Parish Church Itter (Tyrol)
The Roman Catholic parish church of Itter is located in the municipality of Itter in the Kitzbühel district in Tyrol . It is consecrated to St. Joseph and belongs to the deanery of Brixen im Thale in the Archdiocese of Salzburg . The building is a listed building .
history
When there was no parish church in Itter, masses and other church celebrations had to be held in the castle chapel of Itter Castle . After years of use, the buildings of the castle increasingly suffered and it was a long way to reach the original and tenth parish of Kirchbichl . After a long request, the residents of Itter received the permission to build a church from the then Bishop of Salzburg, Sigismund von Schrattenbach . Half of the construction was financed by him.
The church was built between 1762 and 1764 with the help of the population according to plans by the Salzburg court building manager Wolfgang Hagenauer and the builder Andreas Hueber from Kitzbühel . The building has remained unchanged to this day in the form it was built with the west tower .
Before construction began in 1761, Itter was a vicariate of the Kirchbichl parish . In March 1811, due to Bavarian-Napolean turmoil, Itter was assigned to the Brixen parish "quoad Decanalia" (in matters of the deanery). 130 years later, in 1891, it was made an independent parish .
The first renovation was necessary in 1885 . A second interior renovation was carried out from 1985 to 1987, which gave the church building its current appearance.
architecture
The church has the classic Rococo style. It consists of a single-nave approximately 25 m long hall, which ends with an apse . The half-height glass windows bring a lot of light into the room. The entrance gate is on the west side. The church tower protruding above the roof has an onion dome. Above the church portal there are three larger-than-life figures, on the right St. John with a cross-staff, on the left St. Anna and below the bell chamber, St. Mary . These had to be extensively renovated and restored in 2011. There is no sacristy attached to the side , as is known from other churches.
Furnishing
The Holy Family was venerated during the construction period. That is why the wedding of Mary is shown in the main dome. The inner dome is framed by four medallions. These show the Visitation of Mary, the Adoration of the Shepherds, the presentation of Jesus in the temple and the 12-year-old Jesus with the temple scholars, and Schrattenbach's coat of arms. The frescoes were created by Johann Weiß in 1764 .
The main altar painting by Peter Anton Lorenzi from 1770 shows St. Joseph in a dream fleeing to Egypt, with the two diocesan patrons Rupert and Virgil standing on both sides . At the vault of the presbytery one again sees St. Joseph holding the Infant Jesus towards the world. Among the oratorios , the four great doctors of the church - Ambrose with the beehive, Gregory the Great with a book and quill pen, Augustine with the burning heart and Jerome with the cardinal's hat - are shown.
The right side altar shows the evangelist John , as an exile on the island of Patmos, sees the Mother of God as "Immaculate Received" , the left side altar is adorned with the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan . This altar is soon after its construction by indulgences from Pope Clement XIII. for a "godly death" was intended. In the upper medallion, the seven refuges are depicted, the motif of which prompted the Itterers to found the "Brotherhood of the Seven Refugees" (today: Association for a good hour of death ). According to tradition, a brotherhood service is still celebrated for every deceased after the day of the funeral. The side altar pictures, like the high altar picture, were painted by Peter Anton Lorenzi in 1770.
To the left of the main altar is the rather simply designed pulpit. On the right side walls you can find the crucified Jesus with his mother, on the left in a medallion the Madonna with Jesus in her arms. In the remaining two niches directly opposite the side altars there is a confessional .
To the right of the main entrance is the Petrus altar from the abandoned castle chapel, which shows the scenes from the life of Simon Peter . The Stations of the Cross are also from there.
organ
Above the main entrance is the organ made by Matthäus Mauracher's sons in 1898. It was renovated in 1999. It has a total of eleven registers .
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Bells
In the west tower of the parish church there is a four-part bell from the Grassmayr bell foundry from Innsbruck. The bells have the Salve Regina tone sequence es 1 - g 1 - b 1 - c 2 . The large and small bells were purchased in 1922, the other two bells in 1947.
Web links
- History of the Itter parish church on kirchen.net
- Bells of the parish church of Itter on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ^ Tyrol - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from June 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 21, 2016 (PDF).
- ^ Itterer Gemeindeblatt - 52nd edition / 2011 PDF
- ↑ Müller, Wiesauer: Parish Church hl. Joseph. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved August 16, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Julia Fickert: LORENZI, Peter Anton. In: Artisti Italiani in Austria, University of Innsbruck, 2005
- ↑ Orgelbau Erler ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Information on the organ
Coordinates: 47 ° 28 ′ 12.6 ″ N , 12 ° 8 ′ 34.7 ″ E