Pfaffenhofen parish church (Tyrol)
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The Pfaffenhofen parish church stands on the village square in the municipality of Pfaffenhofen in the Innsbruck-Land district in the state of Tyrol . The Roman Catholic parish church , consecrated on the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary , belongs to the Telfs deanery of the Innsbruck diocese . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
location
The church, surrounded by a cemetery, stands at the upper western end of the village above an early Christian church and to the north of a row of graves from the 7th and 8th centuries that was discovered in 1950.
history
- Parish history
In the 7th and 8th centuries, a large parish was assumed to have its own church. The seat of the parish was moved to Flaurling around 1300 . 1785 Expositur, in 1951 a new parish was founded.
- Building history
An early Christian predecessor church was archaeologically excavated in 1961. The remains show an off-axis floor plan of a church built in the 5th and 6th centuries with a free-standing semicircular priest's bench and an axially upstream step to a cathedra that is no longer in existence. Later a choir screen wall and a reliquary grave were built.
Around 700 a second church was built as a hall church with an east apse, in the nave there were two graves around 800. One grave was particularly richly decorated, the finds are in the Tyrolean State Museum .
Today's third church building was initially a Gothic church, it was baroque and regothic. The nave was consecrated in 1310 and the Gothic choir in 1414. In 1734 the church was probably extended. Major repairs were carried out around 1760/1780. and conversions. From 1860 the church was redesigned in a neo-Gothic style according to the plans of the architects August Essenwein and Josef Vonstadl and consecrated in 1863.
From 1958 to 1961 there was a restoration.
architecture
- Church exterior
The exterior of the church was changed in a neo-Gothic style in 1860 by removing the plaster, with the exception of the west facade and the sacristy. The Gothic structure with triangular pilaster strips and a circumferential coffin cornice on the nave and choir has been preserved. The two later added west bays are without pilaster strips and have shorter windows, the two grooved pointed arch portals from the old building were probably transferred, the coffin cornice was extended and cranked over at right angles. The windows are ogival, an east choir window has three-pass tracery. The steep facade gable of the western front is stepped at the beginning. To the south of the choir is the two-thirds integrated square tower with a very slender, high pointed helmet. The clock and bell storey is set off by a cornice, the coupled sound windows and the gable windows are pointed arches. The sacristy is in the corner between the tower and the choir.
A fresco of the Resurrection of Christ and the Last Judgment by Leopold Puellacher (1826) fills the entire south facade of the sacristy. The window above the west portal shows a mosaic Immaculata around 1880. A war memorial was attached to the south portal around 1925 with the sculptor Andreas Einberger .
- Church interior
The five-bay long house has two slightly shorter widening west bays, in the first bay with a gallery on two thin round columns. The nave walls are structured with pilasters, and the arched needle cap barrel of the vault is structured with belt arches. The choir is shifted from the central axis to the north.
Furnishing
The Baroque high altar was built in 1960/1961 by the Elbigenalp carving school with Franz Öfner, A. Dobler and H. Schmidt. In the center it bears a Madonna in a radiant nimbus with small rocaille cartouches with 15 rosary pictures by Josef Anton Zoller (1776).
The simple neo-Gothic organ was built by Franz Weber around 1860/1863 .
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Tirol 1980 . Pfaffenhofen, Parish Church of the Assumption, Chapel of the Dead in the northwest corner of the cemetery. Pp. 599-600.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 17 ′ 56.9 " N , 11 ° 4 ′ 58.4" E