Nikolauskirche (Bad Gastein)
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The branch church of St. Nikolaus is a Roman Catholic church in Bad Gastein in the state of Salzburg .
The late Gothic church, built around 1400, was first mentioned in 1412 and was a pastoral church until 1639 . It was renovated in 1893 and restored from 1950 to 1953.
location
The church on a hillside at the northern exit of Bad Gastein next to the road to the Badbruck district is surrounded by a cemetery.
architecture
The nave over a square floor plan has a retracted choir with a polygonal end under a steep gable roof. In the south there is a triple grooved round arch portal with a rod and in the north a round arched portal closed with a rectangle with corner consoles and cornice framing. There are stepped fluted buttresses and a coffin cornice at the choir.
The north tower is undivided and has bi-ore windows in the south and north and narrow arched windows in the east and west and closes with clipped gables and an octagonal shingled pointed spire.
The nave is a square one-pillar room with a vault rising from a central column with an octagonal star configuration. The triumphal arch is fluted and ogival. The retracted choir has a floor raised by three steps and a ribbed vault with round keystones on services. On the left in the choir is a grooved sacristy portal with a straight end and corner consoles with a late Gothic iron plate door and a chamfered rectangular sacrament house. In the sacristy there is a barrel vault with stitch caps and a sacristy box from the beginning of the 17th century.
Furnishing
Late Gothic wall paintings in the nave from the 2nd half of the 15th century in the southeast corner show Christ in the mandorla , the twelve apostles and the Last Judgment, on the south wall the root Jesse and a donor figure with the coat of arms of the Framynnger family named 1517. In the northeast corner, frescoes from around 1470 to 1480 by the master von Schöder show partially preserved in fragments: Christ on the Mount of Olives, the flagellation and crowning of thorns, the carrying of the cross, the crucifixion, Christ brings Adam and Eve out of Limbo into the Transfiguration, the Resurrection and Ascension. Late Gothic frescoes in the choir show the manna blessing, the protective mantle Madonna, Saints Sebastian, Peter and Paul, representations from the life of St. Nicholas and angels in the vaulted areas with the passion tools.
The restoration of the frescoes was initiated by the Rotary Club Bad Gastein on the occasion of the 600th anniversary celebration in 1989 and largely financed as a long-term project. One third of the total of ATS 3 million was raised by the Rotary Club Bad Gastein.
literature
- Dehio Salzburg 1986 , Badgastein, Filialkirche hl. Nikolaus, pp. 28-29.
- Fritz Gruber: Mosaic stones on the history of Gastein and its Salzburg area. Rotary Bad Gastein, Gastein 2012, ISBN 978-3-200-02728-2 , Mosaikstein 12, p. 81ff.
Coordinates: 47 ° 7 ′ 9.1 ″ N , 13 ° 8 ′ 19.1 ″ E
