Martinskirche (Linz)

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Martinskirche

The Martinskirche is located in downtown Linz in Upper Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Martin am Römerberg belongs to the dean's office in Linz-Mitte in the Linz diocese . The church is a listed building .

history

The inner

Martinskirche has long been considered the oldest preserved church in Austria, but according to recent research it is no longer tenable.

The first documentary mention dates back to the year 799. In the course of the preparations for the fight against the Avars , the Bavarian prefect Gerold the Younger († September 1, 799), who was entrusted with leading the campaign, expressed interest in St. Martin. He asked his brother-in-law, King Karl, to intervene with Bishop Waldrich von Passau to let him have the house of God as a beneficiary for life. In the course of a diocesan synod or a meeting in Treisma , a corresponding document was drawn up on June 20, 799, the oldest copy of which from the 9th century is kept in the Bavarian Main State Archives in Munich .

In the following centuries there were multiple changes and extensions. a. to a central building with an unfinished cloverleaf floor plan. In the 15th century the church was finally rebuilt in the Gothic style. In 1589 the west wall was removed down to the foundations and rebuilt, whereby the south entrance, which had been in use since 799, was replaced by a west portal.

During the occupation of Linz in the War of Austrian Succession by the French and Bavarians, the church was used as a horse stable in 1742, and then from 1810 to 1832 as a military depot. When the church was renovated in 1841, the western entrance was renewed.

The older Carolingian central building was excavated in 1978.

architecture

The current floor plan results from a reconstruction probably in the 10th or 11th century. The earliest remains of the wall from the Romanesque era suggest a rectangular hall with a choir screen.

Furnishing

Inside you can see frescoes from the 14th and 15th centuries as well as Roman tombstones with inscriptions from the 3rd century and Gothic wooden sculptures.

See also

literature

  • Josef Simbrunner: The Church of St. Martin in Linz in the light of the document from June 20, 799. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Linz 2019, pp. 69-77 ( PDF on land-oberoesterreich.gv.at).
  • Willibald Katzinger : Linz without phantom time. In: Historical yearbook of the city of Linz. Linz 2004, pp. 327-340 ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
  • Franz Juraschek : Paths that lead to Martinskirche. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Linz 1956, pp. 84–94 ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
  • Franz Juraschek: The building history of the Martinskirche in the high and late Middle Ages. In: Yearbook of the City of Linz 1950. Linz 1951, pp. 373–404 ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
  • Wilhelm Jenny : News on Roman and early medieval Linz (addendum to Martinskirche). In: Yearbook of the City of Linz 1949. Linz 1950, pp. 288–298 ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).

Web links

Commons : Martinskirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Simbrunner 2019, p. 71f.
  2. ↑ Katzinger 2003, p. 334.
  3. ↑ Juraschek 1956, pp. 86, 89 and 94.
  4. ↑ a b Martinskirche. In: stadtgeschichte.linz.at. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
  5. ^ Artur Betz: A Roman inscription stone from the Martinskirche in Linz. In: Historisches Jahrbuch der Stadt Linz 1957. Linz 1957, pp. 341–344 ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).

Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 16 ″  N , 14 ° 16 ′ 45 ″  E