Parish Church Abtenau
The Roman Catholic parish church Abtenau stands at the east end of the market in the town of Abtenau in the district Hallein in Salzburg . It is consecrated to St. Blaise and belongs to the Hallein deanery in the Archdiocese of Salzburg . The building is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
In 1191 was the first time by Archbishop Adalbert III. certified the existence of a church in Abtenau. This first church building is now accepted in the western area of the right aisle. Below is a barrel-vaulted crypt that is not accessible. The main church, which still exists today, was built in 1313. At the same time it was consecrated in honor of St. Anne . However, the patronage of St. Blasius mentioned in a document. In 1501, after the late Gothic renovation was completed, the church and the Annenkapelle were consecrated. As a result of the peasant wars, the church burned down in 1525. Therefore, renovation work on the vault and tower took place in the following years up to 1540. In 1533 it was fully incorporated as a monastery parish of the St. Peter monastery in Salzburg , which still exists today. In 1659 there was a baroque extension in the east side aisle (Anna Chapel) with an arcade opening to the main nave.
The Abtenau parish church forms a parish association in the Hallein deanery together with the parishes of Annaberg and Rußbach am Pass Gschütt .
Today (as of May 2015) 5,175 Catholics live in the parish area, which includes the entire municipality of Abtenau and the districts of Weitenau and Wallingwinkel of the municipality of Scheffau am Tennengebirge .
Architecture and equipment
Today's church building is mainly assigned to the late Gothic. However, some additions were only made during the baroque period.
In the interior, the three-bay vault made of diamond stars was built after 1525 and later reworked in Baroque style.
The high altar from 1684 is decorated with sculptures by Simeon Fries . The central niche shows Maria with the child. However, this is not the original high altar Madonna, but a work from St. Peter's Abbey. It is flanked by statues of St. Rupert , St. Blaise , and St. Maximilian . The central niche is flanked by the religious saints of the Benedictines , St. Benedict and St. Scholastica .
The side altars are built by Paul Hankhe and Simeon Fries. The left side altar is the "Scapular" or "Brotherhood Altar" and is equipped with an altarpiece by Johann Friedrich Pereth . It shows the vision of St. Theresa with Mary's scapular donation to Simon Stock . The picture was taken around 1684. The figures of the Archangels Michael and Raphael date from 1705.
The right side altar, also called "Josephs" or "Holy Family Altar", shows the Holy Family on the altarpiece (Joseph is warned by the angel to flee) and was created in the second half of the 17th century. The figures from 1702 represent the Archangel Gabriel and the Guardian Angel .
The altarpiece in the Anna chapel shows the clan of Jesus . On this, St. Anna recommends Abtenau for the special protection of the baby Jesus, as shown on an unrolled cloth. The altar from 1684 is by Christof Lederwasch , the two figures of St. Stephen and St. Laurentius by Hans Waldburger .
In 1939 frescoes from 1540 were uncovered in the central nave, showing the Solomonic Judgment and the works of mercy . King David and the prophet medallions are depicted in the organ yoke . However, they were painted over again. In the chancel there is a fresco of a tabernacle from the 15th century.
The Albertus plaque was created around 1800 and is the last of the numerous votive plaques that used to exist when the "Annenkirche" was still a popular place of pilgrimage.
In the vault stone of the right aisle from the 14th century you can find the hand of God, which shows two fingers raised in an oath with an Old Testament scroll. It is supposed to symbolize the connection between the New and Old Testament. It used to be just above the main altar of the old church.
To the left of the triumphal arch is the Abtenau child Jesus (popularly: “s'foaste Kindl”), a blessing figure of the Christ child from 1685.
The Abtenau Altar
The late Gothic high altar was created by Andreas Lackner in 1518 together with the Mondsee painter Ulrich Bocksberger . Only three bishop figures (today in the Belvedere, Vienna ), the shrine guardians and the wing panels (today in the Archabbey of St. Peter in Salzburg and in the Salzburg Museum) are still preserved today.
The three bishop figures of Saints Blasius, Rupert and Maximilian in the possession of the Belvedere in Vienna are among the most high-quality Salzburg carvings of the early 16th century. The figures impress with their virtuoso design of the magnificently gilded and ornate regalia and their portrait-like facial features, which already point to the art of the Renaissance. Stylistically, the figures are indebted to the early work of Hans Leinberger from around 1510/1520.
When closed, the reredos on the shrine wings showed four scenes from the life of St. Blasius. The predelle wings formerly showed the four church fathers Augustine , Gregory , Hieronymus and Ambrosius each in half-length representation. When open, the reliefs of the shrine wings thematize four celebrations of the church year. The four predella reliefs show the grieving Mother of God, St. Anna Selbdritt and an Annunciation group consisting of Mary and the angel, the latter two of which are now considered lost.
The marked differences in quality in the elaboration of the artistically outstanding bishop figures and shrine reliefs compared to the weaker shrine guardians and predella reliefs indicate the collaboration of journeymen on the altar.
According to the current state of research, the Abtenau Altar was most likely commissioned by the St. Peter Abbey in Salzburg, which held legal sovereignty over Abtenau.
Presumably, the high altar retable was in the Gothic choir of the Abtenau parish church from 1518 until the existing baroque pillar retable was erected in 1684. That year, Abbot Adalbert Eder arranged for the high altar to be redesigned, in the course of which the shrine and predelle wings were given to the St. Peter's Abbey in Salzburg. The three shrine figures did not come to the monastery until 1923, to the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna in 1936 and to the Austrian gallery in 1953.
After the altar was divided, the origin of the various parts was forgotten and was painstakingly rediscovered by the following generations of researchers. In 2011 the Belvedere in Vienna exhibited all of the surviving components and examined the work in its historical and art-historical context. In cooperation with the Federal Monuments Office, the project also received a monument preservation aspect: the figures and reliefs received had received different treatment at different locations during their time and therefore also have different appearances. However, through examination of the findings it was possible to gain knowledge of the originally uniform design.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Salzburg - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 27, 2014 (PDF).
- ^ History of the Abtenau parish. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 25, 2014 ; Retrieved September 10, 2012 . 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.
- ^ Parish Abtenau on the side of the ED Salzburg. Retrieved May 26, 2015 .
- ↑ Parish Abtenau in Salzburgwiki. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 18, 2011 ; Retrieved September 10, 2012 . 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.
- ↑ Agnes Husslein Arco / Veronika Pirker-Aurenhammer (ed.): The Abtenauer Altar by Andreas Lackner , Vienna 2011, pp. 8–13.
- ↑ Agnes Husslein Arco / Veronika Pirker-Aurenhammer (eds.): The Abtenauer Altar by Andreas Lackner , Vienna 2011, pp. 77-78.
- ↑ http://www.belvedere.at/de/ausstellungen/rueckblick/abtenauer-altar-von-andreas-lackner-e559
Coordinates: 47 ° 33 ′ 51.2 " N , 13 ° 20 ′ 46.6" E