Karlskirche (Volders)

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The Karlskirche from the east
View of the interior

The Karlskirche (Klosterkirche zum St.  Karl Borromeo ) is a Catholic  church west of Volders in Tyrol . It is considered one of the most beautiful rococo buildings in Tyrol and can also be reached directly from the Inntal motorway (in the direction of Kufstein ) . It used to be called Brugg'nkirche because of its location on the Volderer Inn Bridge . The Servite monastery is located next to the church. The church and monastery are under monument protection.

history

The foundation stone was laid on April 2, 1620, but the building could only be completed in 1654 due to the time constraints, lack of money and the consequences of the Thirty Years' War. The consecration was made on July 25, 1654 by the auxiliary bishop Perkhofer von Brixen. It got its current form in 1710. The church is reminiscent of the architecture of the Orient because of its unusual shape with six domes and the tower rounded on three sides. The builder combined his own conception of art and baroque fantasies to finally create a building in the style of the baroque. The stucco in the cornices of the outer building and in the window frames looks a little rough. Hippolyt Guarinoni zu Hoffperg and Volderthurn, the founders, builders and donors of the church, set up a permanent memorial for himself. Guarinoni was not only a site manager, but also worked as a bricklayer and worker under the name of Meister Pölten. Three chapels for the presbytery are grouped around a central high dome, in front of which is the large vestibule. The tower stands over a circular floor plan with semicircular bulges. This arrangement makes the building look a bit squat. In the niches of the portal facade there are figures of Saints Karl Borromeo, Franziska Romana, Ignatius and Maria. The total length of the building including the vestibule, the tower and the sacristy is 50 meters and it is 30 meters wide. The dome has a weakly elliptical shape and is 14.7 by 14 meters. The tower is 42 meters high, the dome 25 meters. The builder had planned the tower much higher, but died before it was completed. The servites completed it in simpler forms.

In 1696, Baron von Fiege had the painful mother's chapel added , it is located next to the main entrance. The chapel of St. Anne was added in 1710, and Count Ferdinand von Stachelburg, Baron von Hauzenheim, designated it as his tomb. At the entrance to the Anna chapel there is a bas-relief, two grave slabs can be seen in the floor. The frescoes on the ceilings of the two chapels were painted by Kaspar Waldmann in 1798 .

Two bars in the Baroque style were forged by an unknown master in 1752, they separate the chapels from the vestibule and are adorned with a dog jumping between chamois, a coat of arms and crossed clover leaves. Michale Kopp from Halle forged the lattice of the Stachelburg Chapel, it has solid bars.

The dome fresco by Knoller

Martin Knoller painted the large and important ceiling frescoes between 1765 and 1766. The lantern in the dome emits light from eight windows that falls evenly onto the painting. The central figure of the fresco is Karl Borromeo, kneeling in a purple cardinal robe and turning his gaze to Jesus. Karl is surrounded by the three divine virtues. The figures of God the Father and the Holy Spirit are surrounded by angels. Christ is enthroned on a cloud in heaven and awaits Karl. On the left you can see the twelve apostles and a church standing on a hill. Maria is dressed in a blue dress, her head is surrounded by stars. The bishop of Brixen, Ignatius and a number of blessed and saints complete the representation. The frescoes in the spandrels under the dome fresco tell various events from the life of the church patron. Another theme are representations from the Old Testament with Moses and Aaron and John the Baptist. The so-called angel fall symbolizes the fall of earlier heresies. Smaller frescoes in the choir show the birth of Charles, in the Ignatius Chapel the admission into the community of the cardinals is shown. It is clearly Pius IV. To detect. The Pope's head was not painted by Knoller, but by his pupil Josef Schöpf . It is worth mentioning the masterful three-dimensional representation of a carpet in bright colors. In the Epiphany Chapel, Karl is depicted as a distributor of alms. On the fresco on the ceiling of the vestibule, Karl can be seen with little Guarinonino. This is where Knoller's pupils Matthias Ruef and Giuseppe Cereda put their hands on.

The rococo stucco was created by Johann Georg Gigl in 1766/67 .

Furnishing

High altar
  • In the chapel of the painful mother there is a Pietà, it is probably the work of the sculptor Andreas Thamasch from Stams , he created it around 1707.
  • The baroque pulpit was built in 1766 by the sculptor Martin Falbesoner from Nassereith , the setting and gilding was done by Peter Hueber from Mals .
  • Martin Knoller painted the large picture of the high altar in Milan in 1769. Saint Charles is in the center of attention in a cardinal's regalia, giving communion to a woman suffering from plague. Knoller took his wife's face as a template. He immortalized himself between two figures behind a goblet. A man snatches the toddler from a nursing mother, a man tries to escape the plague on a horse, a dead person is carried to the grave. In the upper part, Mary is carried by four angels, she is represented as intercessor for suffering humanity.
  • The baroque style tabernacle structure is made of alabaster. Two angels kneel on the tabernacle, they are flanked by the figures of Gertrude, who symbolizes the church, and Michael in the fight against the devil. The two saints originally stood in the Innsbruck Court Church and were donated by Empress Maria Theresia. It is not known which artists made the figures.

