Parish Church Debant
The Debant Parish Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in the political community of Nussdorf-Debant in East Tyrol . The parish was established on September 15, 1967 as the parish vicariate of the Nussdorf parish and on September 1, 2000 it was elevated to a parish. The parish is subordinate to the deanery of Lienz ( Diocese of Innsbruck ). The church was built from 1968 and consecrated to the Holy Spirit in 1977 . It is under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
Debant originally only had the small Sankt Silvester chapel from 1670. The residents had to move to the Nussdorf parish church for the mass visit. However, the Debant settlement experienced a strong economic and population boom after the Second World War . The strong increase in the number of inhabitants in the village led to an initiative in the Nussdorf church council, which aimed to found a new church building in the village of Debant. The community provided a plot of land of 7,500 m² for the construction of the church, and the design by Innsbruck architect Ulrich Feßler was selected from the projects submitted . The project costs amounted to seven million schillings and were largely adhered to.
The construction work was awarded to the Lienz construction company L. Sapinski, which began construction work in autumn 1969. At the end of October the parsonage with the parish office, parish hall and library was completed, on October 25, 1970 the first service could be held. The church was only consecrated by the Innsbruck diocesan bishop on October 16, 1977.
Building
The modern sacred building of the Debant parish church is based on the shape of the isosceles triangle, which was further developed into a regular hexagon. The church area encloses a hexagonal square, the center is the free-standing, triangular church tower. The church tower was built in exposed concrete and reaches a height of 26 meters. The bells were cast in 1981 and come from the Grassmayr bell foundry in Innsbruck.
The sacred space itself was designed in the shape of an isosceles triangle with a side length of 40 meters. In the lower area, the corners for the entrance area, the sacristy and the confessional chapel were excluded. While this creates a hexagon in the floor plan, an equilateral triangle remains in the ceiling soffit. In the spirit of the Second Vatican Council , the altar was brought up to the faithful, who surround the altar on three sides. The masonry of the church is made of white rough plaster, the latticework of the concrete beams allows daylight to shine on the altar from above.
The interior of the church was gradually decorated with various works of art from different eras. On the wall behind the altar hang in the center three relief panels with a late Gothic look by Wilhelm and Viktor Senoner from Ortisei in Val Gardena . The panels are based on the works of Tilman Riemenschneider and are dedicated to the subjects of Resurrection , Pentecost and the Assumption of Mary . To the left of the altar there are three baroque works of art. A cross from the Matrei area and the reliefs of God the Father (from the Pongau area ) and the Holy Spirit . The confessional chapel is adorned by a baroque man of sorrows , other items of equipment are baroque images of the apostles from Schlaiten and station boards from the Franciscan monastery in Lienz .
An electronic organ was originally used in the church. After fifteen years, however, the failure-prone model was replaced by a digital computer organ. A pipe organ could not be used because of the warm air heating and the resulting continuous detuning. In addition, a pipe organ for the 6000 m² room would have been difficult to finance. The digital computer organ made by Cremer in Cologne was inaugurated in 1987.
literature
- Meinrad Pizzinini: East Tyrol. The Lienz district. His works of art, historical forms of life and settlement. Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1974, ISBN 3-900173-17-6 .
- Nussdorf-Debant in East Tyrol. From the past and present of an East Tyrolean market town. Nussdorf-Debant 1995.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 49 ′ 54.5 " N , 12 ° 49 ′ 4.8" E