Parish church Matrei am Brenner
The parish church of the Assumption of Mary , also Matreier parish church , also pilgrimage church Unser Herr im Elend , is a Roman Catholic church in the old town (municipality Pfons ) in Tyrol and seat of the original parish Matrei am Brenner .
The late Gothic Baroque church building with a Romanesque south tower with late Gothic sound windows stands east of the Sill in Pfonser municipality area and is surrounded by a cemetery.
history
Only mentioned in a document in 1311, a late Gothic renovation was carried out in 1470 by master Stefan. From 1754 to 1755 the church was enlarged and redesigned in Baroque style according to the plans of court painter Josef Adam Mölk .
architecture
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The nave has a three-sided closed choir and left and right transept-like three-sided closed side chapels and on both sides between the choir and side chapels added sacristies. Above the large arched windows are upper gates with small coupled arched windows. The south tower with a short pointed gable helmet stands flush in the western gable facade, is structured with Romanesque round arch friezes, in the bell storey there are late Gothic coupled tracery windows. The west facade has a pointed arched, profiled stone portal, overhead coupled round arched windows. On the side of the portal, late Gothic fresco remains were uncovered in 1925, on the left the Lamentation , on the right the birth of Christ and the Annunciation to the Shepherds , which Ludwig Konraiter created in 1482.
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In the Emporenjoch there is a double gallery with built parapets. The two-bay nave and the choir is vaulted with a lance-cap barrel, the crossing is vaulted with a flat dome, and the side chapels and apis, which are closed inside, are vaulted with half-domes. The walls are structured with pillars with pilasters and cranked beams, the windows are arched, the three-pass windows and oculi curved. There is a rococo ornament in the vaults.
The ceiling frescoes were created by Josef Adam Mölk , scenes from the legend of the Matreier Man of Sorrows in the choir's stitching caps, Saints John and Luke, Aloysius, Euphemia, Matthew and Markus in the spandrels from left to right, and in the transept Salomon the Queen of Sheba led to Throne, on the pendentives the four parts of the world, to the north King Wenceslas breaks the staff over St. Johannes Nepomuk, south of Herod, condemns John the Baptist, in the nave Emperor Charles VI. receives the news of the victory over the Turks, of which the Blessed Mother and St. Domenicus, in the gussets Jahel kills Sisara, Abigail and David, Judith and Holofernes, Rahab and the spies. Waldemar Kolmsperger the Younger created the ceiling fresco Admission of Mary to Heaven in the choir in 1945.
Furnishing
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The rococo altar from the third quarter of the 18th century has a high plinth with sacrificial portals and a column structure with cranked entablature and shows the altarpiece of the Assumption of Mary by Josef Adam Mölk from 1755. Above the tabernacle is the clothed wooden figure Our Lord in Misery from the beginning of the 14th century. The figures are St. Dominic, on the right St. Catherine of Siena, on the entablature there are angels, in the excerpt a trinity group. The transept altars from the third quarter of the 18th century. The left altar panel St. Johannes Nepomuk in front of the Madonna, the right altar panel hl. Anthony of Padua, are attributed to the workshop of Josef Adam Mölk. There are two classicist side altars in the choir, the left altar sheet Immaculate Conception, right Engelsturz, around 1837. The classicist pulpit from the 1st half of the 19th century shows the bas-reliefs of Carrying the Cross, Last Judgment, Handing over of the Tablets of the Law to Moses. In the transept there are oil paintings of St. Peter and St. Maria Magdalena from the second half of the 18th century. The Stations of the Cross created the painter Josef Renzler in 1840. The carved Pietà in the baptistery was created in 1936 by the sculptor and wood carver Hans Buchgschwenter .
The main body of the organ is from the first quarter of the 19th century, the work with a new Rückpositiv was created in 1976 by the Reinisch-Pirchner organ builder .
On the southern wall of the cemetery is a bronze bust of the priest and politician Franz Kolb by Hans Buchgschwenter from 1961. Hans Buchgschwenter also created the fountain in front of the parish church with a Madonna figure made of artificial stone in 1963.
Web links
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- Dehio Tirol 1980 , Pfons, parish church Mariae Himmelfahrt, seat of the original parish Matrei am Brenner , pages 605 f.
- Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary , web presence of the parish Matrei am Brenner
Coordinates: 47 ° 8 ′ 12.1 ″ N , 11 ° 27 ′ 13.5 ″ E