Parish and pilgrimage church Attersee
The parish and pilgrimage church of Attersee , called Maria Attersee , with the patronage of the Assumption of Mary, is a Roman Catholic church in the Schörfling deanery of the Diocese of Linz . It stands northeast, high above the center of Attersee am Attersee on the historic Kirchberg and is a listed building .
history
The history of the parish began in 1007 when King Henry II. The dominion of the castle Atterseer the newly established Diocese of Bamberg under Bishop I. Eberhard gave. At that time, on the Burgberg, today's Kirchberg, there was Attersee Castle, the dominant center of the Attergau , where Bishop Eberhard founded a castle chapel around 1010. The Bamberg bishops built this castle into a mighty, medieval castle complex. In 1276 Attersee became a parish.
The castle fell into disrepair in the late Middle Ages. A Gothic parish church was built on the remains of the castle chapel in the 14th century . On August 15, 1652, the miraculous image of Mary in the sun was transferred to Attersee by the pastor of St. Georgen im Attergau , Anton Balster, and the church became a pilgrimage church .
Between 1721 and 1728, at the instigation of the patron saint Franz Ferdinand Anton Graf Khevenhüller, the complete conversion of the Gothic into a Baroque church was carried out by the builder Jakob Pawanger . During this renovation, the Gothic vault was replaced by a Baroque vault and the large side extensions and the mighty church tower with a baroque onion helmet were built.
Until 1813 the church was only a pilgrimage church, before it also became a parish church . The parish church of Attersee was the Martinskirche until 1813 , today a Protestant parish church, which is located southeast of the current Catholic parish church in the built-up area.
In 1910, the patron saint Theodora Countess Kottulinsky , née Freiin Mayr-Melnhof , ordered a restoration of the church out of special veneration for the Queen of Heaven . In 1957 the interior was restored.
Building description
Outside
Maria Attersee is a hall church . The nave has a simple facade and is covered with a gable roof. There are extensions of different heights on both sides; the upper aisle has tall, slender arched windows. The elongated choir in the east is slightly drawn in.
To the west, a slender tower with a baroque onion helmet from 1727 is built in front of the facade. The tower facade is divided into three vertical sections by corner pilaster strips , cordon cornices and plaster strips and has small slotted windows in the lower two sections. The sound storey has flock-framed arched windows with tower clocks above .
On both sides and on the west side of the tower there are vestibules with plaster band-structured facades, through which the tower ground floor is accessed. From here steps lead into the lower lying nave.
Inside
The three-bay long house is vaulted by a flat barrel with lance caps . The two-bay choir with side oratorios ends in a three-eighth closure with arched windows.
From the north side entrance in the tower porch, a two-flight staircase leads to the gallery and the oratorios.
The open gallery above an arcade supported by pillars has a baroque parapet protruding in the middle .
Furnishing
The late baroque high altar made of stucco marble was executed by Georg Paumeister between 1738 and 1739 according to a design by Joseph Mathias Götz from Sankt Nikola (Passau) . Above the tabernacle , in a rococo silver frame, is the miraculous image of Mary in the sun painted on fabric , flanked by two statues of Saints Anna and Elisabeth by Joseph Mathias Götz.
The side of the altar is closed by two baroque paintings, which show Saint Joseph (left) with old carpenter's tools at his feet and the priest Zacharias (right) revelating the birth of John in the temple. Above the miraculous image is a Gothic statue "Mary with Child Jesus" from the beginning of the 16th century in a Baroque revision from the 18th century, probably a remnant of the earlier, Gothic high altar.
The altarpiece is closed off by a volute gable with an oculus decorated with angels .
In the place on the high altar where the statue of the Virgin Mary is today, the altarpiece with the Baroque representation of the Trinity was until the church was restored in 1910. It was painted over in 1896 and restored in 2002. This altarpiece, signed “FX Gürter 1787”, is now in the back, on the right wall of the main nave under the window.
The people's altar, made by the Attersee master carpenter Robert Kollross, blends in harmoniously with the ambience of the rest of the interior of the church.
On the side walls above the communion bench stand two almost life-size console statues from the end of the 15th century. One depicts St. Peter (church patron of Bamberg) with the key to heaven as an attribute and the other represents St. Stephen (church patron of Passau) with stones in his right hand, symbolizing his stoning. The two statues indicate the historical ties between the parish and Bamberg and Passau and are part of the earlier Gothic high altar.
On the sounding board of the Rococo - pulpit by Joseph Mathias Götz from the time of Moses 1738/39 enthroned with the Tablets of the Law. He is surrounded by three dainty angel putti, which symbolize the three divine virtues of faith, hope and love.
Opposite the pulpit hangs a painting of St. Martin , the patron saint of the former parish church. This is now the parish church of the evangelical parish of the Attergau.
The two side altars date from the second quarter of the 18th century. The altar panel on the left side altar, flanked by baroque statues of Saints John Nepomuk and Barbara , shows Saint Mary Magdalene . A high relief from the end of the 15th century and part of the earlier, Gothic high altar depicts the Adoration of the Magi from the Orient. It was restored in 1956 and replaced by a high-quality duplicate.
On the altar panel of the right side altar, St. Jude Thaddäus is depicted flanked by baroque statues of St. Francis and St. Anthony . On both sides of the small tabernacle there were statuettes of the three Latin doctors of the church Ambrosius , Augustinus and Hieronymus by Meinrad Guggenbichler from around 1700. After the theft of the statuette of Augustine - the statuette could be recovered - the statuettes are placed under a secured glass cover .
The baroque pictures of the Stations of the Cross , restored in 2002, complete the interior of the church.
An altar of Mary with half- length portraits of the Fourteen Holy Helpers from the second third of the 18th century, the tomb of Pastor Anton Balster, who died in 1671, and his bust are in the left side aisle.
In the right side aisle are a rococo altar in the style of a “ Holy Sepulcher ”, the baptismal font and a large votive image “Mary with the ax”.
In the church vestibule is the Attersee community's war memorial for those who died in the two world wars . It shows Christ showing the soldiers kneeling in front of him the way to heaven.
organ
The organ built in 1874 by Carl Reppe in Ried im Innkreis with individual parts from the 17th century has a simple neo-Gothic case. The white-framed prospectus is divided by pilasters into three rectangular flat fields with nine pipes each. At the top, the fields have openwork, gilded veils and a profiled cornice to close the case. The middle field of pipes is elevated and is crowned by a flat, round arch with a gilded garland. In 2013 the instrument was restored by Orgelbau Kuhn AG. The disposition of the grown state and the historical substance were preserved, while the technical system was improved by reversible measures. The organ was inaugurated on July 27, 2014. The instrument has ten registers , which are distributed on a manual and pedal .
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Web links
- Attersee parish website accessed on October 5, 2014
- Bells of the parish church Attersee accessed on YouTube on October 5, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Dehio-Handbuch Oberösterreich Verlag Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 1956, p. 29
- ↑ Marble plaque inside the church
- ↑ a b "Maria Attersee" on attersee.salzkammergut.at accessed on October 4, 2014
- ↑ Organ restoration in the parish of Attersee ( memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 5, 2014.
- ↑ Report on the restoration on the Kuhn website, accessed on October 5, 2014
Coordinates: 47 ° 54'59 " N , 13 ° 32'23" E