Parish Church Mayrhofen
The Roman Catholic parish church of Mayrhofen stands in a cemetery in the north of the municipality of Mayrhofen in the Schwaz district in Tyrol . It is dedicated to “ Our Lady ” and belongs to the dean's office in Zell am Ziller in the Archdiocese of Salzburg . The building is a listed building .
history
The church probably goes back to the 14th century. After a fire, the building was rebuilt between 1500 and 1511 under the direction of the builder of the Hagauer Bauhütte Lienhart Plutaur . In a document from 1544 it is referred to as the "gotzhaus of our dear women zw Mairhoff". The Gothic choir was consecrated in 1511. Between 1589 and 1590 the church burned down again. In 1664 she was raised to the position of vicariate . This made her more independent of Zell am Ziller and saved the believers the long way there. In 1740/41 the nave was torn down and replaced by a baroque building by the Hippach master builder Hans Holzmeister . The most important paintings from this period are the 14 pictures of the Way of the Cross, which Joseph Michael Schmutzer created around 1743. The high altar is a four-pillar altar by Veit Steiner , who also comes from Tyrol . The Madonna and Child was created around 1840 by Josef Arnold the Elder. Ä.
It was only raised to a parish church in 1858. In 1968 and 1969 the parish church was demolished and rebuilt as an octagonal central building according to plans by Clemens Holzmeister . From 2011 to 2012 another renovation took place.
Church building
- Church exterior
The church consists of an octagonal central room and a Gothic choir with a 5/8 end. To the north of the choir there is a church tower with a pointed spire and vaulted roof with a round keystone on the ground floor.
- Church interior
Above the nave is a wooden ceiling with a picture of the Rose of Jericho . It was made by the painter Max Weiler in 1971. A fresco of the “ Coronation of Mary ” from 1745 in the choir is still preserved from the Baroque era .
Furnishing
The high altar was built around 1750. The upper picture shows God the Father . On the altar there are also figures of the Mother of God with Child from 1680, St. John the Evangelist and St. James . There are also figures of St. Michael and guardian angels to be seen. These date from the first half of the 18th century. The Way of the Cross by Josef Michael Schmutzer was made in 1743. The pictures of the twelve apostles on the gallery were painted in 1750.
organ
The organ was made by Eberhard Friedrich Walcker in 1977.
literature
- Mayrhofen. Parish Church of Our Lady In: Dehio manual . The art monuments of Austria: Tyrol. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-7031-0488-0 , p. 521.
- Mayrhofen parish (ed.): Parish Church of Our Lady , undated, p. 203 ( online, PDF ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Tyrol - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from June 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 26, 2015 (PDF).
Coordinates: 47 ° 10 ′ 5.9 ″ N , 11 ° 51 ′ 52.7 ″ E