Parish church Kals am Großglockner
The parish church of Kals am Großglockner is the Roman Catholic parish church in the municipality of Kals am Großglockner in East Tyrol . The church, which is essentially medieval, is dedicated to St. Rupert and is surrounded by the Kals cemetery . Together with this, it is one of 13 objects in the community under monument protection .
history
Kals is an original parish of the Salzburg Archdiocese . The place was named as a parish as early as 1197. The parish patronage was subsequently in the hands of the Counts of Görz, later the patronage came into the hands of the Haller Damenstift and the sovereign prince. After the Napoleonic Wars, Kals was added to the diocese of Brixen , and after the First World War the Apostolic Administration Innsbruck-Feldkirch .
The first written mention of the parish church comes from the year 1366, when Bishop Heinrich IV. Von Lavant consecrated an altar. The parish church existed much longer at this time, as the consecration of the St. George branch church is documented from the same year . The oldest part of the church, which is essentially medieval, is the steeple. The consecration of three altars in 1439 by Lorenz von Lichtenberg is also known . On June 6th, 1516, the church was presumably rededicated by Bishop Berthold von Chiemsee after a renovation and the construction of the double chapel .
At the end of the 18th century, master builder Thomas Mayr drafted plans for a reconstruction of the church, but these were only realized between 1818 and 1821. The renovation led to an extension of the nave and a classical redesign. After another redesign at the end of the 19th century, a sacristy was rebuilt in 1925. An expansion of the church planned in 1937 was not implemented. In 1943, the interior was completely redesigned as part of extensive renovations. In the 1960s, the interior was redesigned again.
The vault frescos come from Wolfram Köberl . The 150 square meter composition depicts the Holy Trinity and Mary in the middle. Four scenes from the life of Bishop Rupert are lined up around it. From his time in Regensburg the missionary work in southern Germany and the baptism of the Bavarian Duke Theodo , in Salzburg the building of St. Peter , as well as a solemn procession in Altötting.
The founding legend of the church is shown in Kals (St. Rupert stood on the Tauern main ridge and threw a stick, at the point of impact the church was to be built.)
The death of St. Rupert is depicted above the triumphal arch. The music patrons King David and Cecilia can be seen above the choir , surrounded by angels. On the vault of the presbytery is the Last Supper with three well-known biblical symbolic representations of the sacrifices: Cain and Abel , then the sacrifice of Melchizedech and the sacrifice of Abraham .
Köberl's paintings are considered his best work in East Tyrol. They stand in the tradition of baroque church painting and achieve the goal of optically shortening and expanding the elongated space.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Excerpt from the description by Meinrad Pizzinini in the church guide of the parish of Kals
literature
- Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): The art monuments of the political district of Lienz. Part III: Iseltal, Defereggental, Kalsertal, Virgental. (= Austrian art topography. Volume LVII). Verlag Berger, Horn 2007, ISBN 978-3-85028-448-6 , pp. 301-323.
- Siegmund Kurzthaler: History - Art - Culture. Encounters in the Hohe Tauern National Park region. Innsbruck 1997, ISBN 3-7066-2148-7 , pp. 130-132.
Coordinates: 47 ° 0 ′ 3.6 ″ N , 12 ° 38 ′ 40.3 ″ E