Kelchsau parish church
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The Roman Catholic parish church of Kelchsau is located in the village of Kelchsau in the municipality of Hopfgarten im Brixental in the Kitzbühel district in Tyrol . It is consecrated to St. Rupert and belongs to the deanery Brixen im Thale in the archdiocese of Salzburg . The building is under monument protection ( list entry ).
Location description
The parish church is in the center of Kelchsau, south of Hopfgarten. It is surrounded by a cemetery.
history
The church was built in 1849 and 1850.
Church building
- Church exterior
The church is a unified early historical building with a round apse in the east and a western gable rider with a pointed gable helmet. The windows are ogival. On the west facade is a pointed arch portal, with round arch niches to the side. In it, the Saints Peter and Paul are painted on boards . There is a round window above the portal. The rectory is built on the south side.
- Church interior
The three-bay nave has a barrel vault with belt arches that rest on pilasters . The retracted triumphal arch is a segmental arch. The apse is closed round. The wall and ceiling paintings are by Virgil Groder from 1890. In the vault of the apse the Holy Trinity and a flock of angels are depicted. On the north wall of the choir, the four church fathers are depicted in illusionistic arcades. The nave vault is decorated with decorative paintings and busts of saints in quatrefoils . The stained glass on two choir windows is from the end of the 19th century, one nave window from 1932.
Furnishing
The uniform historicist furnishings were designed by Klemens Raffeiner and Augustin Valentin in 1891. The high altar consists of three aedicules and eyelashes . The main relief depicts an enthroned Madonna and Saints Virgil and Rupert . The niche figures on the side show Saint Joseph and Saint John the Baptist . The tabernacle is decorated with angels. There are also relief figures on the side altars: the left side altar is a Marian altar, the right a Sacred Heart altar. The pulpit has relief carvings of the four evangelists. In the church there is a baroque statue of Maria Immaculata . A smaller than life-sized crucifix with the painful Maria was created by Johann Fuchs in the mid-19th century. The group of figures Anna and Maria in fabric dresses dates from the 19th century. The stations of the cross as well as the organ were built around 1890.
literature
- Hopfgarten in Brixental. Parish church hl. Rupert In: Dehio Handbook . The art monuments of Austria: Tyrol. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-7031-0488-0 , p. 348f.
Individual evidence
- ^ Tyrol - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from June 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 26, 2015 (PDF).
Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '25.4 " N , 12 ° 8' 5.9" E