Parish Church of Klam
The parish church of Klam is a Roman Catholic church in Klam in Upper Austria with the patronage of the discovery of the cross .
geography
The Church in Klam is the parish church of the parish Klam, a Roman Catholic parish in the deanery Grein in the region Mühlviertel in for the state of Upper Austria competent Austrian diocese of Linz in the ecclesiastical province of Vienna . The parish, which is managed under parish number 4155, looks after 724 Catholics who are spread across localities in the political communities of Baumgartenberg , Klam , Münzbach and Saxen .
The parish area does not coincide with the boundaries of the political municipality of Klam: While the villages of Achatzberg, Letten and Unterhörnbach of the municipality of Klam belong to the parish of Saxen, the localities of Schneckenreitsberg belong to the Klam villages of Gauning, Markt Klam, Linden, Niederkalmberg, Oberhörnbach and Sperken Baumgartenberg community and the Münzbach village Untergaisberg to the Klam parish.
The parish is located in the southwest of the deanery and is the smallest parish of the deanery Grein in terms of area and number of inhabitants. The neighboring parishes Baumgartenberg and Münzbach in the west belong to the deanery Perg , the parish Bad Kreuzen in the north and the parish Saxen in the south as well as the parish Klam belong to the deanery Grein.
history
History of the parish
The parish of Saxen was responsible for the residents of the parish of Klam until March 6th, 1784. In addition to Naarn im Machlande and parish Ried in the Riedmark, it is one of the three oldest parishes in the lower Mühlviertel , which was already mentioned in the confirmation Ludovici Pii in 823 was first mentioned in a document.
The church in Saxen was dedicated to St. Stephan , those in the village of Hofkirchen to St. Nicholas . The latter was demolished in 1798. The bond between the lords of Clam and the church in Hofkirchen was close, as it was their burial church. During the Reformation there were Protestant clergy in Hofkirchen . The priests in the Church in Saxen was of Canons of the pin Waldhausen perceived as the parish Saxen from 1399 there inkorpiert was.
The area of this parish stretched from the Danube to the northern forest and was bounded in the east by the Ysper and in the west by the area of today's parishes Arbing and Baumgartenberg . Klam was the last parish to be removed from this area in 1784 after the actual reorganization of the parish areas was essentially completed in the 12th century.
Records of the events in the area of today's Klam were in the vicarage of Saxen , which was however set on fire on March 31, 1787, so that many documents on matters in the area of Klam have been lost. In 1937 the parish archive was reorganized. On May 1, 1939, the religious fund's patronage expired. On May 15, 1941, the branch of the Cross Sisters in St. Anna's House was closed. From December 17, 1943, the Klam parish was run in personal union with the Arbing parish.
History of the parish church
The church was built between 1659 and 1664 by Johann Gottfried Perger zu Clam as a branch church of Saxen .
Before that, a chapel was set up in Clam Castle , in which services were held for the residents there, while the market residents had to visit the parish church in Saxen .
The decision to set up a chapel in Markt Klam is based on a vow made by the lord of the castle Johann Gottfried Perger to Clam and Prunhof in the event that the threat from the Swedes is averted .
The baroque construction began on August 4, 1656 on the former Köglplatz . In 1660 the church , tower and exterior plaster were finished and after an interruption in 1661 construction work continued. Clemens Beutler from Ebelsberg is named as a painter . The inauguration took place on January 6, 1664 by Abbot Bernhard from Baumgartenberg Monastery .
An agreement was reached with Waldhausen Abbey in 1704 to hold the services, but this was ended 11 years later. In 1760 the church burned down, was rebuilt in late Baroque style and completed in 1767.
On March 6, 1784, under the patronage of the Religionsfonds, the church became a parish church by separating the Klam parish from the Saxen parish. The existing church received the organ of the Marienkirche in Struden , which was abandoned at that time , the pulpit of the church on Ulrichsberg in Baumgartenberg , a bell of the abandoned Franciscan monastery in Grein and the paraments and two bells of the demolished church in Hofkirchen near Saxen . School and parsonage had to be built, with the lordship of Burg Clam donating the land to the religious fund.
