Parish church of Dienten am Hochkönig
The Roman Catholic parish church of Dienten am Hochkönig is located in the municipality of Dienten am Hochkönig in the Zell am See district in the state of Salzburg . She is the St. Nicholas ordained that patronage is on St. Nicholas Day , the December 6 , celebrated. The parish church belongs to the deanery Taxenbach in the archdiocese of Salzburg . The church and cemetery are under monument protection .
history
The church in the south of the village stands on a steep hill at the foot of the Hochkönig . From the Middle Ages until 1864, Dienten was an important mining area for iron. The two-aisled Gothic miners' church with a baroque tower is surrounded by a cemetery. The church is mentioned in a document in 1410 as a pastoral care office in Saalfeld , it was re- consecrated in 1506 after being enlarged , and in 1638 it was made a vicariate and in 1891 a parish church .
architecture
The south-facing church has a nave with a circumferential base and a steep clapboard gable roof. The beveled portal in the northern gable front with a steep triangular gable, which is ogival on the outside and closed on the inside with a round arch, has a vestibule added in 1971. The east side of the nave has an ogival window in the first axis. The west side has a square window in the first axis and a rectangular window above, a round window in the second axis and an ogival beveled window in the third axis. In the west, the facade has a massive support pillar at the transition to the choir . The retracted choir with a polygonal end has a circumferential hollow groove with triangular pilaster strips in the middle with a coffin cornice . The five windows of the choir are chamfered in an ogival shape and some have tracery . The additions to the east from 1663 include a mortuary chapel with a rounded, chamfered portal in the north. This is followed by a two-storey sacristy under a pent roof and a rectangular portal. The tower from 1685 with an undivided facade connects to the sacristy. The tower has arched sound windows and a clapboard helmet and closes with a tent roof.
Furnishing
Until the restoration of the church in 1950, the high altar had sacrificial portals on which the statues of St. Peter and Paul stood. On the right side altar, the epistle side (= men's side), a processional Madonna with child , created by an artist from the circle of Hans Waldburger after 1600 and for whom the carpenter Georg Jesacher from Saalfelden made the still existing altar in 1693, was venerated. The so-called Madonna Enthroned with Child is a rare work from the transition from Mannerism to Early Baroque Salzburg provenance and has been in the Salzburg Museum since 1974 . Instead of this processional Madonna now stands the statue of St. Paul from the right portal of the sacrificial passage removed in 1950.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Salzburg 1986 . Served on the Hochkönig, parish church St. Nikolaus, pp. 63-64.
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Notes and individual references
- ↑ Personnel of the world and religious clergy of the Archdiocese of Salzburg for 1957 ( Schematismus 1957), ed. from the Archbishop's Office of Salzburg 1957, p. 199.
- ↑ The statue probably came into the art trade in 1950 and it is speculated that this process was an art-historical thriller with the potential for fraud . Compare: Peter Rohrmoser: A Madonna Enthroned with Child . In: Salzburger Museumsblätter 335, vol. 29, Salzburg 2016, op [p. 2.]
Coordinates: 47 ° 22 ′ 41.7 " N , 13 ° 0 ′ 4.8" E