Ochsengarten parish church
The Roman Catholic parish church of Ochsengarten is located in the village of Ochsengarten in the municipality of Haiming in the Imst district in Tyrol . It is dedicated to the Feast of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary and belongs to the Silz Dean's Office in the Innsbruck diocese . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
Location description
The church building is on Kühtaistraße in the Rotte Wald, which belongs to the village of Ochsengarten. To the west, the cemetery connects to the church.
history
In the earliest times Ochsengarten belonged to the large parish of Silz. Thousands of vertical meters had to be overcome on the ascent. Therefore, in 1612, the Ochsengarten pastoral care community was assigned to the Ötz curate. But even this way was long and difficult, especially in winter, so that the residents asked for their own priest. They raised a lot of money to build a new, larger church and a widum. The prince-bishop's ordinariate in Brixen met this request on April 21, 1777. The secular authorities at Petersberg Castle, the court lord Count Theodor von Wolkenstein, also promised to furnish the new chapel with paraments. From January 5, 1778, Father Severin Erhart was sent as the first priest to hold church services and school.
However, Severin Erhart and his two successors were only chaplains of the Ötz Curate . In 1785 Ochsengarten was raised to local chaplaincy by the princely government . From 1841 onwards, the prince-bishop's ordinariate in Brixen was allowed to occupy a secular priest. Prince-Bishop Bernard donated a significant sum to the “poor church in Ochsengarten” in 1851 and urged the congregation to persevere “in true faith and brotherly love”. On the occasion of a renovation, a church consecration is mentioned in a document in 1882 .
On August 22, 1862, Prince-Bishop Dr. Vinzenz Gasser solemnly invites the church in honor of UL Fr. Maria Visitation. In addition, the chaplaincy was connected to a small inn from 1883. In 1891 the local chaplaincy was raised to an independent parish. The first pastor was Fortunat Kirchmair.
School lessons have been held since 1778, but it can be assumed that lessons only took place in the classroom of the newly built Widum from 1783. What chaplains and pastors taught was taken over by the first secular teacher in 1908 at the one-class elementary school in Ochsengarten. Since 1953, teaching is no longer in the Widum, but in the newly built schoolhouse.
architecture
Exterior description
The classicist parish church was built from 1778 to 1783 and is a simple late-baroque hall building which, together with the widum and the school room, forms a building association. The long, dark gray Eternit roof , renewed in 1974, covers the widum and the church. Between the two rises the square tower with the wooden octagonal lantern and the clapboard-covered onion dome .
The tower bears the years "17 JL 83" and "18 IH 80" and "1955". You can reach it from Widum. In the Widum there is a winter chapel dedicated to “St. Cross “built in. On the south side of the church is the sgraffito “Good Shepherd” (1955), on the east side of the widum the sgraffito “St. Franziskus ”(1958), both by Norbert Strolz from Strengen. To the left of the entrance on the south side of the Widum is a baroque sundial from the 18th century. The designer is probably Leopold Puellacher . It is noted in the catalog of fixed sundials in Austria and is considered to be of particular value in the gnomic field. It indicates the time in true local time and the length of the day. To the right of the entrance the coat of arms of the Apostolic Administration Innsbruck can be seen; a light gray shield shows a red eagle on one side and a black silver cross on the other. The last renovation of the church was completed in 1985. The Widum was rebuilt in 1988 to be homely.
Inside description
The interior of the church has the shape of a wide hall with a flat barrel vault. The flat choir arch rests on pillars. The organ gallery rests on two pillars and has a wooden balustrade. The church was decorated in 1866 by Otto Bock from Imst. The mercy seat can be seen on the ceiling in the prayer room , created in 1937 by Ludwig Sturm from Innsbruck.
The main altar has a simple column structure with cranked beams and a curved top. In the middle is the altar panel with the painting of the Visitation of Mary by Elisabeth and Josef and Joachim. It is designed in the style of Josef Anton Zoller , who died in 1791 . Putti hovered in the top, decorating the image of Mary of Good Advice with garlands of flowers. Two angel figures kneel to the side of the tabernacle. Behind the angels stands Joseph on the left and Antonius with the baby Jesus on the right. Medallion-shaped cover paintings show Peter on the left and Paul on the right.
The former pulpit was dismantled by the sculptor Öfner in March 1966 and rebuilt after the restoration in the Hall basilica of the Sacred Heart Monastery. The roof of the pulpit is crowned by a figure of the Good Shepherd. In Ochsengarten the pulpit was on the north wall of the church.
Two oil paintings from around 1700 used to hang on the walls of the nave: a Christ on the Mount of Olives and a crucifixion group with the crucified, Mary, Johannes and Magdalena. You can now see them on the gallery, left and right of the new organ. The Stations of the Cross by Theres Strigl were installed on November 18, 1860 by Father Ildefons Hechenblaickner from Telfs Monastery . The station pictures for processions show the four evangelists according to the vision of the prophet Ezekiel: angel, lion, sacrificial bull and eagle. In the nave there is a figure of John the Baptist on the wall at the front left and a dressed Immaculate on the right.
The two bells were not removed during the First World War. A small chalice with the year 1731 and the Count's Wolkenstein coat of arms was loaned to the first pastor P. Severin Erhart by Count PP Wolfgang Wolkenstein on Petersberg for use with the holy mass offering. Another chalice with a paten was consecrated by the Bishop of Prague, Franziskus de Paula Cardinalis de Schönborn , for the church on Alpe Kühtai.
Renovations
The first renovation took place in 1880. In 1937 the church and Widum received a new, dark gray Eternit roof. In 1984/85 an interior renovation was carried out by the Pescoller company from Bruneck with the personal assistance of the parish priest P. Pius.
graveyard
The cemetery was redesigned in 1985 and its niche chapel restored. A funeral chapel was built in the north of the cemetery. It has four copper reliefs with different representations: Jesus falls under the cross, crucifixion, descent from the cross, resurrection. In the vestibule there are two bronze plaques as a war memorial; on the left the names of the fallen from both world wars are recorded and on the right the representation of a fallen man can be seen. All bronze works were made by Elmar Kopp in 1985 .
Furnishing
The high altar was erected in 1814. The altarpiece shows the "Visitation of Mary". It is flanked by statues of Saints Joseph and Anthony . In the church there are two canvas paintings from the second half of the 18th century, depicting the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem and the crucifixion of Jesus.
organ
The organ was built by Franz (II.) Reinisch in 1899. The new organ has 6 registers and 1 manuals and was consecrated on June 22nd, 1986.
Brotherhoods and alliances
- Christian teaching brotherhoods with the title festival "Assumption of Mary" (1790)
- Herz-Mariä-Brotherhoods, affiliated to the Archbruderschaft Maria vom Siege (1846), reactivated on August 22, 1954
- Ochsengarten prayer brotherhood with Anicii in France (1867)
- Professional alliances: youth, men, virgins and women (1885-1941)
- Brotherhood of the Sacred Heart of Jesus with affiliation to the "Cordis-Jesu" congregation in the Church of Santa Maria de Pace in Rome (1908)
literature
- Haiming. Parish Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary. In: Dehio manual . The art monuments of Austria: Tyrol. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-7031-0488-0 , p. 299.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Fraction of the community Haiming (Hrsg.): Ochsengarten in Tirol (The parish church to U. lb. Frau Mariä Visitation in Ochsengarten) . Pircher GmbH printing company.
Web links
Coordinates: 47 ° 13 ′ 43.8 ″ N , 10 ° 56 ′ 25.7 ″ E