Sacred Heart Church (Bozen)
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The Herz-Jesu-Kirche is a Roman Catholic church in the South Tyrolean capital Bolzano . It is located at Rauschertorgasse 6 in the Zentrum-Bozner Boden-Rentsch district and is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus .
history
The Sacred Heart Church, which is structurally connected to the neighboring Stillendorf residence , was founded by the Order of the Eucharist on the occasion of the centenary of the consecration of the State of Tyrol to the Sacred Heart of Jesus (1796) and the fiftieth anniversary of the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1897 – Erected in 1899. It was the first church of the Eucharist in the German-speaking area, which came to Bolzano in autumn 1897 through the mediation of the Zallinger-Stillendorf family. The foundation stone was laid on June 25, 1897 by Abbot Ambros II of Muri-Gries ; the emperor took over the patronage of the church in 1898, which he also visited twice.
In the interior of the church he is depicted above the apse. The architect of the church was Johann Bittner, who also built the Michaelsburg as a monastery for the Eucharist in 1900/01 west of the church on Sparkassenstrasse . The Austrian heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was also present at the inauguration of the church on June 9, 1899 by Prince-Bishop Eugenio Carlo Valussi of Trento . Before the First World War, the Herz-Jesu-Kirche served as a garrison church for the kuk Kaiserjäger . Since all of Bolzano's larger churches were badly damaged by a total of 13 air raids by the Allies during World War II, the Sacred Heart Church, the only one spared, served the cathedral parish as a church between 1944 and 1950. It has been a listed building since 1982 .
Church description
The church was created in the neo-Romanesque style from reddish-purple porphyry stones as a basilica with a double tower facade. On this is a sixteen-part rosette , a mosaic by Ignaz Stolz in the facade gallery, depicting the nine choirs of angels , and in the tympanum of the arched gate a relief with the image of Rudolf von Habsburg by Alois Winkler . On one of the two 40-meter-high towers is a clock and underneath it the half gold-plated, half blue sphere of the moon, which rotates with the phases of the moon. The seven bells come from the Colbacchini company in Trento ; the largest of these weighs 3,071 kg.
The three-aisled church with groin vault is 50 meters long and 20 meters wide and high. Inside it has a rich program of images. The decorative paintings are by Ignaz Stolz, while the ceiling paintings and murals in the Nazarene style were created by Jonas Ranter in the years 1905–1910 based on designs by Josef Schmid. In the choir on the left they depict the adoration of the newborn Christ Child, the death of Christ on the cross and the descent of the Holy Spirit, on the right the Last Supper and the sending of the apostles. The ceiling paintings show King David and Melchizedech and the prophets Malachi and Zechariah under the gallery , above the organ Saints Pierre Julien Eymard , Paschalis Baylon , Aloisius von Gonzaga and again King David, in the 2nd yoke the four evangelists with their symbols, in the 3rd yoke four angels and above the choir the risen Christ in Limbo and his Ascension. Mosaics adorn the apse on the front with the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor (90 m²) and in the conche with the Adoration of the Lamb and the Trinity (184 m²). A marble ciborium with the statue of the Archangel Michael rises on four pillars above the high altar . The statues on the side altars are all made by Tyrolean artists. The Marian altar with the figure of Our Lady of the Most Holy Sacrament by Alois Winkler in front of the decorative mural of the Tree of Life is highlighted. The Stations of the Cross pictures were created by Jonas Ranter in 1907-09, a crucifix on the left side wall comes from Pendl's school. The organ in the gallery of Orgelbau Pirchner from 1977 has 20 sounding registers , two manuals and a pedal .
literature
- Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Bolzano (Flyer with a short history and description of the church, n.d.)
- Walter Marzari: The Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Bozen: historical documentation on the history of its origins. A commemorative publication for the 100th anniversary , Bolzano: Self-published by the Eucharistines 1998.
Web links
- Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office
Coordinates: 46 ° 30 ′ 3.1 ″ N , 11 ° 21 ′ 3.8 ″ E