Rattenberg Parish Church
The Roman Catholic parish church Rattenberg is located in the town of Rattenberg in the district of Kufstein in the state of Tyrol . The parish church of St. Virgil belongs to the deanery of Reith im Alpbachtal of the Archdiocese of Salzburg . The church and the former cemetery are under monument protection .
history
A church was mentioned in a document in 1301. In 1443 there was a church fire. From 1473 to 1506 there was an extensive new building with Christian Nickinger and Jörg Steyrer. The sacristy was built between 1507 and 1512 with Jörg Steyrer. Around 1730 the church was redesigned in baroque style. The church was elevated to a parish church in 1786.
architecture
- Church exterior
The church rises above the southern row of houses in the town under the castle hill and can be reached via two covered staircases in the south and one staircase in the east. The Gothic church building of the Hagauer Bauhütte has a north nave (citizen ship) and a south aisle (miner's ship) and a main choir and a side choir. The west and north walls of the church and the north tower were built from 1443 and older with quarry stone masonry and plastered. The south aisle wall and the north sacristy were built with unplastered Kramsacher marble blocks after 1473. The Gothic north tower attached to the main choir has round-arched chamfered twin sound windows and a pointed gable helmet. To the west of the tower by the main choir is the Gothic two-storey sacristy. To the west of it on the main nave there is an elongated baroque two-storey extension. The main choir shows former three-lane windows, the side choir shows narrow, high tracery windows with grooved walls. On the choirs and on the south aisle there are bases with round bar and sill cornices, and on the south wall there are several kinks because of the rising terrain of the castle hill. The facade shows triangular pilaster strips between the windows. On the side choir, Michael Auer is named as the financial builder with an inscription, and the year 1473 is given on the southern side aisle wall. The southern fluted Gothic portals are rounded to the west and pointed arch to the east, the northern rectangular portal has flutes with bars. On the south wall are former three-lane pointed arch windows.
- Church interior
The two-aisled, four-bay nave with a wider main nave and a narrower aisle with three round pillars set far apart creates a uniform spatial impression. The baroque stucco covers the former Gothic vaults, baroque pilasters with pieces of entablature cover the Gothic wall pillars, the Gothic wall templates with services are visible in the choirs. The baroque west gallery stands on marble and wooden columns. The choir arch pillars are fluted, the main choir pillars with a pear stick. The two-bay choirs close with three-eighths and are mutually connected with a wide pointed arch opening. The northern Gothic rectangular portal shows crossings. The rich foliage and bandwork of the stucco in the vaults, with busts and garlands holding putti over the windows, with Corinthian capitals on the round pillars, were created by the plasterers Anton Gigl , Augustin Gigl and Engelmund Lambs (1733).
The ceiling painting in the choirs with the transfiguration of Christ and the four church fathers in the main choir and Immaculata as Maria vom Siege in the side choir was created by Simon Benedict Faistenberger (1729).
Furnishing
In the 18th century the church was Baroque and so took its present form. The Anna altar with richly decorated figures in the southern choir is by the Mondsee carver Meinrad Guggenbichler , the vault frescos are attributed to Simon Benedikt Faistenberger and Matthäus Günther . The crucifixion group between the two choir arches was created in 1829 by Franz Serafikus Nißl . The Notburga Chapel was only built in the 1980s and houses a bust of Saint Notburga . The church also has a chapel commemorating the war dead and a Marian grotto .
organ
The organ was built in 1986 by the Reinisch-Pirchner organ building company. The instrument has 23 registers on two manuals and a pedal .
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literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Tirol 1980 . Rattenberg, Kufstein district, parish church St. Virgil, with floor plan, pp. 629–630.
- Reinhard Weidl: The churches of Rattenberg. Christian Art Centers in Austria, No. 564, Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 2014 ( online )
Web links
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 47 ° 26 ′ 21 ″ N , 11 ° 53 ′ 40 ″ E