Gnigl parish church
The Gnigl parish church of the Assumption of Mary and St. Michael is a Roman Catholic church in Obergnigl in the Gnigl district of the city of Salzburg . The church and cemetery with the cemetery chapel are under monument protection.
history
The parish church is located on the edge of the historical center of Obergnigl below Neuhaus Castle at the foot of the Kühberg . Today's Gnigler Friedhof has forerunners in a Roman and a Bavarian row grave . A chapel of St. Michael was mentioned in a document in 1585.
In 1697/98 a copy of the miraculous image of Maria Pötsch (original in St. Stephen's Cathedral) , originally from Hungary ( Máriapócs ) , a protective cloak Madonna (here called Maria Schutz ) was set up , which started a local pilgrimage tradition.
A previous building is named for 1696. In 1699, Prince Archbishop Johann Ernst von Thun raised Gnigl and Aigen to the position of curate , with which a pastor of his own began to keep a register book , with which a separate cemetery could be established. Secular shelter Gnigl and Aigen as Hofmark the Pfleg- and district court Neuhaus . After decades of efforts, the church was rebuilt under the curate priest Johann Scherer, who was pastor in Gnigl from 1722 to 1752. The plans for the church were made by Sebastian Stumpfegger (1670–1749) and were probably made around 1710. From 1730 to 1734 the new church was built with the court mason Tobias Kendler. The organ loft was built between 1732 and 1738. The church consecration took place with Archbishop Leopold Anton von Firmian on June 24th, 1738, whereby the church was consecrated again on the Assumption of Mary and the original patronage of St. Michael was kept subordinate.
In 1852 Aigen was elevated to an independent parish. In 1857 Gnigl was elevated to a parish and was responsible for the entire community area at the time - including Itzling , Schallmoos-Ost , Guggenthal , Heuberg and parts of the Gaisberg .
In 1700, which was not far from the church in Obergnigl Luggaukapelle Our Lady on Schnoderbach built.
From the end of the prince-archbishopric 1803 to 1979 the parish belonged to the city dean of Salzburg , then until 2011 to the dean's office of Salzburg-East . Then the comprehensive city deanship was re-established and Gnigl was assigned to the parish association Elsbethen - Salzburg-Aigen - Salzburg-Gnigl - Salzburg-Parsch (PV 3, southeast of the city, municipality of Elsbethen , Aigen , Parsch , Gnigl without Gnigl-Nord ). The parish now serves the branch church Hl. Kreuz in Guggenthal and measuring chapels Luggaukapelle, Lanzingkapelle, Gschwandt Bauernkapelle, Hütteikapelle and the Holy. Cross Chapel . Parts of Gnigl-Nord are looked after by the parish of St. Severin in Sam .
Building description
The late baroque church with a nave with two short transverse arms and a slightly drawn-in, flat-rounded choir forms the shape of a Latin cross . The church with a facade tower is oriented to the northwest and is surrounded by a cemetery. A two-story sacristy adjoins the choir in the building axis . The church tower is divided into three floors, has round-arched sound windows with stucco framing and segment-arched roofing, a clock gable and an onion helmet. The main portal on the tower ground floor has a frame with Tuscan pilasters and a blown gable. Above the portal is the coat of arms of Archbishop Johann Ernst von Thun with the year 1696 and above it a wall painting with a sundial and Mary with child enthroned on clouds with a chronogram 1854. The side portals are simply designed.
In the tower ground floor and the vestibule of the church there is a marble plaque with the indication of the church consecration on June 24th, 1738.
The church building was last renovated in 2007.
Furnishing
The high altar was also made by Stumpfegger and is marked 1738. The statues of the saints are mainly made by the sculptor Josef Anton Pfaffinger (1684–1758). The altar paintings on the high altar ( angel's fall ), on the left side altar ( seven refuge ) and on the right side altar (St. John Nepomuk with angels) were created by the Salzburg court painter Jacob Zanusi from 1734 to 1738 .
In 1953, four new bells were inaugurated by Archbishop Andreas Rohracher .
The Gnigler Friedhof
The cemetery has existed here since 1696. In 1963 this cemetery next to the church was expanded for the third time.
A rarity in the urban area is the preserved chapel of the dead in the cemetery with its All Souls ' altar and with finely inscribed skulls that are kept in wooden boxes.
On the side facing away from the church there is a row of tombs on the old churchyard wall, in which, among other things, the graves of Carl Freiherr von Schwarz (1817–1898), Hofrat Dr. Emanuel Czuber , Univ. Prof. of the Technical University in Vienna (1851-1925) and his wife Berta, as well as the family grave of the Toncic von Sorinj family, in which the former MP, Austrian Foreign Minister and Secretary General of the Council of Europe Lujo Tončić-Sorinj (born April 12, 1915 in Vienna, † May 20, 2005 in Salzburg), as well as their ancestors, the families of Schmieterloew and von Plason de la Woestyne. On the southern wall of the cemetery is the grave with a memorial stone of Baroness Emilie Victorine Wolfsberg , the "dog countess" who accompanied Napoleon on his travels.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Salzburg 1986 . Salzburg, Elisabethvorstadt - Itzling - Schallmoos - Gnigl, Gnigler parish church, cemetery chapel, pp. 664–666.
- Roland Peter Kerschbaum : Parish Church of the Assumption and St. Michael. Gnigl Salzburg. Church guide, Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 2009.
- Sabine Veits-Falk, Thomas Weidenholzer, Martin Zehentner (book design): Gnigl, medieval mill village, community on the railway, Salzburg district . Gnigler district chronicle. Self-published by the community development association Gnigl-Langwied-Sam, Salzburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-900213-13-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
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↑ VO 31/2011 Dissolution of the deaneries in the city of Salzburg - establishment of the city deanery.
VO 32/2011 City of Salzburg: Decree on the division into parish associations.
both Ordinance Gazette of the Archdiocese of Salzburg (VOBL) No. 4, April 2011, p. 40 ff (pdf, kirchen.net) - ^ Johann Kronbichler: The artistic work of Jacob Zanusis. In: Ladinia. Volume XXIV-XXV (2000-2001), pp. 61-88. ( PDF; 3.3 MB )
Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 43.4 " N , 13 ° 4 ′ 27" E