Johanneskirche (Innsbruck)
The Roman Catholic Johanneskirche ( Johann Nepomuk Church ) is located on Innsbruck's Innrain .
history
At the instigation of the court building clerk Josef Hyazinth Dörflinger , a chapel was built here in 1721 and the existing baroque church in its place in 1729 , in honor of St. John of Nepomuk in the year of his canonization. The name of the church was also spelled Johanniskirche in earlier decades (in the genitive form with i ). The vestibule dates from 1750, the ceiling fresco of the church was created by Josef Schöpf in 1794. The high baroque building, built according to Italian models, goes back to Georg Anton Gumpp and for a long time formed the western end of the Innrain .
The Johanneskirche served various pastoral purposes and was also looked after by religious orders. This is how the Redemptorists worked on it until their own monastery building in Maximilianstrasse was completed. They were succeeded by a Benedictine priory . After the Second World War , the church became an independent branch until it became home to the university parish in 1993. Bernhard Hippler has been a university pastor since 1979 .
Furnishing
Sanctuary
Ceiling fresco
In the blind niche on the south side of the church is a memorial plaque for the members of the K.Ö.HV Leopoldina Innsbruck who died in the two world wars . It was erected in its original form in the spring of 1926 for the fallen soldiers of the First World War and designed by the architect Fritz Michael Müller. The coat of arms of the Leopoldina is located above the plaque, carried by two putti . After the Second World War , the memorial plaque was expanded. The table and coat of arms are made of breccia concrete.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historical postcard of St. John's Church in Innsbruck ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 7, 2015.
- ↑ Peter Pichler: 75 years of history of the Leopoldina Catholic University Association in Innsbruck. Catholic University Association Leopoldina, Innsbruck 1976, p. 218ff.
Coordinates: 47 ° 15 ′ 55.5 ″ N , 11 ° 23 ′ 19.3 ″ E