List of parishes in the Silz deanery

The Silz deanery is a deanery of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Innsbruck .

Parishes with church buildings

parish	Pastoral care room	Ink.	Patronage	Church building	image
Barwies	Mieminger Plateau (Barwies - Mieming - Wildermieming)		Trinity	Barwies parish church
Gurgl			Johannes Nepomuk	Parish church Obergurgl
Haiming	Haiming (Haiming - Haimingerberg - Ochsengarten - Ötztal train station)		Chrysanthus and Daria	Parish Church of Haiming Expositurkirche Haimingerberg
Huben in the Ötztal	Längenfeld (Gries-Sulztal - Huben - Längenfeld)		Martin of Tours	Parish church Huben in the Ötztal
Längenfeld	Längenfeld (Gries-Sulztal - Huben - Längenfeld)		Catherine of Alexandria	Parish church Längenfeld Kaplaneikirche Gries in the Sulztal
Mieming	Mieminger Plateau (Barwies - Mieming - Wildermieming)		Assumption Day	Parish church Untermieming Branch church Obermieming
Mötz			Maria Snow	Parish church Mötz Pilgrimage church Locherboden Original chapel Locherboden Night pilgrimage chapel Locherboden Chapel Birgele
Obsteig			Joseph of Nazareth	Parish church Obsteig
Ox garden	Haiming (Haiming - Haimingerberg - Ochsengarten - Ötztal train station)		Visitation of the Virgin Mary	Ochsengarten parish church
Oetz	Ötz - Sautens		Georg and Nikolaus von Myra	Parish church Oetz
Ötztal train station	Haiming (Haiming - Haimingerberg - Ochsengarten - Ötztal train station)		Joseph the worker	Parish church Ötztal-Bahnhof
Sautens	Ötz - Sautens		Visitation of the Virgin Mary	Sautens parish church
Silz			Peter and Paul	Parish church of Silz Expositurkirche Kühtai Hofkapelle Kühtai
Soelden			Visitation of the Virgin Mary	Parish Church of Sölden Kaplaneikirche Heiligkreuz
Stams		Stams Abbey	John the Baptist	Parish Church of Stams
Tumpen	Umhausen - Tumpen - Köfels - Niederthai		Martin of Tours	Parish Church of Tumpen
Umhausen	Umhausen - Tumpen - Köfels - Niederthai		Vitus	Parish Church Umhausen Expositurkirche Köfels Kaplaneikirche Niederthai
Vent			St. James	Parish Church of Vent
Wildermieming	Mieminger Plateau (Barwies - Mieming - Wildermieming)		Nicholas of Myra	Wildermieming parish church

Deanery Silz

The deanery comprises 19 parishes, three branches and three chaplains.

history

The first pastor of Silz was a Magister Peter, who was named as a witness in an episcopal legal act in Brixen in 1233. In addition to the original parish of Silz, his pastoral care district also included the subsidiary churches Haiming, Ötz, Sautens, Umhausen, Längenfeld, Sölden, and - until the founding of the Stams monastery - the chapel of St. John the Baptist in Stams. This hierarchical order was suddenly turned upside down when Bishop Bruno von Brixen, with the consent of his chapter, separated the Johanneskapelle from the parish of Silz in 1272 and made it subordinate to the newly founded Stams monastery. As patron saints , the prelates of Stams were entitled to supervise the administration of church property and compliance with church regulations, to issue dispensations and to regulate other parish affairs in the above-mentioned church districts. Since the monastery superiors interpreted these rights very broadly and claimed freedoms in their territory that otherwise only a bishop is entitled to, serious disagreements repeatedly occurred with the pastor of Silz. Since the parish administrator of Silz was only appointed by the monastery as “vicarius ad nutum amovibilis” (available at any time), he had to expect his dismissal overnight if his administration did not correspond to the abbot's ideas. The vicars in Silz tried to shake off this dependence by turning to the consistory in Brixen for help after a disciplinary measure by the abbot . Since this ecclesiastical authority was interested in suppressing the monastic freedoms in the diocese and expanding its own position of power, its complaints were often crowned with success. The exemption dispute that developed between the Stams monastery and the Bishop of Brixen was only resolved under Abbot Georg Nussbaumer III. decided by Stams. On this occasion, the parish relations between the monastery and the parish of Silz were placed on a new basis. A relic from the founding time of the monastery is the right of the prelates of Stams to propose a suitable candidate to the bishop when appointing a new pastor in Silz ( right of presentation ).

In 1858 a separate dean's office was established in Silz, separated from the dean's office Flaurling , to which 22 pastoral care stations belonged at the time. The seat of the deanery was the parish of Silz from 1858 to 2014.

Deans

• 1858–1868 Josef Öttl from Kappl
• 1868–1887 Alois Vogl
• 1888–1894 Johann Tschuggmall
• 1894–1913 Alois Schönherr
• 1913–1938 Josef Sparber
• 1938–1960 Raimund Wallnöfer
• 1960–1973 Anton Draxl
• 1974–2015 Josef Tiefenthaler
• since 2015 Stefan Hauser, pastor in Längenfeld

Web links

• Map of the Dean's Office, as of October 1, 2013

Individual evidence

1. ^ Announcement of the k. k. Lieutenancy for Tyrol and Vorarlberg of April 27, 1858, regarding the establishment of a new deanery and school district inspectorate in Silz. "ALEX Historical Legal and Legal Texts Online"