Parish church Seewalchen am Attersee

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South view of the parish church surrounded by a cemetery
The organ loft with the images of the apostles and the new organ

The Roman Catholic parish church Seewalchen am Attersee is located in the municipality of Seewalchen am Attersee in the Vöcklabruck district in Upper Austria . It is consecrated to St. James the Elder and belongs to the Schörfling Pastoral Care Room in the Schörfling Deanery . The listed church was built in the middle of the 15th century. It is surrounded by a cemetery with a protected cemetery ash on the east side.

history

The parish of Seewalchen am Attersee was a settlement in Roman times . It is possible that the Christian faith was represented there as early as the 3rd to 4th centuries AD .

The patronage of James the Elder suggests that a church was consecrated as early as the 9th or 10th century. 1135, the parish church was first mentioned in the St. James: In the year Bishop exchanged Reginbert of Passau with the Benedictine monks of the monastery Michaelbeuern the tithes this parish Sewalhin against two farms in German Bach at the Pielach . Pope Gregory IX In 1232 the abbey confirmed the ownership of this parish . In 1427 a church was consecrated in Seewalchen.

From 1439 to 1486 a new Gothic parish church was built, which was consecrated in 1476. In 1727 the church underwent a thorough renovation. In 1852 an extension was added between the south portal, vestibule and sacristy. In 1862 the spire and tower cross were renovated. In 1885 the parish church was restored in the neo-Gothic style. In 1899 the spire was renovated and replaced by a new four meter high pyramid.

In 1913, portraits of the twelve apostles were attached to the gallery . In the course of the war in 1944, the copper roof of the tower was removed and replaced by sheet iron . In 1954 the interior was restored, with two side altars (St. Scholastica and St. Benedict ) being purchased.

As early as 1970, the first plans for a reconstruction of the church were started under Pastor König. As a first step, the exterior facade was renovated in 1976.

In 1993 an architectural competition was carried out to expand the church. From 1998 to 2000 the parish church Seewalchen was expanded, rebuilt and completely renovated. On July 22, 2001, the consecration took place with a tower cross.

In 2012 the church received a new organ with 26 registers, which Orgelbau Pirchner manufactured in 2012 and which was consecrated on June 16, 2013.

Worth seeing

Choir with the late Gothic frescoes in the vault, which were uncovered in 1954

The single-nave three-bay nave and the choir are provided with a ribbed vault. In the choir vault there are late Gothic ornamental frescoes that were uncovered in 1954.

In the neo-Gothic high altar there are late-Gothic wooden figures from the years 1470–1480. The figures show Mary with child in the center, St. Margarethe and on the right St. Barbara .

Web links

Commons : Parish church Seewalchen am Attersee  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

source

  • Extract from the Seewalchner church chronicle

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Upper Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from June 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 28, 2013 (PDF).
  2. ^ Orgelbau Pirchner: The organ in the parish church Seewalchen am Attersee ; accessed on July 23, 2018
  3. ↑ Atterwiki: Chronik (Seewalchen): the last years ; accessed on July 23, 2018

Coordinates: 47 ° 57 '12.4 "  N , 13 ° 35' 8.2"  E