Parish church Scheffau am Wilden Kaiser
The parish church Scheffau stands in the middle of the village in the municipality of Scheffau am Wilden Kaiser in the Kufstein district in the state of Tyrol . The Roman Catholic parish church , consecrated to St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist , belongs to the Deanery of Kufstein of the Archdiocese of Salzburg . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
A church was mentioned in documents in 1438. The current church was built in 1755/1756 according to the plans of the architect Franz Pock. The church was elevated to a parish church in 1891.
architecture
The baroque church is surrounded by a cemetery.
The outside of the church shows a nave structured with pilaster strips, the west front with a gable has bell-arched windows. The west portal made of marble with a segmented gable mentions 1756- The round closing choir has a two-storey sacristy annex on the south side, the Gothic tower stands in the north, it has pointed arched sound openings, over it round arched double windows, it wears a pointed gable helmet with the year 1569.
The interior of the church shows a three-bay nave with barrel vaults with stitch caps on cranked beams on wall pillars with pilasters and arched windows. The west gallery is two-story. The retracted triumphal arch is rounded. The one-bay choir under a barrel vault with stitch caps has a semicircle and side galleries. In the north wall there is a Gothic portal to the tower ground floor.
The ceiling paintings were created by the painter Matthias Kirchner in 1798, renovated in 1967, in the choir the beheading of Johannes, Johannes rebukes Herod and Herodias, in the choir baffles Stefan and Laurentius, in the nave baptism of Christ, music-making angels, birth of Johannes, in the side panels the apostle's call John the Evangelist and James, the torture of John the Evangelist in a boiling oil kettle, John the Evangelist with the vision of the chaining of the devil and the legendary self-burial of John the Evangelist. The stained glass is from 1918.
Furnishing
The high altar from the third quarter of the 18th century shows the altarpiece of the two hll. Johannes vom Malter Johannes Gratzer 1868, he carries the statues Margaretha and Dorothea above the sacrificial passage portals and on the upper floor the figure group Coronation of Mary and the Four Fathers of the Church.
In the wall niches a late Gothic Madonna around 1460, the baroque figure of Christ at the column of torture, Christ in rest, Sebastian, female saints, Notburga.
The holy grave from 1752 was supplemented by mechanically movable representations in the 19th century. A gothic lecture cross made of gilded copper from the end of the 14th century is in safekeeping.
Joachim Michael Reis names a bell in 1755.
literature
- Scheffau am Wilden Kaiser, parish church St. Johannes d. T .. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Tirol 1980 . P. 686.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 31 '43.3 " N , 12 ° 14' 58.8" E