Parish church Altaussee
The Roman Catholic parish church Altaussee is located in the center of the municipality Altaussee in the district of Liezen in the state of Styria . The parish church consecrated to St. Aegidius belongs to the deanery of Upper Ennstal - Styrian Salzkammergut in the diocese of Graz-Seckau . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
The church was first mentioned in 1224. It was a branch of the Aussee parish until it was elevated to a parish church in 1770. According to tradition from the 18th century, a church was built in Altaussee as early as the end of the 12th century. It is documented about a hundred years later in the general land of Albrecht I. Another tradition says that it is older than the Pauluskirche in Bad Aussee and the former parish church. In fact, she had parish rights long before her own pastoral care office was set up: The Aussee parish order of 1483 presupposed the right to be buried. Messages from the 17th and 18th centuries mention a baptismal font and the dispensing of the Easter sacraments. The Gothic tabernacle attests to the storage of the Eucharist. The documentary mentions start in 1433. The year 1434 is an inscription on the west side of the church next to today's main portal.
The Aegidius patronage points to an emergence in the 12th century. With the donation of two salt pans from Margrave Ottokar IV to the Rein monastery , salt mining began. If the church had been built mainly for the salt workers, however, it would not stand on the lake shore, but close to the oldest tunnels in the salt mine.
A legend reports that the presbytery of the church was a pagan idol temple in earlier times. Due to the Aegidius patronage, this information is extremely dubious, as there were no Aegidius patronages during the missionary period. It is possible, however, that the church was previously consecrated to another saint, for example St. Martin . A side altar was dedicated to this until the 19th century. A simpler explanation for the idol temple would be the ashlar floor that existed until 1859. In contrast, there was a brick floor in the nave. At that time, stone blocks were considered ancient and pagan. Even if legends and other traditions tell of a place of worship in the distant past, there is the first documentary mention of the church “St. Gilgen zu Vischarn ”, as it was called earlier, only in 1433. The year 1434 can be found on the tower as a building inscription. Earlier reliable dates are from 1300.
The area around the Altausseer See should have been populated for a long time. The fishing rights were private from the start - the Traunkirchen monastery was a feudal lord and demanded an annual fish tax. The services were carried out by the parish of Aussee (today: Bad Aussee), which has been attested since 1301. In 1770, Empress Maria Theresia donated its own vicariate to the church in Altaussee, which, however, was not independent of Bad Aussee. Corpus Christi processions continued to be carried out by the mother parish. In 1892 the vicariate became an independent parish.
Building description
Outside
According to an inscription above the west portal, the church dates from 1434. Between 1859 and 1861, the church was redesigned in the late Romantic style by a foundation by Emperor Franz Joseph . The sacristy, the porches of the portal, the side chapels in the nave and the window and portal walls date from this time. The building consists of unplastered, reddish sandstone masonry with stone walls. There are stepped buttresses at the choir . The church tower is in the west and has a wedge roof.
Inside
The four-bay , late-Gothic interior has drawn-in struts. The single-bay choir has a 5/8 end and a ribbed vault. In the choir there are remains of six Gothic stained glass windows from the second quarter of the 15th century with later additions. The three-axis, stone west gallery rests on a diamond- shaped vault . The wooden gallery is preferred.
Furnishing
The late Gothic tabernacle made of red marble was built around 1525 and (like the one in the parish church of Bad Aussee) is placed over a corner. It consists of a two-storey structure with turned and roughened half columns with a late Gothic wrought iron grille. It is crowned by a late Gothic statue of the risen One. The two niche figures are neo-Gothic . A late Gothic cross hangs over the altar. In the southern chapel there is a neo-Gothic altar with an altarpiece of St. Barbara . It was painted by Leopold Kupelwieser around 1860 , as was the altarpiece of St. Egidius.
A bell from 1506 hangs in the tower.
Others
In 1882 the church in Sedliacka Dubová ( Slovakia ) was built a second time, exactly according to the plans of Altaussee.
literature
- Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) 1982 , Altaussee, Parish Church Altaussee, p. 14f.
- Brochure of the Ausseerland parishes: "Churches in the Ausseerland" - available in the individual churches
Web links
- Parish church Altaussee on the homepage of the Ausseerland parishes ( Memento from February 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Styria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. (PDF), ( CSV ). Federal Monuments Office , status: 23 January 2019.
- ↑ a b c Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) 1982 , Altaussee, Parish Church Altaussee, p. 14f.
- ↑ Brochure of the Ausseerland parishes: "Churches in the Ausseerland" - available in the individual churches
Coordinates: 47 ° 38 ′ 28.8 " N , 13 ° 46 ′ 14.8" E