Parish church of Gerlos

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Parish church to the hll. Leonhard and Lambert in Gerlos

The Roman Catholic parish church Gerlos stands in a walled cemetery in the hamlet of the municipality Au Gerlos in District Schwaz in Tyrol . It is consecrated to Saints Leonhard and Lambert and belongs to the dean's office in Zell am Ziller in the Archdiocese of Salzburg . The building is a listed building .

history

The Gothic predecessor church was first mentioned in 1470 as a subsidiary church of Zell am Ziller . Archbishop Johann III. von Salzburg and the Chiemsee Bishop Georg Altdorfer awarded her indulgences on May 29, 1489 for the days on which the two patron saints were celebrated . The church tower was added around 1500.

Vicar Ignaz Raphael Dax endeavored to rebuild the church and received permission from the Salzburg consistory in 1735 . In the same year the new church was built according to plans by Hans Holzmeister . The Gothic tower of the previous church was retained, raised, provided with a new bell chamber and decorated with an onion dome. An organ was only mentioned in 1800. When she came to church is unclear. In 1855 the triumphal arch was repainted. Another renovation took place in 1889. Two years later the branch church was elevated to a parish church. In 1907/08 the old sacristy on the north side of the choir was torn down and a new one was built on its south side. In 1911, Pastor Wanner made sure that the old Madonna portrait on the high altar was replaced by a relief of Mary by Josef Bachlechner. Exterior renovations took place in 1930 and 1980. An extensive interior renovation took place in 1990/91. It comprised the entire facility and the wall and ceiling paintings. In addition, the church received a new ambo and a baptismal font. During excavations in the floor of the church in 1990, the outlines of the smaller predecessor church were found.

Building description

The church is an east-facing baroque hall building with a retracted choir with three-eighths closure. It has a late Gothic northeast tower, which was raised in the Baroque style in 1735 and is crowned by an onion dome, and a sacristy attached to the south side of the choir. The church has a high gable roof. On the outside of the north wall there is a fresco of St. Leonhard as the patron saint of cattle with a view of Gerlos from the 18th century. Entrance portals are available in the west and north. The two-bay choir and the four-bay nave are barrel-vaulted and have stitch caps . The vaults rest on flat pilasters .

Furnishing

Ceiling painting

The ceiling paintings are by Josef Michael Schmutzer from 1747.

Choir

The ceiling fresco in the choir shows the Assumption of Mary . It is surrounded by painted ornaments, angel heads and six cartouche frescoes with biblical trees like vine, palm and cedar.

Longhouse

Schmutzer carried out the ceiling paintings in the nave as secco painting . There are three pictures in the north half of the vault and three in the south half, all in rocaille cartouches. Motifs on the north side are the Annunciation , the Visitation of the Virgin Mary and the Adoration of the Shepherds , on the south side the adoration of the kings , the presentation of Jesus in the temple and the finding of Jesus in the temple . If one looks at the adoration of the shepherds and the kings as a representation of the birth of Christ, the five motifs of the joyous rosary are shown here.

Painting on the triumphal arch

The triumphal arch was painted in the style of historicism in 1855. The Last Supper can be seen at the top of the arch . It is flanked by the patrons of Salzburg and Tyrol, the saints Rupert and Joseph . Both are depicted on painted plinths with inscriptions: Above the left side altar, Rupert is called to save us from denying the pure Catholic faith; above the right, Joseph is asked for a blissful hour of death.

Altars

On the high altar from the 18th century stands the figure Maria vom Siege by Josef Bachlechner from 1911 in a round arch field. Outside the arch field she is flanked by baroque statues of the church patron, left by Lambert and right by Leonhard. The upper picture with a representation of the Holy Trinity comes from the period of historicism .

The two side altars were donated by Ferdinand Kajetan von Kleinmayrn in 1737. The picture on the left side altar shows St. Leonhard. In the upper picture, St. Anne is shown teaching Mary. The right side altar is decorated with a picture of St. John Nepomuk . The upper picture shows the Archangel Raphael accompanying the young Tobias .

More works of art

On the northern side of the choir are two sculptures that Franz Xaver Nißl created in the second half of the 18th century. You embody the saints Florian and Sebastian .

In the nave there is a figure of St. Leonhard on the left. Two statues from the 19th century represent Saints Joseph and Mary as Immaculata . On the right side there is a Sacred Heart statue from the 19th century, a Dechrist in a niche and a figure of the Good Shepherd from the 18th century . Century.

The baroque pulpit on the north wall was created by Jakob Staudacher, a carpenter from Zell am Ziller. The parapets on the polygonal basket are decorated with paintings of the four Latin Fathers of the Church : Gregory the Great , Hieronymus , Augustine and Ambrosius . An arm with a crucifix protrudes from the pulpit.

The Stations of the Cross, which Michael Lackner painted in 1957, are integrated into wall coverings on the north and south walls. In the parapet of the organ gallery there are pictures of the twelve apostles with Christ as Salvator Mundi in their midst.

For the Christmas season there is a nativity scene with about 20 centimeters tall dressed figures, whose hands and feet are carved and the heads are modeled from wax.

organ

The three-part organ prospectus dates from the 18th century. During the renovation in 1990/91, the baroque housing was reconstructed. The instrument is equipped with nine registers as a single manual mechanical work with pedal, a work by the organ builder Christian Erler from Schlitters.

literature

  • Gerlos. Parish Church of St. Leonhard and Lambert In: Dehio manual . The art monuments of Austria: Tyrol. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-7031-0488-0 , p. 276.
  • Adolf Hahnl: Gerlos. Parish church to the hll. Leonhard and Lambert. Verlag St. Peter (Austria's Christian Art Sites, No. 196), Salzburg 1991.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tyrol - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from June 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 26, 2015 (PDF).
  2. ^ Adolf Hahnl: Gerlos. Parish church to the hll. Leonhard and Lambert. Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1991, pp. 2-7.
  3. ^ Adolf Hahnl: Gerlos. Parish church to the hll. Leonhard and Lambert. Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1991, p. 8.
  4. ^ Adolf Hahnl: Gerlos. Parish church to the hll. Leonhard and Lambert. Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1991, p. 10.
  5. ^ Adolf Hahnl: Gerlos. Parish church to the hll. Leonhard and Lambert. Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1991, p. 10 f.
  6. ^ Adolf Hahnl: Gerlos. Parish church to the hll. Leonhard and Lambert. Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1991, pp. 12/14.
  7. ^ Adolf Hahnl: Gerlos. Parish church to the hll. Leonhard and Lambert. Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1991, p. 12.

Coordinates: 47 ° 13 ′ 32.5 ″  N , 12 ° 2 ′ 7.3 ″  E