Elbigenalp parish church
The Elbigenalp parish church is located in the Elbigenalp municipality in the Reutte district in Tyrol . The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Nikolaus belongs to the deanery Breitenwang in the diocese of Innsbruck . The church and the cemetery with two chapels are under monument protection .
history
The church is the seat of the so-called original parish of the Lechtal and was mentioned in a document in 1312. Presumably built around 1300, an extension took place in the 15th century and a second enlargement on the north wall of the nave, dated 1674.
architecture
The baroque church stands in a flat open field and is surrounded by a walled cemetery. Two chapels are integrated into the cemetery wall. The nave has large arched windows and circular windows in the first yoke . With the retracted choir with a three-eighth closure, the church stands under a large steep clapboard gable roof . The tall, slender Gothic tower in the north-east of the nave with a pointed gable helmet has double pointed arch sound windows with triple grooved soffits and tracery .
The flattened lancet barrel vault of the wide three-bay hall is ground in concave in the curved triumphal arch. The two-bay choir has a lancet vault and a pilaster structure . On the west side of the church there is a double gallery with curved parapets above the entrance , which rests in three axes on pairs of columns.
Furnishing
On the west wall above the upper sacristy is a fresco painted by a Swabian painter around 1450/1460, which shows Christ as the judge of the world in the mandorla . This is surrounded by two trumpet angels, as well as Mary and the apostles John and James on the left and Peter on the right.
The church was painted in 1775/76 with frescoes by Johann Jakob Zeiller , which are surrounded by extremely decorative Rococo ornamentation, as are the half-figures of the twelve apostles. The huge nave fresco with the title “Triumph of Christ's work of redemption” symbolizes the seventh age of the world and the one above the organ gallery shows the rescue of a Christian slave from the court of a pagan prince by St. Nicholas . In the choir, however, the “Glory of St. Nikolaus ”with women and men in Lechtal costume. This important fresco is a masterpiece of artistic design in the type of the one-sided, sloping underside of the earth shaft ceiling or dome in diagonal projection. Zeiller brought about a unique development in which all possibilities of baroque ceiling painting are exhausted.
The high altar was redesigned in 1968/1969. In the center it bears the statue of St. Nicholas by Joseph Stapf , which is the only sculpture from the baroque high altar from 1775 that has been preserved. The Lamb of God stands in a halo in front of the cross window. On the front wall there is a carved tabernacle by the sculptor Rudolf Geisler-Moroder from 1968/1969.
In the left side altar structure by Joseph Stapf from Pfronten, the altarpiece Madonna and Child by Joseph Anton Schuler from Stockach , created around 1775, is flanked by the figures of Saints Sebastian, Ulrich, Magnus and Florian. The excerpt shows the Trinity with putti and two seated entablature angels. In the right Stapf side altar, the altarpiece shows the Scapular Madonna and Child (around 1775?) And the figures of Saints Michael, Magdalena, Notburga and Guardian Angels, in the excerpt the Holy Walk (Maria, Joseph and Jesus), flanked by two seated entablature angels and putti.
The pulpit, which was built around 1770, was only added to the church interior in the course of the re-baroque in 1966/1969. It shows the four evangelist symbols and three reliefs (sower, fisherman and Emmaus disciple) on the basket and a filigree volute band structure with putti on the sound cover . Paul Zeiller painted the Stations of the Cross between 1732 and 1738.
The sacrament niche has a Gothic braided grid and ornamental strips. The baptismal font has lowercase letters on the upper edge with symbols in circular fields such as lamb, St. John's head, sun, eagle, moon. Sacrament niche and baptismal font are from the 15th century.
The rococo carrying organ with a painted case around 1770 by Andreas Jäger with mostly new pipework comes from the Ölberg chapel. The organ was built in 1867 by Franz Weber , and in 1966/1969 the prospectus was decorated with new veil boards and various ornaments in the Rococo style. The gallery balustrades were also decorated by Johann Jakob Zeiller with musical instruments in rocaille cartouches and a depiction of putti with the handkerchief of Christ.
Cemetery with two chapels
The Martinskapelle and / or Magdalenenkapelle in the northeast corner of the cemetery were mentioned in documents in 1489. The rectangular building is two-story. The lower chapel with a flat wooden beam ceiling is the ossuary. The upper chapel with a wooden beam barrel vault, the beams are decorated with round bars, was restored in 1832. The front wall has a small arched window and shows frescoes marked 1489 with scenes from the life of Maria Magdalena . The crucifixion group with a crucifix and the saints Maria, Johannes and Magdalena was created around 1680. On the side walls are wooden panels, on the right the dance of death and on the left the register of Christ with saints from Germany by the painter Johann Anton Falger around 1830/1840. At the chapel there are cast iron plaques for Joseph Anton Koch , Johann Anton Falger and Anton Lumpert from the 19th century.
The war memorial chapel is in the southwest of the cemetery. The furnishings include a crucifix by Rudolf Geisler-Moroder from 1965, flanked by figures of Maria and Johannes and two putti from 1720/1730 by Jakob Witwer , which were transferred here from the ossuary.
In 1976, in the wall niches of the cemetery, the dance of death after Johann Anton Falger was repainted as a second series.
Widum
The Widum as a central corridor house with a half-hipped roof north of the parish church as a baroque building was rebuilt in 1834. On the Widum is a crucifix by Josef Klemens Witwer from around 1790. There is a memorial plaque for the builder of the Widum, builder Jakob Lumper.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Tirol 1980 . Elbigenalp, parish church St. Nikolaus, cemetery with Magdalenen or Martins chapel and war memorial chapel, Widum, pp. 233–234.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Josef Mair, in: EXTRA VERREN 2011- Yearbook of the Museum Association of the Reutte District -, pp. 129–32
- ↑ Herbert Wittmann, in: EXTRA VERREN 2011 - Yearbook of the Museum Association of the Reutte District -, p. 87f.
- ^ "Dance of Death" - series of panels by Johann Anton Falger in Elbigenalp (1840)
Coordinates: 47 ° 17 ′ 25.8 ″ N , 10 ° 26 ′ 20.1 ″ E