Parish Church of Perdonig

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Parish Church Perdonig, south view
Parish Church Perdonig, west view

The parish church of St. Vigilius and Ulrich is located in the Eppan fraction of Perdonig in South Tyrol .

history

The old Vigilius Church

The old St. Vigilius Church was located high above Appiano on a hilltop, the Vigilius Hill. According to legend, it was built by Saint Vigilius († 400 AD) himself over a pagan sanctuary. The St. Vigilius Church was the baptistery in this area before the parishes were established around 1100/50. This place was far enough away from the masses of migrant peoples below and at the same time fairly well protected by nature. There is evidence of an active priest here at least since the 13th century.

Relic of St. Vigilius

The church was first mentioned in a document as "sanctus Vigilius supra Pradonie" in 1315 . At that time, the Bishop of Trento had the Lords of Boimont summoned to Trento and accused them of neglecting the St. Vigilius Church for a long time and of not maintaining a priest there. The Boimonters apparently moved the chaplain from Perdonig to St. Justina around 1300. The bishop would not tolerate this neglect of the St. Vigilius Church and the farmers of Perdonig. He instructed the Boimontern to reinstate a chaplain up there and to keep him nowhere else without the permission of the parish vicar of St. Pauls . To have mass read: Before 1800 it was known that the chaplain lived at the St. Justina Church, but went up to Perdonig every other Sunday to see St. Read mass. So an agreement had been reached. The St. Vigilius Church was used until around 1799 before the new church was built further down the valley in Perdonig. The church was partly demolished and soon fell into disrepair. In 1904 the tower was also blown up, which also caused the vault to collapse, and its stones were used for the construction of the Wieserstadel, which, however, burned down to the foundation walls two years later. This indicates that this secluded church on the Vigilius hill above Perdonig was once very important.

New construction and renovation

The new church was built from 1795 to 1799 by Hieronymus von Vinschger at his own expense and with the free help of the Perdonigers on a plot of land made available free of charge by the Wieserbauer in Perdonig. It was inaugurated on December 9, 1799.

At the beginning of the 1990s, the church and Widum were in such poor condition that renovation and expansion were necessary. The project was worked out by the architects Rainer Kainraith and Peter Eisenzüge. Work began in January 1992. While the outside facades of the church remained almost unchanged, the church interior was expanded to the east. On the apex of the church, directly above the new altar, a triangular skylight was created, which should convey the closeness to God's nature and the beech forest typical here in the play of colors of the seasons. The newly designed parish church was inaugurated on its patronage on June 26, 1994 by Diocesan Bishop Wilhelm Egger .

Furnishing

The church was furnished by the altar builder Anton Perathoner from Ortisei in Val Gardena .

The old neo-Romanesque high altar includes two wooden sculptures, St. Anne and St. Joseph . They frame the altarpiece (oil on linen) from the middle of the 17th century, on which the two church patrons, Saint Vigilius as Bishop of Trient with the wooden shoe and Ulrich as Bishop of Augsburg with the fish are depicted. The old St. Vigilius Church, from which the altarpiece was transferred, can be seen between the two bishops. Above this scene, the crowned Mary hovers with the baby Jesus surrounded by the cherubim and seraphine .

The round arch of the altarpiece is framed by wooden reliefs of angels and archangels. The antependium was particularly beautifully designed with half-sculptures, in the middle there is a richly decorated golden cross and on the left and right side you can see scrolls with the inscription: et verbum caro factum est et habitavit in nobis (= the word is meat and has lived among us, Joh 1,14  EU ).

The oldest part of this church is a small stone figure of Saint Vigilius, which is located on the right above the old portal. This stone figure dates from the 14th century and was moved from the old church to the new one around 1400 , along with two Gothic wooden figures of Saints Vigilius and Nicholas.

Bells

The church has a tower with three bells . The largest of the three dates from 1545, making it the oldest. According to legend, this bell is said to have been moved from the Georgskirche (Georgsturm, today ruin) in Oberplanitzing to the new Perdoniger church in the course of the Josephine church dissolution . The two smaller bells date from 1929, they were cast in the workshop of Luigi Colbacchini and sons in Trento.

The ringing of Perdonig with its metallic sound has become a rarity, as this church is the only parish church in Überetsch in which the bells are still rung by hand without any technical assistance. Many of the approx. 200 residents have already rung the bell themselves.

organ

The organ was purchased in 1986; previously a harmonium was used to accompany the liturgical chants. The organ was built by the Späth company and is said to be the only one of its kind in Italy. It has five registers :

Manual C–
Covered 8 ′
Principal 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Octave 2 ′
Pedal C–
Subbass 16 ′

literature

  • Lorenzo Dal Ri [and a.]: Il colle di San Vigilio a Predonico . In: Landesdenkmalamt Bozen (Ed.): Preservation of monuments in South Tyrol 1989/90 . Athesia, Bozen 1995, ISBN 88-7014-794-0 , pp. 37-43.
  • Hannes Obermair : Bozen South - Bolzano North. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 1 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2005, ISBN 88-901870-0-X .

Web links

Commons : St. Vigilius and Ulrich (Perdonig)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Parishes of the diocese of Brixen-Bozen
  2. ^ Hannes Obermair: Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 1 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2005, ISBN 88-901870-0-X , p. 185-186, No. 279 .

Coordinates: 46 ° 29 ′ 52.8 "  N , 11 ° 13 ′ 44.6"  E