Parish church Klaus on the Pyhrnbahn

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Catholic parish church Memorial of the Sorrows of Mary in Klaus an der Pyhrnbahn

The Roman Catholic parish church of Klaus an der Pyhrnbahn is located in the municipality of Klaus an der Pyhrnbahn in the Kirchdorf an der Krems district in Upper Austria . It is the commemoration of Sorrows of Mary consecrated and belongs to the deanery Windischgarsten in the Diocese of Linz . The building is a listed building .

Location description

The parish church forms a building complex with the rectory and is located in the middle of the village.

history

The rectory with the chapel was built between 1727 and 1731 and expanded in 1947 and 1948. Due to the location of the chapel in the middle of the village, the mountain church Klaus lost its importance and has since served mainly as a wedding and burial church.

From 1982 the long-cherished plan to transform the previous chapel into a parish church was carried out. Architect Gottfried Nobl was responsible for the planning . In 1983 the renovations and extensions were completed.

The solemn consecration of the building as the new parish church of the parish of Klaus was also carried out in 1983 by Diocesan Bishop Maximilian Aichern .

Church building

Church exterior

The chapel was originally a late Baroque central building with a curved north facade. Above it is a ridge with an onion helmet .

Furnishing

inside view

The (former) high altar painting shows a Pietà and was painted by Paul Troger in the second quarter of the 18th century . In the altar area there are two baroque angels from the second third of the 18th century. There is a wash basin from 1646 in the rectory .

In the course of the expansion in 1983, a light spruce ceiling and olive green benches were installed. The supporting structures are made of light wood. The large dimensions of the church space were matched to the valuable Troger picture. A high altar was no longer provided in the new parish church.

The seamless expansion of the room and the semicircular arrangement are a complete renewal of the previous room concept. The old, narrow chapel was reduced to two bank blocks. The new furnishings in the chancel - altar, tabernacle shrine and ambo - were designed in a modern, simple form by Rudolf Kolbitsch . The new meditation pictures on the Way of the Cross come from the glass workshop in Schlierbach, also based on designs by Kolbitsch.

literature

  • DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Upper Austria. Klaus at the Pyhrnbahn. Parish Church Memorial of Mary's Pain Federal Monuments Office (ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1977, 6th edition, p. 133f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Upper Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento of June 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 26, 2015 (PDF).
  2. ^ Parish, timetable. Klaus an der Pyhrnbahn municipal office, December 1, 2014, accessed on December 26, 2015 .
  3. ^ A b c d Franz Josef Limberger: Klaus, Harmony of Opposites. Festschrift 30 Years Music Summer Klaus . 1st edition. Printing and publishing house Ziegler, Kirchdorf ad Krems 1992, p. 46, 87-90 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 49 ′ 47.4 "  N , 14 ° 9 ′ 25.2"  E