Catholic parish church in Hallstatt
The parish church of the Assumption of Mary , also called Maria am Berg , is the Roman Catholic parish church of the market town of Hallstatt in the Austrian Salzkammergut . The parish belongs to the dean's office Bad Ischl of the Diocese of Linz .
Building history
The first Catholic church was built in 1150 at the latest. From this the tower is still preserved. In 1320 the second, enlarged Romanesque church was consecrated by Auxiliary Bishop Hermann von Passau as Maria-Hilf Church. The construction of today's church on the steep rock began in the late Gothic period. The existing church space was finished in 1505. After the great fire in 1750, the Romanesque tower was given a baroque helmet.
Church interior
The main entrance to the church is the large south portal, which was built in 1519. Above the portal there are two frescos by an unknown master from the Danube School . In the anteroom there is a crucifixion group from around 1500, which probably comes from the master of the main altar.
The interior is formed by a two-aisled hall which ends in a double choir in the east. The octagonal central column divides the room into a west and a choir part. A late Romanesque, overbuilt passage connects to the western rear wall. During the interior restoration in 1966/67 and 2002, attempts were made to restore the condition to 1500.
Furnishing
When entering the interior, one sees two winged altars in the double choir .
The late Gothic winged altar
The neo-Gothic cross altar
The altar was created as part of the restoration and regotization of the church between 1888 and 1895. In the course of this, the baroque structure in front of which the crucifixion group stood was removed. The neo-Gothic cross altar is the work of the Hallstatt Wood School . The altar was designed by the architect Hermann von Riewel and made by teachers and students over a period of three years.
Smaller Gothic winged altar around 1450 - miner's altar
The winged altar, painted in oil on a gold background, originally stood in the Hauerkapelle am Salzberg. There it was replaced by a baroque Barbara altar. Miners hid the altar and thus saved it from burning and donated it to the church. From 1963 to 1965 it was restored by the Federal Monuments Office and installed in the confessional chapel attached to the north side of the parish church.
The dominant middle section depicts a crucifixion scene. The wings above show the bishops Rupert with the salt barrel and Wolfgang with the ax, each together with another bishop. The two pictures below show Saint Anne with Mary and the baby Jesus ( Anna selbdritt ) as well as Saint Christopher. The base and the upper end were carved in 1897 by the Hallstatt sculptor David Binder.
In 1987 the altar around its 4 picture panels in the wings was robbed by thieves and the wings were damaged. The panels were then replaced by black and white replicas.
In March 2017, the four wooden panels, which were also painted in oil on the back, were found by a special unit of the Carabinieri in Italy who specialize in art theft on the occasion of an intended sale by comparing pictures and raided the project. Initially, the panels were exhibited in Milan, handed over to Austria on October 4, 2017 in Rome and presented at a press conference in Linz on October 10. After the restoration, the altar was fully presented again on September 20, 2018.
organ
In 1893 the baroque organ from 1741 was replaced by a neo-Gothic one by the organ builder Johann Lachmayr from Linz-Urfahr . In 1999, the organ builder M. Walcker-Mayer carried out a total renovation.
Others
The choir stalls to the left and right of the altar with pictures of the apostles were the places of honor for the dignitaries of the salt works and the market. The stalls were carved in the early 18th century. It has an almost identical counterpart in Bad Ischl. In the breakthrough to the side chapel is the late Gothic baptismal font and the pulpit made of marble and oak wood with reliefs from the church fathers. The pulpit is a work of the Hallstatt Wood School.
Michael's Chapel
If you walk through the cemetery, which serves both Protestant and Catholic Christians, you can see the Gothic St. Michael's Chapel on the rock face. The year 1313 is considered to be the earliest that can be assumed to have been documented for the chapel. In the substructure is the ossuary, in which the bones and skulls from the cemetery have been kept since around 1600.
literature
- Friedrich Morton: The Catholic Church in Hallstatt . Linz 1953.
- Eckhart Sauser. The Hallstatt Altar of Mary. 1956.
- Johann Weidinger: Catholic parish church Hallstatt. 1966.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dean's Office Bad Ischl ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Homepage of the Diocese of Linz, accessed on September 6, 2014
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Roman Catholic parish Hallstatt (ed.): Röm.kath. Hallstatt parish church pp. 2–9, 15–19
- ↑ tel. Information at Hallstatt parish office, October 11, 2017.
- ↑ Art theft resolved after 30 years - ooe.ORF.at. Retrieved March 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Stolen altarpieces are back orf.at, October 10, 2017, accessed October 11, 2017.
- ↑ Hallstatt altarpieces again "at home" orf.at, September 20, 2018, accessed September 20, 2018.
- ^ Orgelbau M. Walcker-Mayer : The Johann-Lachmayr-Organ of the cath. Parish church in 4830 Hallstatt , 2003
Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '48.2 " N , 13 ° 38' 55.7" E