Parish church Ellmau
The parish church of Ellmau is in the center of the municipality of Ellmau in the Kufstein district in North Tyrol . The parish church , consecrated to the Holy Archangel Michael , belongs to the Deanery Kufstein of the Archdiocese of Salzburg . The church and the cemetery with the war memorial are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
A church is mentioned in documents around 1215 and 1378. The current baroque building was built from 1740 to 1746 according to plans by the architect and plasterer Jakob Singer .
architecture
The baroque hall building faces south.
The simple exterior with arched windows has a slightly drawn-in, rounded choir. On the east side of the choir stands the mighty tower, which has a Gothic core. A two-storey sacristy is added to the west. The tower, with large, arched sound windows, has a pointed helmet over a horizontal cornice with bell-shaped curved pointed gables on each of the four sides of the tower. Small round arched windows and the west portal with a volute wedge are situated in the three-axis western front with curved bent gable. The portal is from 1740, has a wooden door with carving from the construction period, above it a niche figure with the baroque figure of St. Michael around 1740.
The interior of the church consists of a four-bay nave with a barrel cap over wall pillars and a combat cornice, followed by a round arch, the one-bay choir with a semicircle and side galleries between the pillars. In the west yoke is a two-storey gallery. The baroque stucco on the windows, on the triumphal arch and in the vaults show foliage and ribbon work and rosette grilles from 1740 and are attributed to Hans Singer.
The ceiling fresco was painted by Johann Georg Höttinger in 1746: in the medallions the Lord's Supper, the Angel's Fall, the Sacrifice of Isaac, in the vaults the four evangelists , Daniel in the lions' den, the liberation of Peter, the birth of Christ, Michael with the cross of Christ, the awakening of the Dead and Lots escape.
Furnishing
According to the document, Josef Martin Lengauer built the high altar in 1765 . The altar was changed in the 19th century. The statues of Saints Joachim, Josef, Anna and Johannes Nepomuk were created by Lengauer, the altar sheet with the angel's fall was painted by J. Liebherr in 1767.
According to the document, Franz Stitz erected the two side altars in the Rococo in 1770 . The left side altar with the altar panel of a Madonna depicts the statues Leonhard and Antonius. The right side altar with the altar sheet of a representation of Saint Sebastian by J. Liebherr carries the statues of Saints Florian and Georg.
The rococo pulpit with the heads of evangelist symbols on the basket and symbols of Christian virtues on the sound cover was built by Franz Stitz in 1776, according to a document.
The baroque font bears a carved group of the baptism of Christ from 1740, attributed to Franz Offer.
There are lecture poles with candlesticks from around 1700.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Tirol 1980 . Ellmau, parish church hl. Michael. P. 239.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 30 ′ 46.1 ″ N , 12 ° 18 ′ 5.4 ″ E