Parish Church of Grins
The Roman Catholic parish church of Grins stands in the middle of the cemetery on the western outskirts of the municipality of Grins in the Landeck district in Tyrol . It is consecrated to St. Nicholas and belongs to the Deanery of Zams in the Diocese of Innsbruck . The building is a listed building .
Location description
The church is in a dominant position on the western outskirts and is surrounded by a cemetery.
history
The church is first mentioned in a document in 1439. In 1497 the consecration of a church is mentioned. The construction of today's late baroque church took place between 1775 and 1779, supposedly according to plans by Franz Singer and master mason Weiskopf. Contrary to the previous opinion, Klaus Aman does not assign the parish church of Grins to Franz Singer in his 262-page dissertation from 2002.
architecture
Exterior description
The church is a late baroque hall building. From the late Gothic building, which was consecrated in 1497, the tower is still preserved today, which was incorporated into the main facade of the south-facing church. The church tower is slightly protruding and has two-lane sound windows with tracery and pointed arches . The tower is covered with a pyramid helmet. The church is divided into three parts by a retracted central yoke and a retracted choir yoke. The end of the choir is flat and rounded. There is a flat gable roof over the nave . Two arched windows are combined by thermal bath windows above . There is a fluted round arch portal on both sides of the tower . The western one shows the year 1779 on the capitals .
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Inside description
Inside, the three parts of the room are accentuated by massive pillars. The ceiling consists of flat domes and is decorated with stucco ornamentation in the Rococo style. The northern, wider yoke is richly decorated, the concave piers with double pilasters . The surrounding entablature rises here in a segmental arch to the thermal bath windows. In the northern front yoke is a two-storey gallery. The southern pillars in the central yoke are concave. The choir yoke is square.
In the vault are paintings by Matthäus Günther from 1779. In the choir is the "Glory of St. Nicholas" and the four cardinal virtues are shown in the spandrels . In the nave you can see a " Maria Immaculata ", the four evangelists, the homage of the four continents to the church and the four church fathers.
The year of completion of the church is given as a chronogram : DIVV s N IC o L a V s Te M p LI T V re L ar I s Patron V s. - The letters, which can also be read as Roman numerals, add up to 1779.
Furnishing
The altars were erected in the classicism style around 1840. The high altar picture bears the artist's insignia "F (ranz) A. Pig., 1862" and shows St. Nicholas kneeling in front of Mary . The baroque statues from 1723 are documented by Andreas Kölle . They represent the Saints Peter , Paul , Georg and Florian . In the gable is a Madonna relief by Franz Xaver Renn from around 1840.
On the left side altar is a "Maria Immaculata" statue from the end of the 19th century. This is flanked by baroque statues of St. Catherine and St. Ursula . These also come from the hand of Andreas Kölle. The relief in the gable shows " Queen Esther before Ahasver ".
On the right side altar is a statue of St. Joseph from the end of the 19th century. This is flanked by baroque figures of St. John the Baptist and Laurentius , also by Andreas Kölle.
The rococo pulpit was built around 1780. Putti are depicted on the basket with symbols of faith, hope and love . On the cover there are figures of Saints Peter and Paul. In glass shrines are an enthroned Madonna figure in the Mariahilf type and a group of guardian angels by Franz Xaver Renn from 1840.
The lecture cross and the crucifix date from the 18th century. An oval picture from the end of the 18th century shows Maria Immaculata and one from the middle of the 19th century shows Saint Aloisius . The three processional flags were created around 1780, the stations of the cross in the fourth quarter of the 18th century. The baptismal font from 1780 stands on a Gothic base. The pews are late baroque.
organ
The baroque organ case by Johann Anton Fuchs has a positive balustrade and dates from the end of the 18th century. The old movement was made by Karl Reinisch in 1914. The main case was expanded. In 1988 it was replaced by an organ from Rieger Orgelbau .
literature
- Grin. Parish church hl. Nicholas. In: Dehio manual . The art monuments of Austria: Tyrol. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-7031-0488-0 , p. 294f.
Web links
- The parish church on the side of the parish of Grins.
Individual evidence
- ^ 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).
- ↑ Austrian dissertation database ; Retrieved April 11, 2015.
Coordinates: 47 ° 8 ′ 27.3 " N , 10 ° 30 ′ 47.1" E