In 1868 an organ was delivered by the organ builder Breinbauer in Ottensheim , the church tower was newly covered with sheet metal and a gold-plated cross was attached. Towards the end of the 19th century, the cemetery was expanded and a morgue was built by the community. A renovation of the interior, the glass windows and the church roof took place under dean Johann Weiß in the period from 1928 to 1936. Interior renovations took place in 1972 and 1981, the exterior renovations of the church and parsonage last in 1983.
In October 2014, a digital sacred organ from the company Johannus from the Netherlands was installed in the organ loft to complement the pipe organ that had been in existence since 1868. This instrument with 34 registers and 2 manuals was approved on September 14, 2014, the patronage of the Klam parish by diocesan bishop Dr. Solemnly consecrated to Ludwig Schwarz.
The church building and its furnishings
The church building, which was rebuilt after the major fire in 1760, consists of a simple, three-bay hall with a flat barrel roof and deeply drawn-down stitch caps . There is a statue of Nepomuk above the portal .
At the northern side altar there is a statue of Joseph with a flower stick and baby Jesus , as well as a statuette of St. Therese of Lisieux and St. Anthony of Padua . At the southern side altar there is a Maria Immaculata on a crescent moon . A Blasius figure from around 1900 stands in a niche . The 17th century baptismal font is also on the south wall .
There is a statue of St. Sophie and the double coat of arms of the Clam-Martinic, which was attached in 1894 at the wedding of Gottfried Graf von Clam with Sophie von Stockau. The tabernacle in the choir was made in the neo-renaissance style in 1893 with baroque figures. The crucifix dates from the second quarter of the 18th century. On the north wall of the choir there is a statue of St. Leopold , on the south wall one of St. Florian . At the triumphal arch another's coat of arms of the Lords of Clam attached.
priest
- Several priests come from the parish
(Number in brackets is the year of ordination)
- Alfons Lang (1931)
- Friedrich Aigner (1940)
- Salvator Steinbrunner (1952)
- Maximilian Narbeshuber (1958)
- Michael Puchberger (1984)
- The following pastors were active in the parish in Klam
(Numbers in brackets refer to the period of activity in brackets)
- Sergius Sperr (1784 to 1791)
- Karl Steinhauser (1791 to 1802)
- Firmian Eisterer (1802 to 1815)
- Kalixtus Zöttler (1815)
- Josef Strohmair (1815 to 1820)
- Karl Anton Huhn (1820 to 1827)
- Josef Geimayr (1827 to 1828)
- Wolfgang Forster (1828 to 1841)
- Franz Teufel (1841 to 1852)
- Anton Mühlbauer (1852)
- Josef Wiesmeyr (1864 to 1874)
- Alois Wieser (1874 to 1875)
- Johann Pichler (1875 to 1885)
- Johann Kastner (1885)
- Josef Reif (1885 to 1917)
- Franz Neuwirth (1917 to 1918)
- Josef Kaltenböck (1918 to 1928)
- Johann Weiß (1928 to 1936)
- Alois Leitner (1936)
- Josef Kleinbruckner (1936 to 1939)
- Johann Schauer (1938)
- Kajetan Schachinger (1938 to 1939)
- Josef Kreuzeder (1939)
- Franz Bienert (1939 to 1958)
- Ferdinand Fürthauer (1958 to 1996)
- Josef Hinterleitner (1996 to 2002)
- Leopold Gruber (2002 to date)
literature
- Eckhard Oberklammer : Perg district, art and history. Linz 2010, pp. 95ff.
- Josef Lettner: 600 years market, 200 years parish Klam, Small home book of the market community Klam 1984. Market community Klam (publisher), Freistadt 1984.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Parish 4155 on dioezese-linz.at.
Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 28.9 ″ N , 14 ° 46 ′ 56.1 ″ E