Assumption of Mary (Our Lady in the Forest)
The Church of the Assumption in the faction Our Senale the church Our Lady of the forest-St. Felix am Deutschnonsberg in South Tyrol is the parish church for the parish of Our Lady in the Forest and at the same time a well-known pilgrimage church of Mary . It is a listed building.
Location and architecture
The church is at the northern end of the village. It is the northernmost church in the Non Valley and, at 1355 m, also the highest. The distance to the Gampenpass is two kilometers.
The outside of the church is a simple three-aisled hall building with six Gothic pillars on the windowless north side. It does not have a choir annex , but a five- eighth end that extends over all three naves and has pointed arched windows on the sloping sides .
The square tower with a pyramid dome as well as a mechanical and sundial on the south side is integrated into the church building at the south-west corner. Covered entrances can be found on the west and south sides. The latter has a supporting pillar and two differently shaped pointed arched windows as well as the addition of the sacristy . The three naves have ribbed vaults .
Furnishing
High altar
Image of grace of the Mother of God
Side altars Pietà and Josephi
The furnishings of the church, especially its altars, are baroque . In the high altar from 1748 the miraculous image of the Mother of God appears in the gilded shrine above the tabernacle . The statues of St. Augustine and St. Ambrosius stand between the side columns , flanked by medallions with secrets of the rosary . In the upper part there is an image of the Trinity . The church fathers Gregory the Great and Jerome stand on two of the pillars .
Saints Catherine and Augustine are depicted on a side altar on the south wall . In the lower part there is a copy of the Mariahilf picture by Lucas Cranach the Elder from the Innsbruck Cathedral . The essay shows the baptism of Jesus by John .
The north side wall of the church is adorned with three baroque altars. The left “to the seven sorrows of Mary” shows a Pietà as the main motif , surrounded by secrets of the rosary. In the essay, the heart of Mary appears pierced by seven swords. In the middle, the Josephial tariff, Joseph is shown with the baby Jesus in his arms, including the archangel Michael , the abbot Antonius and St. Leonhard . Saints Sebastian and Rochus are depicted on the right side altar . On the sides are the bishop sculptures of Vigilius of Trento and Zeno of Verona .
Surroundings of the church
The church is connected to the rectory via an archway . The funeral chapel with the statues of the Holy Guardian Angel and the Heart of Jesus is attached to its north-western corner. The renovated Widumstadel, which belongs to the rectory, has been available for events since 2013 ,
history
A document from 1184 mentions a small hospice run by the hospitallers who helped travelers to cross the Gampenpass in adverse conditions. In 1224 an Augustinian monastery was built , which in 1321 was subordinated to the Augustinian canon monastery on the Au in Bozen . With the dissolution of this monastery and the later takeover by the Benedictines from the Swiss monastery of Muri , responsibility for the pilgrimage site in the upper Non Valley came to this order.
Since the tower dates back to Romanesque times, the nave was rebuilt in the Gothic style at the beginning of the 15th century. This building, which has been preserved to this day, was consecrated on June 10, 1432 by Bernhard von Cles , Bishop of Trento . In the 17th and 18th centuries the baroque interior was completed.
The parish church, together with the cemetery chapel and the cemetery, has been a listed building since 1981.
literature
- Pilgrimage church "Maria Himmelfahrt" , parish of Our Lady in the Forest (online)
Web links
- Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office
- The pilgrimage church. Retrieved June 29, 2017 .
- Surroundings of the church. Retrieved June 29, 2017 .
Coordinates: 46 ° 30 ′ 42.7 ″ N , 11 ° 6 ′ 32.1 ″ E