Catholic parish church Elixhausen

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West tower (1796)
Choir with high altar
Longhouse to the west
Mooser organ (1857)

The Elixhausen Catholic Parish Church is elevated in the center of the Elixhausen community in the Salzburg-Umgebung district in the Salzburg region . On the patronage of hll. The Roman Catholic parish church , consecrated to Bartholomäus and Vitus , belongs to the Bergheim deanery in the Archdiocese of Salzburg , the patronage festival is celebrated on August 24th . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).

history

The church was officially consecrated in 1173. A Romanesque apse was found during an excavation. The late Gothic church building was officially consecrated in 1516. In 1798 the church was elevated to the position of vicariate, in 1823 a new building followed, which was consecrated in 1824. In 1891 it was elevated to parish church.

architecture

The post-baroque church with a Gothic west tower is raised in the center of the village and is surrounded by a walled cemetery.

The three-storey late Gothic west tower from around 1516 has pressed, pointed arched fluted sound openings, a baroque clock cornice and the onion helmet is from 1796. In the north-west corner there is a mortuary chapel, probably partly late Gothic, with a chamfered rectangular portal, inside with a baroque flat barrel. The simple nave and the three-sided closing choir with rectangular windows is from 1823. On the south side of the choir is a two-storey extension of a sacristy and an oratory.

Furnishing

The altarpiece from 1626 is from Nonnberg Abbey and was transferred here in 1769. The altarpiece St. Bartholomäus and the extract of God the Father are by the painter Josef Rattensperger from 1850. There is a bell by the foundryman Franz Oberascher from 1838.

organ

In 1857 Ludwig Mooser delivered a new organ with six registers on one manual and pedal . On July 27, 1931 , during the evening prayer, lightning struck the church tower, got into the church and "smashed" the organ. Nobody was hurt.

Disposition

Manual C – f 3
Principal 8th'
Covered 8th'
flute 4 ′
Picolo 2 ′
mixture 2 ′
Pedal C-f 0
Sub bass 16 ′

literature

  • The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Salzburg 1986 . Elixhausen, parish church hll. Bartholomäus and Vitus, rectory southeast of the church, pp. 79–80.
  • Alfred Rinnerthaler: Church leaders

Web links

Commons : Parish Church Elixhausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Personnel of the world and religious clergy of the Archdiocese of Salzburg for 1957 ( Schematismus 1957), ed. from the Archbishop's Office in Salzburg 1957, p. 169.
  2. ↑ digitized version .

Coordinates: 47 ° 52 ′ 3.71 "  N , 13 ° 4 ′ 2.16"  E