renovation

In the 1970s the church was in dire need of renovation. In order to preserve the building for future generations and to generate the necessary funds, the association Rettet die Karlskirche was founded. The club raised around 1.74 million euros. A concept for completing the necessary work was drawn up in cooperation. The roof stalls were in urgent need of renovation, after the renovation it was covered with sheet copper. At the same time a new crypt was built. In order to be able to professionally divert the slope water, a retaining wall 40 meters long was built on the south side of the Karlskirche, the foundations were laid dry. The tower needed restoration and the facade of the church had to be renewed. The old sacristy had to give way to a new building on the original foundations. In the interior, the frescoes, the walls, the chairs, the floors and the confessionals have been extensively restored. The renovated church was consecrated on September 19, 1988. The total cost was 2.29 million euros.

The church as a burial place

  • Guarinoni, his wife and two sons are buried in front of the steps of the Three Kings altar, their grave is covered with a white marble slab. Originally they were in Hall and were later transferred.
  • According to an inscription on the marble slab, the student Maccabeus Troyer is lying under the pulpit.
  • There are a number of crypt chambers under the pews, and a number of servites who died in the monastery are buried here.
  • Baron Karl von Fieger died on May 5, 1700, he is lying in the crypt of the chapel he founded.
  • Count Ferdinand von Stachelburg died in 1723; he too is buried in a chapel he donated. His red marble grave slab is superbly crafted. A bas-relief reports that he was ordained a priest when he was 70 years old.

The monastery

The Servite monastery next to the Karlskirche

From the beginning Hippolyt Guarinoni intended to have the church he founded looked after by an order and to build a monastery near it. Since his son Karl (Seraphin) had entered the Servite monastery in Innsbruck in 1617 , he had a close connection to the Servites and selected them for the monastery. With the temporary cessation of the building of the church in 1636, the plans for the monastery were also delayed, which were not resumed until 1650. After the death Guarinoni 1654, Johann Fieger began for the construction of the monastery, which is also of Emperor Leopold I was supported. Nevertheless, it was not until 1692 that the first four Servites were able to move into the half-finished monastery, which was completed in 1698. The Fathers looked after the numerous believers who made a pilgrimage to the so-called "Bruggen Mother", an image of grace in the vestibule of the church, and helped out in pastoral care in the surrounding communities.

The simple, two- to three-storey building is laid out around a rectangular inner courtyard and covered with a hipped roof. The facades are economical due Gutgesimse, Eckquaderung and geohrte window window surrounds divided. The monastery building is connected to the Karlskirche via an archway. Inside, several rooms with stucco from the time of construction have been preserved.

Today the building is largely used by the PORG (private upper level secondary school) Volders , for which renovations and extensions were carried out from 2001 to 2004. Originally, the grammar school for training in church service was only open to young men. However, this changed in the second half of the 20th century. Today the school maintainer is the association of religious schools in Austria. The school offers both an artistic and an ecological branch.

literature

  • Church leaders The Karlskirche in Volders . Publisher and publisher: Servitenkloster Volders (1992); Alpina print.

Web links

Commons : Karlskirche, Volders  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Church guide The Karlskirche in Volders . Publisher and ed. Servitenkloster Volders Alpina Druck, p. 13
  2. ^ Church guide The Karlskirche in Volders . Publisher and ed. Servitenkloster Volders Alpina Druck, pp. 5–11
  3. ^ Church guide The Karlskirche in Volders . Publisher and ed. Servitenkloster Volders Alpina Druck, pp. 11 and 12
  4. ^ Church guide The Karlskirche in Volders . Publisher and ed. Servitenkloster Volders Alpina Druck, p. 14
  5. ↑ a b Frick, Schmid-Pittl: Klosterkirche hl. Karl Borromeo, Karlskirche. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved August 1, 2017 .
  6. ^ Church guide The Karlskirche in Volders . Publisher and ed. Servitenkloster Volders Alpina Druck, pp. 18 and 19
  7. ^ Church guide The Karlskirche in Volders . Publisher and ed. Servitenkloster Volders Alpina Druck, p. 14
  8. ^ Church guide The Karlskirche in Volders . Publisher and ed. Servitenkloster Volders Alpina Druck, pp. 20 and 21
  9. ^ Church guide The Karlskirche in Volders . Publisher and ed. Servitenkloster Volders Alpina Druck, p. 24
  10. ↑ Renovation in the 1970s
  11. ^ Church guide The Karlskirche in Volders . Publisher and ed. Servitenkloster Volders Alpina Druck, pp. 25 and 26
  12. ^ Franz Caramelle, Richard Frischauf: The monasteries and monasteries of Tyrol . Tyrolia - Athesia, Innsbruck - Bozen 1985, ISBN 3-7022-1549-2 , p. 175-177 .
  13. ↑ Frick, Schmid-Pittl: Servitenkonvent, Servitenkloster Volders. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved June 9, 2016 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 16 '58.2 "  N , 11 ° 33' 12.9"  E