Sacred Heart Church (Innsbruck)
The Herz-Jesu-Kirche is a Serbian Orthodox church in downtown Innsbruck . It was a Catholic Church until 2019 . It was built between 1896 and 1898 and served as the monastery church of the adjoining Redemptorist College until 2019 . The building is a listed building .
history
In 1895, a new monastery was built near the new hospital for the Redemptorists who had lived in Innsbruck since 1827 . On May 17th, 1896, in the year of the centenary of the consecration of Tyrol to the Sacred Heart of Jesus , the foundation stone for the church was laid. After two years of construction, Prince-Bishop Simon Aichner consecrated the church on May 25, 1898. In 1950 she was raised to the parish church for the surrounding area. In 2018, due to the declining membership, the Redemptorists decided to withdraw from Innsbruck and hand over the Sacred Heart Church to the Serbian Orthodox community.
architecture
The gallery basilica as a neo-Romanesque church building and the subsequent monastery building were built from 1896 to 1897 according to the plans of the master builder Peter Huter with the builders Alfons Mayr and Franz Mayr. The church was equipped until 1909 according to the plans and under the direction of the architect and sculptor Josef Schmid.
The main facade of the monastery church in the street alignment of Maximilianstrasse is divided into three parts with buttresses and gabled in the middle and has three neo-Romanesque stone portals and above triforic windows and above a final dwarf gallery and above a mighty, richly structured central tower with a pointed helmet. The main facade shows the statues Herz Jesu and the saints Alfons and Clemens Maria Hofbauer .
The square vaulted vestibule is followed by a two-bay central nave, then the pseudo transept, then the choir bay with a semicircular apse, all with ribbed vaults . The ceiling paintings based on a design by Josef Schmid were painted by the painters Jonas Rantner, Heinrich Schmid, Anton Marte , Mentel and Eduard Sailer. In the nave they show scenes from the life of Jesus, in the crossing the heavenly Jerusalem and in the apse the crucifixion of Christ.
Furnishing
The marble altars were created by the sculptor Leopold Seeber . The canteens are decorated with mosaic decorations. The statues were created by the sculptor Alois Winkler . The marble pulpit with reliefs of the four evangelists and the Way of the Cross made of marble and polychrome reliefs were created in 1913 by Alois Winkler and Leopold Seeber. The confessionals and the church chairs were created in 1900 by the carpenter Florian Sperl. The richly designed vestibule grille was created by the blacksmith Robert Platzer during the construction period. A crucifix by the sculptor Adolf Rachatsch and a guardian angel by Alois Winkler hang in the vestibule.
In the church there is a Lourdes chapel on the left and a mortuary chapel on the right. In the chapel of the dead there is a bronze sculpture of the risen man by the sculptor Emmerich Kerle (1968).
The organ was built in 1900 based on a design by the architect Father Johann Maria Reiter with the organ builder A. Vogl.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Tirol 1980 . Innsbruck, Inner City, Herz-Jesu-Kirche, monastery building, p. 42.
- Franz Caramelle, Richard Frischauf: The monasteries and monasteries of Tyrol . Tyrolia - Athesia, Innsbruck - Bozen 1985, ISBN 3-7022-1549-2 , p. 181-182 .
- Schmid-Pittl, Wiesauer: Redemptorist monastery church, Herz-Jesu-Kirche. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved October 18, 2017 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- Jump up ↑ Herz-Jesu-Kirche becomes Orthodox. tirol.orf.at from November 12, 2018
- ↑ Orthodox Christians received a church gift at tirol.orf.at on March 10, 2019
Coordinates: 47 ° 15 ′ 45.3 " N , 11 ° 23 ′ 25" E