Parish church Ebensee am Traunsee
The Roman Catholic parish church Ebensee am Traunsee is elevated at the northern end of the center of the municipality Ebensee am Traunsee in the Gmunden district in Upper Austria . It is consecrated to St. Joseph and belongs to the pastoral care room Ebensee in the dean's office in Bad Ischl . The church is a listed building .
history
For a long time Ebensee received pastoral care from the Traunkirchen monastery . The believers had to row across the lake by boat to attend church. This was sometimes dangerous - between 1700 and 1701, 31 people died during the crossing. Nevertheless, it still took some time to have its own parish church. From 1656 a chaplain was assigned to the Joseph Chapel in the building of the salt works. From 1656 a chaplain was in charge of the Joseph chapel in the salt works administration building.
It was not until 1726 that Emperor Karl approved the building of a church in the center of Ebensee. In 1729 the church planned by the Linz architect Johann Michael Prunner was inaugurated as a branch of Traunkirchen. In 1786 it was elevated to an independent parish church by Emperor Joseph II.
In 1835 the saltworks building was destroyed by a major fire, as was the wooden church tower.
The church was expanded in 1910/11.
From 1999 to 2004 the parish church was extensively restored inside and out, and in the course of this, also after the renewed liturgy in accordance with the Second Vatican Council . A block of rows of seats was removed and the people's altar pushed forward into this area and the side benches turned towards the middle.
Church building
The church was built by Michael Prunner between 1727 and 1729, and a tower was added in the southern choir corner in 1841. In 1911 the church was massively expanded, while only the choir remained from the original baroque church. The frescoes were painted between 1932 and 1933 by Karl Reisenbichler .
Furnishing
The original baroque furnishings were retained. The high altar from 1744 comes from Innsbruck . The altarpiece is by Johann Georg Grasmair . He painted it in 1764. The two side altars from 1740 have remarkable figural decorations. The top figure on the right side altar probably comes from a different hand than the rest of the figures, but should be comparable to the one on the right side altar of the parish church of Gmunden . The pulpit from 1730 comes from Franz Anton Koch from Mondsee . On the triumphal arch is a crucifixion group from 1700. In the church there are some other baroque figures that were created around 1700. as well as oil paintings of the twelve apostles from the 18th century and pictures of the Stations of the Cross from the last quarter of the 18th century.
literature
- Erwin Hainisch; Kurt Woisetschläger; u. a .: Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Upper Austria, Ebensee . 5th edition. Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1971, p. 51 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Upper Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from June 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 28, 2013 (PDF).
- ^ History of the parish church
Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 47.2 " N , 13 ° 46 ′ 19.3" E