Parish church Hofkirchen an der Trattnach
The parish church Hofkirchen an der Trattnach is located in Hofkirchen an der Trattnach in the market town of Hofkirchen an der Trattnach in Upper Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church of St. John the Baptist belongs to the dean's office in Kallham in the diocese of Linz . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection .
history
During the reign of Duke Tassilo , the place was first mentioned in a document in 785. This oldest known document reports on the consensus donation by the Bavarian noble Lantperth, who lives here. He handed over large parts of his property to the Church of St. John in Trattnachtal and this to the bishopric of Passau.
The Gothic church went up in flames during the Thirty Years' War in 1620 and it took almost 100 years until it was restored as a baroque church by Pastor Prechensteiner from 1712 to 1716.
According to the plans of the Baroque builder Jakob Pawanger, the choir was converted and the nave was completely rebuilt. The tower was expanded in 1754 with the baroque master builder Johann Gotthard Hayberger from Steyr.
architecture
The single-nave, three-bay nave under a square vault has drawn in buttresses with lower side chapels and upper galleries knitted with them. The walls show a composite pilaster structure. The retracted one-bay choir - Gothic in core - square vaulted choir has a segment of a circle. The three-axis two-bay west gallery has a cross vault and shows a parapet with stucco. The tower in the southern choir corner has an onion helmet. The oratorio in the choir shows stucco around 1720/1730. The frescoes glorifying the church, the four evangelists, finding the cross, six scenes from the life of John the Baptist by the baroque painter Wolfgang Andreas Heindl (1754) were painted over in 1906/1907 and restored in 1957.
Furnishing
The stucco high altar, the side altars and the pulpit are from the baroque renovation period. There is a statue of Christ from the third quarter of the 18th century. The late baroque Stations of the Cross are probably from the workshop of the painter Wolfgang Andreas Heindl.
The font is late Gothic.
literature
- Hofkirchen ad Trattnach, parish church hl. Johannes d. T. S. 118. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Upper Austria. By Erwin Hainisch , reworked by Kurt Woisetschläger , prefaces to the 3rd edition (1958) and 4th edition (1960) by Walter Frodl , sixth edition, Verlag Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 1977.
Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 9.5 ″ N , 13 ° 44 ′ 19.9 ″ E