Parish and pilgrimage church Kaltenberg
The parish and pilgrimage church of Kaltenberg is located in Kaltenberg in the municipality of Kaltenberg in the Freistadt district in Upper Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary belongs to the Deanery Unterweißbach in the Diocese of Linz . The church is a listed building . The church stands in a prominent position on the highest elevation in the area and is connected to the market town of Unterweißbach by a way of the cross with brick stations .
history
A pilgrimage was mentioned in documents in 1609. In 1658 a chapel was built. The pilgrimage church, built between 1781 and 1803, was elevated to a parish church in 1785. Restorations were in 1909, 1957, 1985.
architecture
The exterior of the church shows itself with the typically Josephinian modesty. Behind the gable facade with a slightly protruding facade tower follows a three-bay nave with rounded corners to the drawn-in elongated lower choir with the sacristy behind it with a three-sided end. The tower has a massive sound floor with arched windows and an onion helmet. The rectangular portal with the straight profiled lintel with the designation 1658 refers to the secondary use of the lintel from the previous chapel. Above the portal is a round arch niche with an enamel picture of Mary with the child. In the rectangular window above, a glass window depicting King David from 1991. The side fronts of the church have rectangular windows, the polygonal sacristy arched windows. In the western corner of the choir is a small extension. Above the nave is a hipped roof and above the choir is a hipped roof, designed as rafter roofs with standing chairs.
The nave has wide pillars with pilasters and cornices and is rounded in the corners towards the choir. The nave has groin vaults between double chords, the choir is vaulted with a square, the organ loft is vaulted under the cap, and the tower ground floor is barrel vaulted as a narrow entrance room. To the east of the tower is a side room and to the west is the staircase.
Furnishing
The interior is primarily designed in a simple manner and was shaped by the furnishings and colors from the late 19th century and equipped with numerous figures of saints. The historicist floral-ornamental ceiling painting was created in 1884 and 1909.
Remarkable neo-Romanesque-neo-Gothic interior thanks to the collaboration of the large altar workshops in Upper Austria with local craftsmen. The high altar from 1896 with a structure by Johann Weiß received figures from chapels in the area instead of the original figures by the sculptor Josef Kepplinger from 1893/1894. In the middle niche, Maria with child from 1425 with baroque crowns and to the side Anna and Joachim from the 2nd half of the 18th century and in the excerpt God the Father from the middle of the 18th century. The putti heads are from 1937. On the predella there are reliefs depicting the Emmaus disciples and the Passover festival. The tabernacle bears a crucifix from the 1930s. The pulpit by Josef Kepplinger (1893/1894) has a polygonal basket on columns with evangelist figures in front of blind arches and a staircase with tracery decoration. The back wall of the pulpit shows Moses and on the sound cover under a ciborium Christ Salvator. The side altar from 1919, which is equivalent to the pulpit, is a neo-Gothic retable from the Ploberger workshop in Linz with a high structure with two shrines one above the other. The predella relief is a war memorial Christ appears to a dying soldier , in the main shrine George kills the dragon .
As single figures there is the Holy. Josef and Johannes Evangelist under canopies by Josef Kepplinger (1893/1894). Holy Family around 1800. Child Jesus and Trinity from the 2nd half of the 18th century. Sacred Heart of Jesus by Klothilde Rauch from 1937. Crucifixes from the 18th and 19th centuries. A candlestick angel from the beginning of the 18th century, a holy grave from the Ploberger workshop from 1919, a Christmas crib from around 1900 are in custody. The neo-Gothic choir stalls, the pews and the confessional were built around 1900.
The parapet organ by Joachim Prugger (1789/1798) with a four-part prospectus with high outer towers was restored in 1989 by Bruno Riedl. Sting mechanism, short octave in the manual and pedal , unequal tuning, 1 manual / 8 registers .
There is a bell with a relief marked Mary and Child with 1832.
Chapel of origin
At the other end of the church village is the original chapel as a niche chapel, where, according to legend, in 1658 the Gothic figure of Mary and Child was recovered from the main altar of the church. The arbor on pillars was added in 1882. The relief Mary with Child is from 1980.
Bergkreuzweg
Along the steep footpath from Unterweißbach to Kaltenberg, a way of the cross with the 14 stations was built as brick chapels in the stone castle style. In the anniversary year of 1885, the 100-year-old parish , the chapels were re-covered and the pictures, which were already badly damaged, were replaced by pictures of the Stations of the Cross from the church in Arbesbach. In 1937, with Pastor Franz Höckner of the Unterweißbach parish church, the again heavily weathered Stations of the Cross pictures were replaced by new pictures that were acquired from Zell near Zellhof. After the Second World War, the pictures were replaced by wooden panels. On the initiative of Unterweißbach, new carvings for the chapels were purchased from 1980 to 1982 with the sculptor Felix Weiß from Liebenau and the chapels were restored in 1983.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Mühlviertel 2003 . Kaltenberg, Parish and pilgrimage church Mariae Heimsuchung, small monuments, pp. 324–325.
- Heinrich Koller: Kaltenberg in the highlands of the lower Mühlviertel. Kaltenberg pilgrimage song, the pilgrimage site Kaltenberg, chapel building, the miraculous image, consecration of the chapel, the Kaltenberg call for help, building the church and elevation to the parish, equipment of the church, the original chapel, the rectory, the mountain cross, altitude and water supply, miracles, pastoral care and pastoral care in Kaltenberg . Salzburger Pressverein, 3rd edition, Salzburg 2002, 24 pages.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 26 ′ 59.3 " N , 14 ° 46 ′ 35.9" E