Birth of Mary (Traunwalchen)

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Parish Church of Traunwalchen
High altar with Madonna from the 15th century
Copper engraving (17th century) with scenes from the founding history of the Marian pilgrimage in Traunwalchen
Interior towards the organ
Interior with the 3 altars

The Birth of Mary in Traunwalchen , a Catholic parish and former pilgrimage church , is located in the upper village of the district of the city of Traunreut in the Upper Bavarian district of Traunstein . It was rebuilt on the foundations of a late Gothic church from 1833 to 1834, the tower dates from 1717. The church is a monument of the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments .

history

790 Traunwalchen and its surroundings are mentioned for the first time in the Salzburg document Notitia Arnonis . It is no longer possible to trace when the first church in town was built. The church should have belonged to the parish of St. Georgen . For these, the first precisely dated message goes back to Bishop Adalbert von Salzburg . In a document recorded in the Salzburg document book under I / 96 from the year 928, a church of St. Georgen is mentioned (ad sanctum Georgium) . In the same document book on p. 235 there is no reference to the parish church until 1041 (in locco ad sanctum Georgium) . In any case, the church in Traunwalchen has been cared for by conventuals of the Baumburg monastery since 1183 at the latest .

In 1345 the Kirchstätt branch church, built in the middle of a clearing of the “Weitholz”, is inaugurated. Around 1450 the enigmatic Traunwalchen disc cross was built on the cemetery wall. It is unique of its kind in Upper Bavaria.

Only the Madonna from the end of the 15th century has survived from the Gothic church of that time. The oldest entry in the “Traunwalchener Mirakelbuch ” dates from 1507 . Almost 900 incidents tell of the late medieval pilgrimage to Traunwalchen. In 1551, after decades of legal dispute, part of the village of Traunwalchen had to be given up by the Wittelsbachers , represented by their keeper in Traunstein . The upper village with the church was incorporated into the domain of the Hofmark Pertenstein , which belongs to the Lords of Toerring.

In 1606 the Frauenbrunn chapel was built near the village of Traunwalchen over a spring . The pilgrimage to Traunwalchen thus took off strongly. The striking church tower was built in 1717, with a new octagonal bell chamber with a double onion top. In 1768, Trostberg-based Rococo artist Johann Georg Kapfer worked on the new high altar for the Traunwalchen church. His work has been preserved to this day.

In 1805, after the abolition of the Baumburg monastery , Traunwalchen was raised to its own royal parish. In 1808 the church in Kirchstätt was demolished as part of the anti-church policies of the early 19th century. In 1818, with the Bavarian municipal edict, the former main team was transformed into a political municipality. From 1833 to 1834, the Kirchstätter church was rebuilt by local farmers on the basis of a vow.

In 1839 the nave of the parish church was rebuilt. In 1904 the Baroque style took place and in 1905 for the parish centenary, Pastor Lohr's Brief History of the Parish of Traunwalchen appeared .

The stained glass windows of the parish church were broken during the demolition after the Second World War. In 1971 the Traunwalchner church was renovated again, the ailing side altars were removed. With the opening of a new communal cemetery in Traunwalchner Unterdorf in 1972, the right to burial in the church cemetery expired.

In the 1990s the side altars in the parish church were put up again. In 2005 the church tower had to be renovated, the top dome was removed and put back on after an extensive renovation.

The new organ from Orgelbau Osterhammer, Prien, and was inaugurated on April 13, 2009 by Auxiliary Bishop Franz Dietl .

Burials have been possible again in the church cemetery since January 2017.

Building description

The church is a listed building and forms an ensemble with the old cemetery and the rectory (file numbers D-1-89-154-54, -55 and -60). The description of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation reads:

“Catholic parish church of the Birth of Mary, choir and lower floor of the tower late Gothic, 15th century, upper floor of the tower baroque, all other components from 1837–1839; with equipment.

Cemetery at the parish church, laid out in 1854 ff. And expanded in 1882/1883; Enclosure wall with crypt arcade hall in front of the south and south parts of the west and east side as well as Kreuzkapelle, 1853/1854, with tombstone Harner 1502/1515, priest memorial and grave monuments from the late 19th to early 20th century, enclosure wall on the north side and the north part of the West and east side, with Thujen planting, 1882/1883 (cemetery expansion), including the grave monuments of the 19th / 20th centuries Century; Red marble stairs on the north side and granite stairs on the west and east side, the latter flanked by four plague columns, 16./17. Century; War memorial at the east end of the choir; Mortuary, early 20th century; Atonement Cross (Kreuzstein), medieval, on the northeast corner of the cemetery.

Rectory, two-storey with a hipped shingle roof, 1808/1811. "

literature

  • Johannes Danner: 1200 years of Traunwalchen. From the history of a region on the Traun. Trostberg 1990, ISBN 3-925-249-16-8 .
  • Johannes Danner: Parish Church of the Birth of Mary - Frauenbrunn - Church Kirchstätt. Three outstanding architectural monuments in the parish of Traunwalchen. Traunstein 1995.
  • Johannes B. Lohr: Brief history of the parish Traunwalchen. Munich 1905.

Web links

Commons : Nativity of Mary  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meinrad Schroll: St. Georgen has existed for 1050 years. In: Chiemgau leaves. Supplement to the Traunsteiner Wochenblatt. Year 1979, No. 16, April 21, 1979, pp. 1-6.
  2. ^ Georg Brenninger: Directory of the miracle books in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. P. 212.
  3. ↑ New and restored organs in the archdiocese: Parish Church of the Birth of Mary in Traunwalchen. Retrieved April 22, 2020.
  4. ↑ Burials are possible again in the church cemetery. In: Traunsteiner Tagblatt from March 23, 2020, accessed on April 22, 2020.
  5. ↑ List of monuments for Traunreut (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation

Coordinates: 47 ° 56 ′ 21.3 "  N , 12 ° 36 ′ 6.9"  E