Parish Church Imst
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| Denomination : | Roman Catholic |
| Patronage : | Assumption of the Virgin Mary |
| Consecration year : | 1350 |
| Parish : | Imst |
| Address: | Pfarrgasse 35, 6460 Imst |
Coordinates: 47 ° 14 ′ 45.5 ″ N , 10 ° 44 ′ 24.5 ″ E
The parish church of Imst is in the town of Imst in Tyrol . The Roman Catholic parish church of the Assumption of Mary belongs to the dean's office in Imst in the diocese of Innsbruck . The late Gothic hall church , the main work of the Imster Bauhütte , is a listed building .
history
In 1260 a pastor is mentioned in a document, in 1350 a church was consecrated. In 1462 a new building of the church was started with Master Heinrich von der Imster Bauhütte, in 1493 the nave was completed with Master Jörg and the church was consecrated. In 1780 the inventory was redesigned in Baroque style. After a fire, the church was re-vaulted in 1822. At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, the Gothic components were exposed and historical additions were made. In 1970 the church was restored.
architecture
The late Gothic , three-aisled hall church is surrounded by a cemetery. The polygonal choir is as wide as the central nave and lower than the nave. The mighty, 84.5 m high tower , the highest in Tyrol, with a high pointed helmet stands in the northern corner of the choir. It has two large, grooved, pointed arched windows on each side and twin windows with tracery in the gables above . The sacristy connects to the east of the tower . A stair tower stands in the corner of the north aisle and the tower . The nave has triangular pilaster strips up to three quarters of the wall height on the outside , and up to the full height in the lower choir. The nave and choir have a continuous base cornice , a coffin cornice and a painted, wide tracery frieze under the eaves. The north and south portals have barbed pointed arches . The west facade has a stepped gable with pinnacles and ogival blind niches in three horizontal rows, a rose window and two-step corner buttresses . The west portal from 1908 has an ogival, multiple grooved and barred walls.
The gable facade shows a Gothic mural St. Erasmus (around 1520) and on the right remains of a cross-bearing and crucifixion (around 1500). On the south wall of the nave is a St. Christopher fresco from 1484, renewed by the painter Thomas Walch . There Daniel in a landscape, a mining scene from the end of the 15th century and the fragment of architecture and landscape, remains of a crucifixion from the beginning of the 16th century, a man of sorrows (around 1520) and a world judgment (around 1480) at the East wall of the nave shows a crucifixion from the beginning of the 16th century. On the south side of the choir is a baroque painting Death of St. Joseph and the Coronation of Mary , renewed in the 19th century.
The three-aisled, four- bay nave hall has a star rib vault in the central nave, an ornamental star rib vault in the south aisle and a parallel rib vault in the north aisle. The vaults rest on the six pillars between the nave and the aisles and the circular services on the outer aisle walls. The ribs were reconstructed on the old fold marks in 1909. The five-axis, neo-Gothic west gallery from 1908 is vaulted with mesh ribs and has a spiral staircase in the north corner. The triumphal arch is ogival. The retracted, two-bay choir has a five-eighth closing . The windows in the choir and nave are tracery windows with two lanes.
The stained glass was used between 1889 and 1912: In the choir the representation of Pentecost , Assumption of Mary , Adoration of the Child , Mary appears to John, the birth of Mary , Annunciation . In the nave, offering , marriage, the Holy Family with Joseph as a carpenter, the passage to the Temple, the Visitation of the Virgin , the Lamentation of Christ .
A coat of arms tombstone names Walter Hendl, who died in 1495.
Furnishing
There is a remarkable late Gothic crucifix by Hans Kels the Elder around 1510. The image of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in the choir was painted by Martin Alois Stadler. The pictures Death of St. Joseph and Christ on the Cross were painted in 1829 by the painter Josef Arnold the Elder . The neo-Gothic side altars bear figures by Franz Xaver Renn . The left altarpiece Herz Jesu and the right altarpiece were painted by Johann Gabl (1849).
The neo-Gothic pulpit is from the second half of the 19th century. A pietà is from the 17th century. The station images from the mid-19th century painted Anton Psenner . The lecture poles are from the 17th to the end of the 18th century.
Altar , ambo , baptismal font and apostles were created by the painter and sculptor Elmar Kopp from 1970 to 1973 .
Bells
The ringing of the parish church of Imst includes six bells that were cast by the Grassmayr bell foundry in Innsbruck. Five bells were purchased in 1925, the big bell, called "Annemarie", in 1955.
The atmosphere of the bell is: H 0 cis 1 dis 1 fis 1 gis 1 h 1 .
With the exception of the two smallest bells, all of the others have the lace-catchers widespread in Tyrol .
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Tirol 1980 . Imst, parish church Mariae Himmelfahrt, Michael's chapel in the cemetery, cemetery, niche shrine at the entrance to the parish church, pp. 351–354.
