Niggler and Lampeter farms forming the hamlet of Guggenberg. In addition, a large number of single-family houses have now been built in Ganz, mainly on the road from Waier to Virgental, in the area of ​​the Ganzerbach.

population

In 1869, 127 people lived in 24 houses in Ganz. In the 1890 census, however, the number of residents of Ganz and Guggenberg had fallen to 96, with 16 houses being counted to Ganz. In the 1951 census, a total of 127 people was recorded for Ganz. In addition, 21 houses were calculated as a whole. Of these, three houses and 36 residents were in Ganz, three houses and 30 residents in the hamlet of Guggenberg, three houses with 21 residents in the houses around the Nikolauskirche and six houses with 40 people in scattered houses. In addition, six alpine huts belonged to Ganz.

Buildings and sights

Listed ensemble of the Nikolauskirche with the farms Klabiner and Messner

The most important building in the Ganz faction is the Romanesque branch church of St. Nicholas . The building that exists today was built in the 12th or early 13th century, but goes back to a much older predecessor. The valuable Romanesque frescoes in the church are particularly important. In addition to the St. Nicholas Church, the Ganz fraction also includes the Chapel of the Holy Trinity in the hamlet of Guggenberg, the Trinity shrine on the way to St. Nicholas Church, the protected courtyard group around St. Nicholas Church as well as a listed grain box and a grain mill.

Chapel of the Holy Trinity

The Holy Trinity Chapel is located in the hamlet of Guggenberg by the Niggler farm. The two-bay chapel has a steep, shingle-roofed gable roof without turrets and was probably built in the second half of the 18th century. Externally, the chapel is also structured by a slightly drawn-in apse and two arched windows in each of the longitudinal walls. On the entrance side there is a rectangular portal and a round window in the gable.

The interior of the chapel ceiling is formed by a barrel vault. The rich interior decoration goes back to the history of today's Niggler farmhouse, which used to be a count's hunting lodge. The small rococo altar is made of wood with a brown marble frame and has gold-plated ornamental parts. The altar itself is dominated by the group of figures of the Holy Trinity, with the figure of Christ holding a cross in his left hand on which the Holy Spirit is, represented as a dove with golden rays. On the pedestal of the reredos there are also four figures of saints, depicting St. Nicholas, St. New Year's and two female saints.

Wayside shrines and votive tablets

Three of the four votive tablets on the Isel Bridge

The Dreifaltigkeitsstöckl, also called Ganz-Stöckl, is located at the junction to the St. Nicholas Church. It is a wayside shrine, which in its present form was probably built in the 1930s and restored in 1953. The open wayside shrine with a porch and a round-arched altar niche has a baroque picture that is dated 1754/1774. The picture shows the poor souls in purgatory with the representation of the Holy Trinity , with Christ, God and the Holy Spirit (dove) being summarized by a triangular halo. The wayside shrine also has two figures of St. Joseph and St. Antonius.

Not far from the Dreifaltigkeitsstöckl is the whole house chapel. It was built after the hard winter of 1951. The farmer Anna Mattersberger had the wayside shrine erected after a vow after the Arnitz avalanche barely spared the Ganzer farm. The brick-covered wayside shrine, which was dedicated to Saint New Year's Eve, is an open wayside shrine with a pillar porch and a round-arched altar niche. The picture of the wayside shrine shows Saint New Year's Eve and a guardian angel.

To the east of the crossing of the Zeller Iselbrücke there are four votive pictures . They date from the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century and are dedicated to several people who died in accidents. The votive pictures are traditionally painted picture panels, on each of which there is sacred representations and a text about the accidents.

Farmhouses

In addition to the sacred buildings, Ganz also has several listed secular buildings. Of particular importance is the group of farms below the St. Nicholas Church, which consists of the Klabiner farm (Ganz No. 14) and the Messner farm (Ganz No. 15). It is about two former free pen property of the Matreier parish widow. The Klabiner farm, part of the former Klabinerhube, is a typical East Tyrolean pair farm with a small well house. Immediately next to the Klabinerhof is the Messner farmhouse, the birthplace of the sculptor Virgil Rainer . In contrast to the neighboring Klabiner, the Messnerhof is a massive farm with a free-standing grain bin from the 18th century. The important secular buildings of the fraction also include a grain bin belonging to the farms Ganz Nr. 3 and Nr. 5 and the nearby Hansermühle. The granary dates from the 17th century and was built as a materially divided storage building. Probably before 1700 the building was expanded to a double box. The Hanslermühle is a grain mill on a slope with a gable-sided mill wheel. The mill probably dates from the 19th century.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ local Repetorium the princely county of Tyrol and Vorarlberg. On the basis of the census of December 31, 1869, processed by the kk statistical Central Commission in Vienna. Innsbruck 1873
3. ^ Kk statistical Central Commission (ed.): Special-Orts-Repertorium von Tirol. Revised based on the results of the census of December 31, 1890. Vienna 1893
4. ^ Austrian Central Statistical Office (ed.): Local directory of Austria. Edited on the basis of the results of the census of June 1, 1951. Vienna 1953
5. ↑ Parish Church of St. Alban. Matrei in East Tyrol. P. 81
6. ^ The art monuments of the political district of Lienz. Part III. Iseltal, Defereggental, Kalsertal, Virgental. P. 122

literature

• Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): The art monuments of the political district of Lienz. Part III. Iseltal, Defereggental, Kalsertal, Virgental. Verlag Berger, Horn 2007 ISBN 978-3-85028-448-6 (Austrian Art Topography, Volume LVII)
• Alexander Brugger; Josef Wörgötter: Parish Church of St. Alban. Matrei in East Tyrol. Self-published, Matrei in Osttirol 1984
• Tobias Trost; Alexander Brugger: Matrei in Osttirol. A hike from the Kienburg to the Großvenediger. Edition Anteros, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85340-015-9

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