Parish Church of Sölden

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View from the north
Ceiling fresco Adoration of the Shepherds by Josef Anton Puellacher (1779)

The Roman Catholic parish church of Sölden is located in Rettenbach in the municipality of Sölden in the Ötztal in Tyrol . The parish church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary belongs to the deanery Silz in the diocese of Innsbruck . The church is a listed building .

history

A church was mentioned in a document in 1288. In 1521, a renovation was carried out by Jakob von Tarrenz . Another renovation and expansion was carried out by Gallus Gratl in 1752. The late Gothic church was expanded in baroque style. In 1975 there was an extension with a staircase to the gallery.

architecture

The four-bay, barrel-vaulted nave with a two-bay choir of the same width with a three-eighth closure has arched windows. The baroque ceiling and wall painting by Josef Anton Puellacher is remarkable .

Furnishing

The Baroque altar has carved figures from 1753 to 1758 by Anton Praxmarer and an altarpiece Pietà by Johann Georg Dominikus Grasmair . The pulpit with figures of the four evangelists from the same period comes from Joseph Götsch . The people's altar by Ilse Glaninger-Balzar is from 1978 .

The organ is from 1750.

Bells

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The ringing of the parish church of Sölden includes five bells, of which bells 1, 2, 4 and 5 were cast in 1950 in the Grassmayr bell foundry in Innsbruck. Bell 3 is historic and was cast by HC and Christoph Löffler in Innsbruck in 1590 .

The tuning of the bells is: c sharp 1 e 1 g sharp 1 h 1 c sharp 2

The full bell can only be heard on high holidays.

graveyard

The church is surrounded by a cemetery, with a rectangular death chapel with a steep gable roof to the south, which was built in the core in the 16th century. In the cemetery there are remarkable forged iron grave crosses from the 18th and 19th centuries. In 1969, with the architect Hans Loch , the cemetery in the steep terrain was extended by a narrow, lower level, where the war memorial was integrated as a cantilever with a view of the valley in the form of a cross. When the cemetery was too small again in 2005, the architect Raimund Rainer was able to convince with a further extension to the church, where, after demolishing a residential building, a cemetery was expanded over several levels, whereby a path was created in the steep terrain with an overhanging outer wall below and a cemetery room above . With a second plan by Rainer, in addition to the steep Rettenbach, a forecourt and a flight of stairs for the church and local school were created, with a hydroelectric power station and a transformer station being installed.

literature

  • The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Tirol 1980 . Soelden. Parish church Mariae Heimsuchung, in Sölden-Rettenbach, pp. 742–743.

Web links

Commons : Mariä Visitation (Sölden)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Plenary of the Bells 3: 44min on YouTube by Orgelix , May 11, 2010
  2. ^ Dehio Tirol 1980
  3. ^ Friedrich Achleitner : Austrian Architecture of the 20th Century, Volume 1, 1980, page 339
  4. ↑ Kulturraum Tirol Raimund Rainer: Cemetery expansion Sölden (from 2005), accessed on May 26, 2011

Coordinates: 46 ° 58 ′ 3.7 ″  N , 11 ° 0 ′ 25.7 ″  E