Parish church Holzgau
The Roman Catholic parish church of Holzgau is in the Austrian municipality of Holzgau in Tyrol . The church, which is subject to the feast of the Assumption of Mary , belongs to the deanery Breitenwang in the diocese of Innsbruck . The church is a listed building .
history
The original branch chapel of the parish church of St. Nikolaus in Elbigenalp was elevated to a parish church in 1401 and then enlarged. The new building, built in 1709 by master builder Christian Strobl, was consecrated in 1732. The tower with a pointed helmet was raised in 1819. The new nave built from 1860 to 1861 and the new choir built in 1863 by master builder Josef Anton Kuen according to a plan by architect Josef Vonstadl were consecrated in 1864. The facade was not completed until 1868.
architecture
The mighty nave and the retracted choir with a round apse stand under a shared gable roof. The high facade with the integrated south tower has an arched portal and three arched windows in niches above it and a rose window above, with a rounded arch frieze on the concluding wall recesses. Narrow arched windows were raised to the side of the center, where the wall recess ends with a three-pass .
The tower has two double acoustic windows lined up one above the other and a pointed gable helmet on the bell floor. On the south side of the nave, a baroque portal shows the inscription : M: I: J: LEMPACH PF / CHRISTIAN STROBL / BAVMAISTER .
The four-bay hall space under an extended lancet barrel vault on a surrounding cornice is followed by a drawn-in choir arch and behind it a drawn-in two-bay choir with a semicircle under a barrel vault.
The frescoes in the nave Adoration of the Shepherds and Adoration of the Kings with the four church fathers and the archangels Michael and Raphael on the choir arch were painted by Johann Kärle in 1863 . The fresco Lamb of God in the choir vault was painted by the painter Walch in the 20th century. The glass windows were created by the Tyrolean Glass Painting Company in 1888 .
Furnishing
The neo-Romanesque high altar according to a plan by Knabl from 1863 was framed by Galleth and shows the painting Assumption of Mary by Kaspar Jele from 1863. Engelbert Kolp von created the figures John the Baptist and Joseph and the crucifix, two angels and the four church fathers in the tabernacle niches 1860 to 1870. On the altar table are the bones of St. Eugenius from the Roman Kalixtus catacomb, which the Augsburg merchant Gregor Deschler bought in 1734 as a gift for the Holzgau church in Rome. In front of the shrine is a marble statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus by J. Ruepp from the 20th century.
The right side altar shows the altar sheet Maria with child before Dominic by the painter Müller. The former altarpiece "Rosary Madonna" by the painter Johann Jakob Zeiller was sold to Gossensaß in South Tyrol. Engelbert Kolp created the characters Martin and Florian from 1860 to 1870.
On the right wall of the nave hangs the former side altar sheet “St. Martin ”(originally in the left side altar) by Paul Zeiller 1703. Opposite this (on the left nave wall) a large panel shows a scene from the life of St. Eugenius, painted by Paul Zeiller in 1734/35. Inscription: S: Eugenius Martyr Cuius Sacrum Corpus in Holzgau piae colitur .
The pulpit bears Christ with a trumpet angel on the sound cover and a relief with Mary and child with the four evangelists by Engelbert Kolp around 1870 on the basket. Engelbert Kolp also created the processional crucifix and Maria Immaculate in 1870. The Gothic font bears the marble statue of the Sacred Heart by sculptor Ruepp from the 20th century. The stations of the cross are from the end of the 19th century. Formerly in the sacristy there was a Mount of Olives Christ (around 1754) by Joseph Georg Witwer , which has now been lost.
The organ with a parapet positive is dated 1840. The bell dates from 1512.
The war memorial was placed in the porch of the church tower in 1970.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Tirol 1980 . Holzgau, Parish Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, Chapel of St. Sebastian, Friedhof, Kriegerdenkmal, pp. 342–344.
- The community of Holzgau. For the 600th anniversary of the parish church in 2001, Ortschronik, Holzgau community, Holzgau 2001.
- Josef Mair: Paul Zeiller 1658-1738 , Edition of the Museum Association of the Reutte District, Reutte 2008, p. 23 u. 47.
- Josef Mair and Herbert Wittmann: The sculptures of the artist family Witwer im Ausserfern from Imst , in: EXTRA VERREN 2013 (Yearbook of the Museum Association of the Reutte District).
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Coordinates: 47 ° 15 ′ 36.9 ″ N , 10 ° 20 ′ 33.2 ″ E