Catholic parish church Vöcklabruck

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North-east view of the parish church of St. Ulrich

The Roman Catholic parish church Vöcklabruck is located in the municipality of Vöcklabruck in the Vöcklabruck district in Upper Austria . The church consecrated to St. Ulrich - incorporated into St. Florian Monastery - belongs to the Schwanenstadt dean's office in the Diocese of Linz . The church and the former cemetery area are under monument protection .

location

It is located in the back of the town right next to the so-called Heimathaus Vöcklabruck , the former beneficiary house .

history

A church in Vöcklabruck was first mentioned in a document in 1391. After the construction of the city wall, the existing churches - the Schöndorfer Church , the town's parish church since at least 1146/47, and the Dörflkirche - were outside the city wall. Therefore, in the middle of the 14th century, on the initiative of the city fathers, an Ulrich chapel was built within the city walls. This chapel was rebuilt at the beginning of the 15th century.

In the middle of the 15th century, a benefit was established for the church , which was held by Protestant clergy from 1550 to 1625 . During this time, older frescoes were whitewashed, which were rediscovered during the restoration in 1985.

After the charity foundation, construction of the two-aisled nave began in 1450 and the existing chapel was converted into a choir . In 1476 the new church was consecrated. Baroque additions such as the sacristy and the oratory followed in the 17th and 18th centuries . In 1925 a narrow, octagonal tower with an onion helmet was built in the west facade , which replaced towers from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Under Emperor Josef II , St. Ulrich was elevated to the status of a parish church in the course of the Josephine reforms in 1785. After the beneficiary Sebastian Schwarz established the first child preservation institution in the immediate vicinity in 1842 and founded the Franciscan Order of the Vöcklabruck School Sisters in 1850 , efforts were made until 1965 to enlarge the parish church, which was too small, or to replace it with a new building.

Building description

Southwest view of the parish church of St. Ulrich

The late Gothic hall church consists of a two-aisled and three-bay nave with a reticulated and star-ribbed vault , built in the 4th quarter of the 15th century, and a single-bay, Gothic choir with a 5/8 end and ribbed vault . It emerged from the first Gothic chapel, built around 1360 and is therefore lower and narrower than the later nave. The two-storey, four-axis, baroque gallery stands on three pillars in the west of the nave.

Furnishing

The baroque high altar dates from around 1760. The master of the high altar painting is unknown; the statues of St. Christophorus (left) and St. Florian and the Throne Angels are attributed to Schwanthaler's workshop. The left side altar with an altarpiece by Bartholomäus Altomonte (around 1760) is dedicated to St. Sebastian , the right one with an altarpiece by Bernhard Schmidt from Gmunden, St. Consecrated to Joseph .

The four glass windows in the choir and the six in the nave from 1922 are the work of the Rhineland glass painter Josef Raukamp (* 1880), who bought a glass painting in Linz in 1915. The 14 paintings of the Stations of the Cross on the nave wall and the lower gallery parapet were created by Anton Fölsch in 1872. The fresco The Good Shepherd in the Triumphal Arch was painted in 1936 by the Linz artist Alfred Stifter (1904–2003) in an approach to Art Nouveau .

The Lourdes Chapel , originally an Anna chapel with barrel vaults and stitch caps, was built directly on the city wall around 1660. Around 1930 it was converted into the Lourdes Chapel.

The organ from 1878 is the work of Johann Nepomuk Carl (1818–1884) from the Mauracher family of organ builders (Fügener Line). In 1993 the workshop of the master organ builder SF Blank from Lingewaal in Holland built a new work into the existing case.

The old bells were melted down during the First and Second World Wars. In 1987 four new bells were purchased from the Salzburg bell foundry Oberascher (weighing between 120 and 590 kg).

Picture gallery

  • View towards the choir with the fresco by Alfred Stifter

  • View to the west - the two-storey gallery

  • Baroque high altar from around 1760

  • The Lourdes Chapel

literature

  • Christian Art Centers in Austria No. 458; Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 2006, ISBN 3-9501654-4-4 .

Web links

Commons : Stadtpfarrkirche Vöcklabruck  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vöcklabruck.at: parish church / St. Ulrich church , voecklabruck.at; accessed on January 1 2012
  2. ^ The town and parish of Vöcklabruck up to the end of the Thirty Years War , Chapter 6 , voecklabruck.at
  3. ↑ Friends of the Franciscan Sisters: Sebastian Schwarz (1809–1870)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.franziskanerinnen.at   . Retrieved December 31, 2011
  4. ↑ Franziskanerinnen Vöcklabruck: We about us . Retrieved December 31, 2011
  5. ↑ Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio-Handbuch. The art monuments of Austria. Upper Austria , Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1971, 5th edition, p. OA
  6. ↑ A. Stifter: Pictures of Life. Josef Raukamp on his 70th birthday. In: Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter , Volume 6, Issue 1, p. 65, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at

Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 26.4 "  N , 13 ° 39 ′ 16.5"  E