Parish church of Silz
| Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul
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| Denomination : | Roman Catholic |
| Patronage : | Peter and Paul |
| Consecration date : | November 14, 1847 |
| Parish : | Parish of Silz |
| Address: | Tiroler Strasse 1, 6424 Silz |
Coordinates: 47 ° 15 '54.9 " N , 10 ° 55' 39.5" E
The parish church of Silz is located in the Austrian municipality of Silz in Tyrol . The Roman Catholic parish church of Sts. Peter and Paul belong to the dean's office of Silz in the diocese of Innsbruck . The church is a listed building .
Building history
The parish church of Silz, consecrated to the apostles Peter and Paul, was built between 1846 and 1848 in place of an older building under the direction of the builder Benedikt Perwög . Originally, the building, designed by the architect Alois Haas for 1,400 people, was supposed to have been a lot bigger when it was actually built, but the government was unable to obtain approval for this project. Although the revised Haas' plans proved to be functional and feasible from a technical point of view, the initiators of the new church building, above all Pastor Peter Span, had to struggle with great resistance in their own parish. Again and again there were unsightly arguments between supporters and opponents of the new church building, which culminated in numerous complaints to the gubernium. The government finally put an abrupt end to this dispute with the decree of September 26, 1845, by ordering the construction to be carried out immediately, regardless of the other objections of the opposing parties. The day this decree was issued, the demolition of the old chapel began. After the demolition of the old church, the new building could finally be started. Just six months after the foundation stone was laid on July 2, 1846, the shell of the new church was completed and the tower was erected up to the height of the church roof. On All Saints' Day in 1847, the interior work was so advanced that the parish could move into the church. It was consecrated on November 14, 1847 by the abbot of Stams monastery.
Building description
The parish church in Silz gets its characteristic appearance from the vestibule in front of the nave and running across it with a double gallery above . This structure is divided into three parts by the mighty tower rising above the entrance portal. Its functionality and architectural concept are reminiscent of a westwork (which is here in the north due to the south of the church). The striking exterior of the parish church in Silz gives the viewer the impression of standing in front of a cathedral . The pleasant vanilla yellow paint on the facade harmonises with the color of the corner pilasters and window reveals , which are painted in a contrasting shade of brown. The roof of the church tower is closed by a lantern with Gothic style elements. The top of this polygonal roof element is crowned by a tower button with an attached cross.
Interior
The visitor enters the hall church , built in the neo-Romanesque style, through the simple entrance portal facing the main road and arrives in an unadorned vestibule, from which two stairways lead into the lofts of the church above. After passing the entrance area, the three-aisled nave opens in front of him and is vaulted by two umbrella domes. Like the transverse barrels of the aisles, these domes are supported by four mighty pillars. The choir, which is drawn in across the width of the nave, is raised by five steps and vaulted with a longitudinal barrel into which the stitch caps cut. Behind a belt arch that separates the nave from the presbytery is the apse with the high altar . The altar panel is adorned with a painting by the Nazarene artist Franz Hellweger , depicting the church patrons Peter and Paul and St. Dominic, with the Mother of God enthroned with the baby Jesus above them. The wooden sculptures on the high altar were created by Josef Miller , a student of the Imst sculptor Franz Xaver Renn . The statues on the side altars were made by Renn himself. The subjects of the side altars were designed by Caspar Jele . They show Joseph, the foster father, on his deathbed and on the other side St. Aloisius.
The ceiling painting in the presbytery shows the handover of the keys by Christ to Peter. It was designed by Josef Arnold the Elder. Elderly painted around 1850. "King David" (above the organ) and "Christ appears to the apostles" (above the entrance to the sacristy) are further works by this artist in Silz.
The as yet unpainted areas in the nave and presbytery were decorated with pictures in the Nazarene style by the history painter Heinrich Kluibenschedl and Emanuel Raffeiner at the turn of the century . The nave domes show scenes from the lives of the apostles Peter and Paul. The mural to the right of the high altar, depicting Christ with the apostles washing their feet, is not one of Kluibenschedl's best works. Two stations of the Cross, which the artist added to Peter Valentin's 14 stations, should be mentioned as a special feature. They show the entombment of Christ and the finding of the cross by St. Helena.
During the Easter period, a “holy grave” is built in the parish church . The painting work also comes from the Rietz painter Kluibenschedl.
In the openings in the side aisle walls, so-called "Farggelen" are kept in lockable boxes, these are statues that are carried along during processions. During the last restoration of the parish church, the pulpit was reattached and re-gilded. As a counterpart, a wooden statue of the Madonna was placed on the pillar opposite. It was carved by Josef Bachlechner .
The parish church in Silz also has some modern works of art. Particularly noteworthy are the attributes for the people's altar: ambo , candlestick, antependium and priest's bench by Ilse Glaninger-Balzar, as well as the picture of the martyr priest Otto Neururer by Elmar Peintner .
organ
The organ on the gallery was put together from old and new parts in the 1880s by master organ builder Franz Weber from Oberperfuß. After several renovations and repairs, the instrument was given modern technical equipment by the Pirchner organ building company in 1991 .
Bells
Silz has the largest bell in the Upper Inn Valley. It was cast in the Oberascher bell foundry in 1955 , weighs 4,061 kilograms and is popularly known as the " Pummerin of the Upper Inn Valley" because of its deep sound . Together with four bells from the Grassmayr bell foundry , it forms the imposing bell choir of the Silz parish church. The death knell was cast in 1791.
gallery
lobby
Central nave with a view of the high altar
Side altar on the left
High altar with the altar sheet by Franz Hellweger
Side altar on the right
Umbrella domes in the central nave
Double gallery
literature
- Village book of Silz (November 2015): Contributions by the local chronicler Johann Zauner on the history of the parish and the dean's office in Silz, the building history of the parish church and its works of art; Pp. 336-375
- Walter Rampl: A house full of glory looks (2009). All churches of Tyrol, vol. 3, districts Imst, Landeck, Reutte, p. 97f.
- Tyrol Lexicon by Gertrud Pfaundler-Spat (2005)
- Monika Soffner-Loibl: Parish Silz; Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul. Passau, Art Publishing House Peda (1992)
- Hans Hochenegg: The churches of Tyrol (1935); Deanery Silz, p. 172
- Parish chronicle Silz written by Dean Josef Sparber (1929)
- Topographical-historical-statistical description of the diocese of Brixen by G. Tinkhauser (1886), vol. 3, parish Silz, p. 191 ff.
