Loretto Chapel (Thaur)

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Loretto Chapel in Thaur

The Roman Catholic church Maria Loretto in the municipality of Thaur bei Hall in Tirol was originally a Marian shrine and a local pilgrimage site .

history

The Loreto worship ( Santa Casa ), originally from Italy, was carried over the Alps by Jesuits during the Counter Reformation .

The church was donated by Archduke Ferdinand II and built in 1589. The country road to Hall - today's federal road Innsbruck - Hall ( B171 , here Hallerstraße / Innsbrucker Straße ) - was built in 1585–1589 through the Innauen as a supplement to the older, higher-lying road over the (today so-called) MARTHA villages in the northern low mountain range of the Inn Valley has been traced. The church was lonely in the still densely wooded Haller Au in the early modern times . The 15 wayside shrines on Hallerstraße also remind of its function as a place of pilgrimage .

A chaplaincy was also founded in 1590 .

With the abolition of the Jesuit order, the Franciscans (OFM) based in Hall took over the care of the church. The importance of Maria Loretto in Thaur - the oldest Loreto-Marien-Pilgrimage in German-speaking countries - was lost at the turn of the 19th century with the rise of the nearby Absam as a place of pilgrimage.

The area of ​​the church is located today as an exclave of Thaur in the middle of Haller municipality area and forms the cadastral municipality Thaur II with 0.45  hectares . The southern Thaur fields had come to Hall.

Buildings

The Loretto Church

The small church in late Renaissance style was built in 1589 to 1590. The windowless nave and the tower foundation are decorated with massive reddish ashlars. A steep gable roof and the pointed-helmet tower rise above it. The portal is from Nagelfluh . The roof, helmet and upper floor of the tower were last shingled in 2012 .

The interior has a barrel vault with a continuous profiled cornice. The columnar altar is still the original of the Renaissance and originally comes from the Haller Damenstift

Former priest residence

Today's inn by the church ( Loretto area  1) was originally the priest's house. It was built in 1723 and was designed by the court architect Georg Anton Gumpp .

The homestead-like building is an ensemble of a two-storey main building and single-storey side buildings in L-conditioning, with blended over the building structures, Gaupen occupied hipped roofs , and clear window and floor tape outline . The portal has a narrow bevelled breccia garb . The appearance of the typical baroque house was changed significantly in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Station routes

An important station path comes from Innsbruck, which dates from the time it was built. These shrines on Hallerstrasse contain 15 portraits of the secrets of the rosary .

A way of the cross also ran into the town of Thaur, along today's Lorettostraße over the Thaur fields . This is still reminiscent of the field name Am Kreuzweg , which can be found in the 3rd state survey (around 1870) and also in a map from 1952. It was probably connected to the Thaurer Kalvarienberg .

literature

  • Josef Bertsch (Ed.): Dorfbuch Thaur . Innsbruck 2002, various pp.

Web links

Commons : Lorettokapelle Thaur  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Krinzinger, Schmid-Pittl: Wegkapelle, Maria Loreto chapel, Loreto chapel. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved March 18, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Bundesdenkmalamt, Land Tirol: Kulturberichte aus Tirol 2012: 63rd Monument Report , June 2012, photo p. 112 ( pdf , tirol.gv.at).
  3. ^ Dehio Tirol. Verlag Anton Schroll & Co. Vienna 1980, pp. 804-808.
  4. ^ A b Frick, Schmid-Pittl: Gasthaus, former Loreto inn. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved March 18, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Third land survey 1864/1887, data status 1870/1873, scale 1: 25,000; and US Army Map Service: Austria (AMS Series M871) 1952, scale 1: 25,000 ( layer online at TIRIS: Historische Kartenwerke Tirol ).

Coordinates: 47 ° 16 '35.71 "  N , 11 ° 28' 47.81"  O