Sacred Heart Church (Tanas)

Church of the Holy Heart of Jesus
Church of the Holy Heart of Jesus
Construction year:	1895 to 1897
Inauguration:	1908
Builder :	Anton Stecher
Style elements :	Neo-Romance
Client:	Parish of Tanas
Location:	46 ° 38 '25.5 "  N , 10 ° 39' 50.7"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 38 '25.5 "  N , 10 ° 39' 50.7"  E
Purpose:	Roman Catholic parish church
Local community:	Tanas
Parish:	Tanas
Diocese :	Bozen-Brixen

The Church of the Holy Heart of Jesus is located in the Tanas von Laas fraction ( South Tyrol ) on a hill above the village on the site of the former Rinnhof.

history

To reach the original Tanaser Church of St. Peter , you had to use a narrow footpath and also cross the Tanaser Bach on a narrow wooden footbridge. Constant falling rocks put the users at risk. In addition, it was also often muddy and therefore impassable. The Tanas therefore increasingly asked for their own church that could be reached without endangering one's life. In 1892 the Kirchweg was finally closed by the authorities. The gendarmerie post command in Schlanders reported:

"As many witnesses report, stones often rolled down, sometimes hitting them on the foot, sometimes on the shoulder, but sometimes walking past in dangerous proximity."

The ordinariate in Trento then ordered the use of the St. Anna chapel as an alternative , as long as the church path was closed.

Then again it was decided to go to St. Anna in winter and St. Peter in summer for church services. There were increasing disputes between the “miners” (the inhabitants of the mountain farms) on the other side of the stream and the villagers on the eastern side. The villagers continued to push for their own church to be built and finally began in 1895, the contradictions of the "Berger" were no longer of any use.

Just two years after construction began, the church was blessed in 1897 by the dean Schönafinger from Schlanders. Since the 100th anniversary of the Sacred Heart Vow was celebrated in 1896, it was decided to go for this patronage . On October 30, 1908, the church was consecrated by Bishop Cölestin of Trento. After that, Sunday services were held in St. Peter for a while from May to November, but from 1928 only in the Herz-Jesu-Kirche. The church days were celebrated separately.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the former exposition became a curate , which was elevated to an independent parish on August 8, 1962. Pastor Peter Stieger, appointed since 1959, remained the only clergyman in the church in Tanas. After he had to give up his position in 2004 for reasons of age, the position was no longer filled. Tanas is now being looked after from Laas. The parish hall is empty.

Building

Gallery with the organ, above the coffered ceiling

The church is built in the neo-Romanesque style. The builder was Anton Stecher from Prad , who also built the Maria Lourdes church in Laas. Josef Groß from Schnals made the three altars in 1897, based on designs by Josef Überbacher. The group of sculptures at the high altar with the blessing Heart of Jesus in the center, Mary and Joseph kneeling to one side, was created by Anton Santifaller and is based on a work by Dominikus Trenkwalder in Merano . The statue of St. Anna on the left side altar is also by Anton Santifaller. The Pietà on the right side altar and the reliefs with the evangelists and their symbols on the pulpit were created by Franz Tavella.

In the choir there are ridge vaults with stitch caps , the ceiling of the nave consists of a heavily profiled wooden coffered ceiling with rosettes and tenons. In each side wall there are three arched windows, the glass in a simple carpet pattern. The wooden gallery is supported by two columns. The organ from 1896 comes from the Mayr brothers in Feldkirch . It has since been restored.

The oldest bell dates from 1496 and comes from Terlan . It bears the inscription: "AVE MARIA GRATIA PLENA DOMINUS TECUM BENEDICTA TU IN MULIERIBUS", as well as a medallion with angels. After she jumped in 1948, she had to be taken down and is now on the side altar. The pointed bell tower stands to the side of the choir and carries four bells. Two of them were cast by Luigi Colbacchini in Trento in 1921 . One of them, the Sacred Heart Bell, was donated by the "Brothers at Mairhof", the second, dedicated to several saints, jumped. The big bell was bought in 1955. It probably comes from Laion and, according to the inscription, was remelted from spoils of war by Giovanni Colbacchini in Trento on June 5, 1918. A fourth bell was bought in 2003, it was cast by the Oberascher company in Salzburg and is dedicated to St. Dedicated to Josef Freinademetz . It bears its relief, which was designed by Martin Rainer, with the inscription: Hl. Josef Freinademetz, ask our country holy men and women, priests, religious and missionaries .

The church was not painted until 1937. It is kept uniform and consists of decorative painting of the architectural parts. In the center of the choir vault, St. Trinity, surrounded by symbolic representations of the days of creation, the symbols of the seven sacraments in the stitch caps . On the triumphal arch you can see the Annunciation scene and on the side walls in four circles the “four last things” (death, judgment, heaven and hell), the Beatitudes are written in the arches . In the entrance area there are square fields that contain the Ten Commandments . Since the painting took place at a time when the German language was banned in South Tyrol by the fascist dictatorship, everything was written in Latin.

In 1955 the coffered ceiling and in 1971 a heater was installed, in the 1990s the roof was renewed, the windows restored and the church was repainted inside and out.

The church is only accessible for church services, otherwise it is locked.

literature

• Gertraud Laimer Tappeiner: Churches of Laas, Eyrs, Tschengsl and Tanas. Ed. Pfarre Laas, Verlag Tappeiner, Lana 2011, p. 91 ff.

Web links

Commons : Herz-Jesu-Kirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office