Chapel of the Holy Trinity (Viehhausen)
The Chapel of the Most Holy Trinity is located in Viehhausen in the municipality of Wals-Siezenheim .
history
The construction of the chapel goes back to a plague epidemic in the city of Salzburg in 1625. The iron merchant Georg Gschwendtner and his relative Gabriel Schaller let a "Feldschacher", i.e. a "Feldschacher", in thanks for the fact that they and their families had been spared the plague. H. erect a wayside shrine with the two plague saints Sebastian and Rochus . When this was destroyed by a violent storm, a chapel was built in its place, where mass was celebrated for the first time in 1699. After the chapel was destroyed by a lightning strike (1710), Max Gschwendtner and Christian Pauernfeind, descendants of the chapel's founder, had the chapel rebuilt in its present larger form in 1714. The marble altar inside was donated by the master stonemason Georg Doppler. After a village fire on April 3, 1874, in which the wooden vestibule, the roof structure and two smaller bells were destroyed, the chapel was rebuilt.
Appearance
The chapel is a simple rectangular building with a small sacristy attached to the south. The chapel has an apse and a small pointed roof turret. The entrance, a round arch portal in the east, is bordered with stone and protected by a canopy. Inside the church there is a votive picture that reminds of the fire in 1874. The baroque altarpiece comes from the Salzburg court painter Jakob Zanusi . It depicts the Holy Trinity and the Virgin Mary who is crowned Queen of Heaven . Further pictures show Saint Catherine with a bike and a martyr in princely clothing; this could be King Sigismund , the patron saint of Prince Archbishop Schrattenbach, who was in power at the time the pictures were created .
literature
- Herbert Berndl: The churches of the parish Wals. Christian Art Centers Austria, No. 435. Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg: 2005, p. OA
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Maria Vinzenz Süss: The mayors of Salzburg from 1433 to 1840. Verlag J. Oberer, Salzburg: 1840.
Coordinates: 47 ° 46 ′ 59.2 ″ N , 12 ° 59 ′ 12.5 ″ E