Liebfrauenkirche Bischofshofen

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Liebfrauenkirche, to the right of it the parish church of St. Maximilian (2011)

The Filialkirche Our Dear Lady , locally simply Frauenkirche , is a Roman Catholic church in the town of Bischofshofen in the St. Johann im Pongau district in the State of Salzburg . The church is a listed building .

history

Pre-churches can be traced back to around 1000 based on findings, but evidence of Roman masonry was also found. Presumably it was used as a Leutekirche for the population after the Maximilianskirche was used as a monastery church. It served as a burial place from the 11th century, and as a parish church until around 1403. The first documentary mention is 1359. The building in its present appearance dates, apart from the older building remains, from the 1st half of the 15th century (choir 1440, nave a little later). Until 1403 this church was the parish church of the place, today's Maximilianskirche the monastery church of the Augustinians (dissolution and conversion into the administrative court of the Chiemsee bishops ).

Today the church is no longer used regularly for church services, but the Protestant parishes of Bischofshofen and St. Johann im Pongau , whose two churches are too small, celebrate confirmations here .

architecture

The branch church is elevated on a step to the west of the parish church of St. Maximilian. The Gothic church building under a gable roof has stepped buttresses and pointed arched windows with neo-Gothic tracery. There are fresco fragments from around 1300 on the outside and on the southern buttress of the choir a Gothic fresco Gregory Mass from 1457. From the outside there is also an exit to the crypt of the church.

Exit on the south wall of the church to the crypt

In front of the beveled portal in the west stands the tower with four storeys divided by cornices. Three pointed arches lead to the tower hall, the south-facing one is marked 1522. The tower has triforated windows with two round columns each, above triangular gables and an octagonal slender spire.

The single-storey sacristy with rectangular windows, pent roof and barrel vault is attached to the north of the nave. The crypt under the end of the choir has a pointed arch portal and a ribbed vault on consoles.

The rectangular single-nave two-bay nave has a Gothic ribbed vault as a four-pointed star configuration on services and fluted pillars. On the vault there are relief belts and Gothic keystones. The ogival sacristy portal has an iron plate door. The two-storey gallery is partly provided with Gothic carving. The triumphal arch is ogival. The retracted two-bay choir with a 3/8 end has a Gothic ribbed vault with round keystones on services.

Furnishing

On the inside of the north wall of the nave is a Gothic fresco, above a Christ enthroned with the hll. Katharina, Maria and Johannes, below the hll. Sebastian, Bishop, Georg, Dionysius and Erasmus, around 1420. The fresco of the Madonna in the protective cloak comes from another hand. On the north wall of the choir are fragments of frescoes from the 16th century with a baroque frame.

High altar of the Liebfrauenkirche

The baroque high altar from 1648 shows the altar sheet Maria with child surrounded by angels and below the hll. Barbara and Katharina and in the upper picture a globe that is protected from the wrath of God by Maria, Dominikus and Francis of Assisi. The renaissance tabernacle dates from 1618 and is one of the oldest in the state of Salzburg. The left baroque side altar, marked 1680 on the left, shows pictures of the hll in the base area. Peter, Johannes Evangelist, Wolfgang and Elisabeth and between fluted columns the baroque altarpiece hll. Anna, Maria and Joachim, and on the side pictures hll. Paul and James, in the upper picture flight to Egypt. The baroque side altar on the right, with Predella inscription and marked 1685, shows the pictures hll in the panels. John the Baptist, Elisabeth, Anna selbdritt, Joachim and Zacharias and in the baroque altarpiece death of St. Joseph by the painter Adam Pichler (1695), the upper picture shows God the Father over the waters. The wall epitaphs as death signs from the Bischofshofen families and Kastner are of local historical importance .

The simple and unmounted pulpit with sound cover is marked 1647 and decorated with glued fretwork. In front of the triumphal arch there is a carving of St. Mary with child on a globe around 1660. In the sacristy there is a chalice box from 1681. The confessional and the choir stalls are from the middle of the 17th century.

literature

  • Catholic rectory in Bischofshofen: The churches of Bischofshofen , pp. 24 - 30 (= Austrian Christian Art Centers, No. 580). Publishing house St. Peter, Salzburg 2016.

Web links

Commons : Frauenkirche in Bischofshofen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

proof

  1. ↑ Esther Meier: The Gregorsmesse: Functions of a late medieval image type. , Böhlau Verlag Köln / Weimar, 2006, ISBN 978-341211805-1 , pp. 203 f. ( limited preview in the Google book search) - with a more detailed description, but wrongly located in Styria.

Coordinates: 47 ° 24 '53.7 "  N , 13 ° 13' 1.8"  E