Axams parish church

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View from the south

The Roman Catholic parish church of Axams is raised in the center of the village in the municipality of Axams in the Innsbruck-Land district in Tyrol . The parish church of St. John the Baptist is part of the Axams deanery in the Innsbruck diocese . The church is a listed building .

history

A parish has been adopted since the Carolingian era. A church was mentioned in documents around 960 and a pastor in 1214. In 1498 a late Gothic church was consecrated. Of this, the tower from 1512 has been preserved, the nave was rebuilt from 1732 to 1734 according to plans by Mathias Umhauser in the baroque style and redesigned from 1871 to 1879 in the Nazarene style.

architecture

West facade

The church is a baroque building with a 74 m high Gothic tower. A retracted polygonal closing choir adjoins the nave with short transverse arms . The mighty north tower has two bell storeys with twin windows, pointed and round arched, as well as tracery windows in the pointed gables and has a pointed helmet. A two-storey sacristy is added to the northeast . The western front is divided into three axes with giant pilasters and has a volute gable at the top with a stepped end and shows arched and rectangular windows. The three arched portals in the west, north and south have stone walls. The facade shows a mosaic of John the Baptist around 1900 and two sundial frescoes on the south side from 1733 and on the southern slope of the choir.

The four-bay nave appears as a large interior space where the spatial effect has been expanded on both sides in the third bay with flat-arched altar cones. The two-bay choir closes with three-eighths. The interior of the church has lancet barrel vaults on a circumferential cranked beam. The triumphal arch, the windows and the skylight windows are round-arched. The two-story west gallery stands on columns. The lush stucco decor with acanthus, rose lattice, flower baskets, cornucopia, crosses of the Apostles with acanthus and volute stucco around 1733 in the nave is attributed to the plasterer Anton Gigl . The vault paintings Baptism of Christ , Sermon John the Baptist and Beheading of John the Baptist were painted in 1841 by Josef Arnold the Elder .

Furnishing

The richly baroque wooden altars with stucco lustro were created by Andrä Gratl around 1730/40, the white holy figures by Nikolaus Moll and Gregor Fritz . The high altar shows the altarpiece Maria Immaculata with John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, painted by Johann Georg Grassmayr (1735).

organ

In 1737 the organ builder Johann König von Rattenberg completed an organ with 16 stops. It was rebuilt in 1831. Under Franz Apperl, who was organist and choir director from 1904 to 1948, a new or revised pneumatic organ was built by the Reinisch organ building company in 1908. In 1944, metal parts of the organ were also to be melted down for the war. However, it was possible to keep the damage as low as possible and only hand over the pointed flute. In 1975 the church organ was rebuilt using original components by the company Johann Pirchner from Steinach as a mechanical organ with 17 registers, divided into two manuals and a pedal.

Disposition

Main work:

  • Salicional 8 '
  • Principal 8 '
  • Octave 4 '
  • Reed flute 8 '
  • Forest flute 2 '
  • Mixture 4f
  • Sesquialtera

Rückpositiv:

  • Covered 8 '
  • Reed flute 4 '
  • Principal 2 '
  • Krummhorn 8 '
  • Quint 1 1/3 '
  • Cimbel 3f

Pedal:

  • Sub-bass 16 '
  • Octave bass 8 '
  • Choral bass 4 '
  • Trombone 8 '

Playing aids as coupling steps:

  • HW / Ped
  • RP / Ped
  • RP / HW

literature

Web links

Commons : Parish Church of St. Johannes d. T., Axams  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 47 ° 13 ′ 51.7 "  N , 11 ° 16 ′ 48.8"  E