Parish church Grafendorf in Gaimberg
The Grafendorf parish church is located in Kirchweiler Grafendorf in the municipality of Gaimberg in the district of Lienz in the state of Tyrol . The Roman Catholic parish church , consecrated to the Apostle Bartholomew , belongs to the Deanery Lienz of the Diocese of Innsbruck . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
In 1411 a church was mentioned in a document. A new building / reconstruction took place in the first half of the 16th century. The new construction of the choir was completed in 1534. 1834 was a renovation in the classical style. In 1934 there was a regotization. 1964 was a restoration.
Actual or alleged rights of the Ossiach Abbey were denied to the Abbey by the Archbishop of Salzburg in 1673, making it a branch of the Dölsach parish . Under Emperor Joseph II. 1786 pastoral care station initially as an exposition and then as a local chaplaincy. In 1891 the elevation to the parish took place.
architecture
The late Gothic country church, which was later changed on the inside, but re-gothicised, is surrounded by a cemetery with a wall and stands between old and newly built areas in Grafendorf.
The church building has a simple nave with a polygonal choir under a steep gable roof. The underside of the canopy at the west portal shows in camaieu / monochrome the expulsion from the temple of the painter Christoph Brandstätter in 1834. The tower stands on the south side at the transition between the nave and the choir, it has pointed arched sound windows and has an eight-sided pointed helmet, the tower shows border painting from the first Half of the 19th century.
The interior of the church shows a single-nave three-bay nave with gothic-style mesh ribs on consoles, which were renewed by Josef Huber in 1934. The double gallery stands on pillars. The pointed triumphal arch is fluted on both sides. The two-bay choir with a three-eighth end has a star rib vault on consoles, the keystones are round, two consoles are in the shape of heads. The front of the choir bears the signature of Walther von Kötschach 1534. The baptistery is accessible from the nave on the tower ground floor.
Emil Kerle created the vault painting in the nave in 1932/1933. In the choir there are tartsches to the side, painted with Christ, the Lamb of God and saints by the painter Karl Untergasser in 1934. The pointed arched windows show Nazarene depictions of saints based on designs by Karl Untergasser and executed by Jäger and Strobl in 1902.
Furnishing
The high altar, a neo-Gothic shrine altar, was created with the participation of various artists, design by Karl Untergasser, carpenter work by Clemens Raffeiner in 1904, reliefs on the predella, adoration of the shepherds and the descent from the cross, statues of Isidor and Notburga and the conversation with Michael was created by the sculptor Josef Bachlechner in 1915 1920. B. Plattner painted the altar sheet Gnadenstuhl in 1919, the wings were painted by Karl Untergasser, the Annunciation at the closed shrine, Stephanus, Laurentius in the interior of the shrine, the fourteen helpers on the outside of the predella wings.
Johann Waginger painted the station pictures in 1840/1850.
literature
- Gaimberg, parish church St. Bartholomäus zu Grafendorf, in Obergaimberg. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Tirol 1980 . Pp. 272-273.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ascherl, Wiesauer: Parish Church hl. Bartholomew. In: Tyrolean art register . Accessed June 1, 2020 .
Coordinates: 46 ° 50 ′ 37.1 " N , 12 ° 46 ′ 15.5" E