Parish church Oberalm
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The Roman Catholic parish church of Oberalm is elevated northeast of Oberalm in the Hallein district in the state of Salzburg . It has been the parish church of the Oberalm parish since 1907 and belongs to the Hallein deanery of the Archdiocese of Salzburg . The the martyr Stephen church dedicated to celebrating on Boxing Day , the 26 December , the patron saint . There is a monument protection .
history
One church was mentioned in a document in 1347 as a branch church of Hallein , on June 1, 1907 it was elevated to a parish church, and in 1910 it was renovated. The nave and the tower are essentially Romanesque. The Gothic wall pillar church with a west tower was given a sacristy annex to the south of the nave and choir in 1723 and a side aisle to the north of the nave in 1729. The outside of the church was restored in 1963, and inside in 1966.
architecture
- Church exterior
The church is surrounded by a cemetery. The undivided nave stands under a gable roof. The north aisle has a pent roof. The southern arched portal is grooved several times. The Gothic choir with a three-eighths closure has a circumferential base and at the corners and the southern yokes round services with a base and a concluding groove. The tower has five storeys, was renovated at the top in 1713, has bi-porous windows on the fourth storey, triforic windows on the fifth and has a baroque onion with a lantern. The tower has round arched portals in the north and south and a pointed arched fluted portal in the east. The northern portal is walled up. The tower hall has a late Gothic cross rib vault with a round keystone. In the south of the nave, a two-storey sacristy was added under a hipped roof in 1723. West on the ground floor of the sacristy is a groin-vaulted chapel for the dead. A crucifix by the sculptor Johann Georg Mohr (1695) hangs next to the mortuary chapel on the south wall of the nave .
- Church interior
The nave and the choir have ribbed vaults with a four-part diamond star from 1519. The four-bay nave has a late Gothic loft with a central pillar in the first bay. The wooden parapet of the gallery is from the 18th century.
Furnishing
- High altar
The remarkable baroque high altar from 1707 has a structure by Jakob Taigl . It shows the altar sheet Stoning of Stephen and the upper picture Seven Refuge by Johann Martin Schaumberger . On the side of the altar are the figures of St. Johannes Bap. and Laurentius , in the essay those of Georg and Florian and above the sacrificial passage portals the figures Virgil and Dionysius , all by the sculptor Johann Georg Mohr . Johann Nepomuk Högler created the tabernacle in 1786.
- Left side altar
The left side altar dates from 1736, the altar structure was created by Josef Krimpacher , the altar sheet , painted by Franz Christoph Mayrhofer , shows the Last Supper of Jesus , kneeling and standing angels , made by Johann Georg Ross , function as console figures . The figure of Immaculata, created around 1920, used to stand here .
- Altar on the north wall of the aisle
The altar structure was created by Leopold Fux around the middle of the 17th century and shows a Pietà in the middle , the predella dates from around 1700. In the essay God the Father , on the side angel figures with the instruments of Jesus' passion .
- Right side altar
The predella of the altar is dated 1706, the altar leaf shows the crucifixion and was painted by Lorenz Mayerhofer , the side console figures represent the hll. Nikolaus (left) and Leonhard , in the center of the essay the Archangel Michael is enthroned with the soul scales , flanked by the hll. Sebastian (left) and Rochus .
- Crucifixion group
The crucifixion group with the apostles Johannes and Maria under the cross was created in 1695 by Johann Georg Mohr and is attached to the north wall of the left aisle.
organ
In 2008 the church received a new organ from organ builder Karl Göckel . The instrument has 22 registers on two manuals and a pedal . The key action is mechanical, the key action electrically.
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
- Sub-octave coupling: II / I 16 ′, II / II 16 ′
- Super octave coupling: II / P 4 ′
- Playing aids :
- Remarks
- ↑ Vacant, to be used later.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. In: Dehio Salzburg 1986 , Oberalm (with floor plan), Vienna 1986, pp. 282–284.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Personnel of the world and religious clergy of the Archdiocese of Salzburg for 1957 ( Schematismus 1957), ed. from the Archbishop's Ordinariate Salzburg 1957, p. 193f.
- ^ Dehio Salzburg. Vienna 1986, p. 284.
Coordinates: 47 ° 42 ′ 6.3 " N , 13 ° 5 ′ 59.1" E