Holy Cross (Kiefersfelden)
The parish church Heilig Kreuz is located in Kiefersfelden in Bavaria .
history
A church with the patronage of the Holy Cross can be found in Kiefersfelden for the first time in the "Conradinische Matrikel" from the year 1315. Originally it was a branch church of the parish Flintsbach, which was the parish seat of the entire area with the branches Audorf, Niederaudorf and Kiefersfelden was. In 1424 the foundation of the "Eternal Mass" and thus of the benefit took place .
The order of the church system in Bavaria and thus in this region goes back to Bonifatius (672/73 - 754), who in close connection with Duke Odilo introduced a tight organization. This achievement consisted primarily in the establishment of the four dioceses of Freising , Regensburg , Salzburg and Passau . With this division in 739, the Inn was defined as the border between the dioceses of Salzburg and Freising.
The existence of a church is documented for Audorf as early as 792. A "Celle ad Caofstain" ( Kufstein ) is mentioned as early as 788 . Since the monks often erected signs of the cross or churches of the cross within an hour's radius of their monasteries as a sign of their territorial boundaries, it would be possible that a church was built in what is now the area of the municipality of Kiefersfelden in early medieval times. Because of this border location, the Bavarian Upper Inn Valley was repeatedly affected by wars. Above all, the " War of the Austrian Succession " brought devastating devastation in 1742/43 when the Church of Our Lady in Oberaudorf was completely destroyed.
The establishment of an ironworks from 1696 onwards, which gave the place an early industrial character in addition to the peasantry, was of decisive importance for the “cross dress” (parish) as well as for the political community. Within a short time the population swelled from 400 to 1,000. The owner of the plant, Count Fieger from the Zillertal , proved in the following years to be a promoter of church life in the community, among other things by founding a cross brotherhood .
On November 6, 1868, the previous “Incurat Benefice” Kiefersfelden was raised to an independent parish curatie, to which 632 souls now belonged. On September 16, 1893, Kiefersfelden finally achieved the status of an independent parish . The structural change in the second half of the 19th century also changed the face of the municipality of Kiefersfelden. With the connection to the railway network in 1858, tourism came to the place, which led to brisk construction activity. After the founding of the empire in 1871, the steelworks faced overwhelming competition from Alsace and Lorraine. However, the decline of the iron and steel works was compensated for by the emergence of the pine marble industry (founding general assembly on April 1, 1883). This marble industry turned out to be a generous “sponsor” of the Kiefersfelden parish in the future. In 1907 the plant - all businesses and branches taken together - employed 60 employees and 615 workers. Around 1900 the community had 1000 inhabitants again.
Building
When the pastor Johann von Gott Gierl took office on August 2, 1894, plans first matured for an extension and then for the construction of a new church due to the lack of space in the old church on Buchberg. However, due to numerous setbacks, it was not until July 10th, 1904, before Pastor Gierl was able to finally set the foundation stone for his main goal, the new church.
Architect Johann Baptist Schott
Johann Baptist Schott (1853–1913) was won as the architect, the leading master builder in sacred architecture in the country at the time. From the turn of the century, Schott had turned his back on the historicizing styles of neo-Romanesque or neo-Gothic and exclusively designed plans in the neo-baroque style. It was not about copies, but about the further development of this style according to his own interpretation.
The history of art counts Schott as one of the first pioneers of the “ Heimatstil ”, a modification of the neo-baroque style, which sets the goal of using only local artists and craftsmen as well as building materials from the region. Another characteristic of the Scottish “homeland style”: the church should be picturesquely situated in an open space with the highest possible steeple and should be an identification feature of the respective place. Another peculiarity of Schott, who saw himself as a designer of a total work of art, was to design every sacred building himself down to the last detail, from the floor to the steeple.
Furnishing
The new parish church Hl. Kreuz in Kiefersfelden offers plenty of design highlights. First of all, the high altar catches the church visitor 's eye, a mighty, 9.5 meter high baroque reredos. The high altar was made by the marble industry Kiefer and installed in the new church in 1906. Previously, the work of art made of various types of limestone , such as the Adnet marble and the Untersberg marble , had received high awards.
The ceiling frescos by Waldemar Kolmsperger the Elder form another design highlight . Ä. (1852–1943), who address the patronage of the church. In addition to the discovery of the holy cross by the Empress Mother Helena in the choir, the glorification of the holy cross in the 1.5 meter deep flat dome of the crossing is particularly impressive due to the artistic sophistication. This baroque illusion painting from below, which aims to awaken the illusion of reality by including contemporary people in the picture, is one of the highlights of the parish church with its extreme foreshortening and wide-open visionary sky landscapes. The inside of the church is 43 m long and 24 m wide, and the dome is 13.6 m. The sanctuary is 11.3 m wide and 10.6 m high. There are almost 400 seats in the benches.
Parish
Two world wars and times of need meant that the interior of the church only finally gained its present appearance in 1946 with the completion of the side altars by Marmorindustrie Kiefer AG. With the redesign of the church forecourt in 1991 and the construction of the parsonage, which cost 1.5 million euros and was inaugurated in 2002, the entire area was given its current appearance.
The parish today has 3050 members. On May 6, 2007, the entire village of Kiefersfelden celebrated “Hundred Years of Parish Church Hl. Cross” with numerous events, and on September 16, 2018, 125 years of parish.
literature
- Hans Moser, Chronicle of Kiefersfelden; Kiefersfelden 1959
- Josef Rosenegger, Kiefersfelden - Parish Holy Cross (Schnell Art Guide 2417). Regensburg: Verlag Schnell & Steiner 2000
- Reiner Pletter, 100 years of Heilig Kreuz Kiefersfelden. Festschrift. Kiefersfelden 2007
Web links
- The parish Heilig Kreuz on erzbistum-muenchen.de
- Twelve bells of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation on January 1st, 2017 from the new parish church Heilig Kreuz in Kiefersfelden
Coordinates: 47 ° 36 '42.3 " N , 12 ° 11' 11.4" E