Langkampfen parish church

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Catholic parish church of St. Ursula in Langkampfen
Nave, view of the choir
Ceiling painting

The parish church Langkampfen is located in the village of Unterlangkampfen in the municipality of Langkampfen in the district of Kufstein in the state of Tyrol . The Roman Catholic parish church , consecrated to St. Ursula of Cologne , belongs to the Kufstein deanery of the Archdiocese of Salzburg . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection ( list entry ).

history

A parish was adopted before 839. In a document, a pastor was named in 1276. In 1315 a church was named. Two previous buildings from the 13th and 15th centuries were secured by excavation. The present church was built in 1720/1721 according to the plans of the architect Wolfgang Dienzenhofer. The church was consecrated in 1723. 1972 was a restoration.

architecture

The church building, which is medieval in its Baroque style and has a north tower, is surrounded by a cemetery.

The exterior of the church is structured with pilasters. The retracted choir with a round ending has a concave transition to the nave. The rectangular windows have transverse oval skylights above, and circular windows in the choir in the round apse. The essentially Gothic tower north of the choir has baroque, arched sound windows and an onion helmet with a lantern. The western front shows a gable field over a continuous cornice. The west portal has a profiled triangular gable and names the year 1557. The original coloring was exposed in 1972.

The interior of the church shows a three-bay nave and a one-bay choir with a round apse, both under needle cap barrels with belts on a circumferential cranked entablature on pilaster templates. The triumphal arch is rounded. The two-storey west gallery shows paintings on the parapets, above ornament painting around 1720 and below medallions with saints from the end of the 18th century.

The vault paintings by Joseph Schmutzer from the fourth quarter of the 18th century were painted over in the middle of the 19th century and exposed in 1946/1947; they show the Coronation of Mary, the Nativity in the choir and the four evangelists in the spandrels, angels making music, matyrium in the nave the St. Ursula and in the stitch caps the four church fathers. Frescoes in the west yoke around 1720 show Margareta, Rochus and Sebastian. Sebastian Anton Defregger painted apostle crosses with half-length apostles in 1843.

Furnishing

The high altar from 1727, 1787 and 1843 renovated, shows the altarpiece St. Ursula von Josef Liebherr 1786 with the statues Josef and Joachim on the side and shows the upper image of St. Anna with the statues Francis and Francis Xavier on the side. To the side in the choir, the console figures Michael and Raphael from the end of the 18th century.

The two baroque side altars, modified in 1883, show pictures by the painter Josef Gold in 1883, Madonna on the left, Nicholas on the right.

A life-size crucifix is ​​from the end of the 17th century.

Baroque lecture poles as guild poles of shipbuilders show ships and above them figurines Madonna, Nikolaus and Johannes Nepomuk.

The organ was built by Joseph Hochmuth in 1843. Heinrich Reinhart mentions a bell in 1604.

literature

  • Langkampfen, parish church St. Ursula in Unterlangkampfen. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Tirol 1980 . P. 466.

Web links

Commons : Sankt Ursula (Unterlangkampfen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 47 ° 32 '56.5 "  N , 12 ° 6' 4.9"  E