Siezenheim parish church
The Roman Catholic parish church Siezenheim for the birth of Our Lady is located in the municipality of Wals-Siezenheim near Salzburg . The patronage festival is celebrated on September 8th, the birth of the Virgin Mary . It was built from 1500 to 1506, by Bishop on April 15, 1506 Nicholas Kaps consecrated and built in 1735 the still existing church tower.
Parish history
Siezenheim was, as can be deduced from grave goods, settled around 500 AD by Germanic tribes ( Ostrogoths , Bavarians ), who obviously adhered to the Germanic belief in gods. The eponymous clan were the Sizo or Suozzi . While other places in the area are mentioned very early because of donations to the Salzburg church, Siezenheim is not mentioned in the " Notitia Arnonis " from 788/790. In 927 we find the first mention Siezenheims, since the deacon to Archbishop Reginold Odalbert of Salzburg his property in Fridolfing against Hube in Suozinheim and another at Eitelberg in Lamprechtshausen eintauscht.
The oldest Christian cultural monument in the church is a Romanesque stone cross with a stylized representation of the crucified, which can now be viewed in the entrance area of the Siezenheim parish church. The local writer Franz Müller dated the cross made of conglomerate stone to the year of the Hungarian invasions around 926.
Although these and other documents can prove that the Salzburg church in Siezenheim had possessions, there is no mention of pastoral care of the population, possibly because this was done from Wals or directly by the cathedral clergy. Archbishop Konrad is considered to be the founder of the parish of Siezenheim , who in 1122 also transferred parish rights to the Salzburg cathedral monastery in Siezenheim. It can be assumed that a church already existed or was even expanded at this time, but this is not structurally secured. At that time, the Siezenheim parish also included the areas of Liefering , Maxglan and Wals.
The first historically verifiable pastor of Siezenheim is Meinhalmus, who was first mentioned in 1281 as a witness in notarial documents; this year is now considered the official foundation of a parish. In 1340 the papal confirmation of Pope Benedict XII takes place. from Avignon the incorporation (incorporation) of the parish of Siezenheim by the Salzburg cathedral chapter . This officially confirmed a condition that had existed since 200.
In 1394 a new church was built due to a fire, which was consecrated on May 6, 1397 by the auxiliary bishop Leonhard. Pope Boniface IX awarded the newly consecrated Church of Our Lady in Suczenhaym an indulgence of 100 days on October 18, 1398 . On February 9, 1451, Cardinal Nikolaus granted the Siezenheim Church an indulgence of 100 days for further church festivals, emphasizing again that the parish was incorporated into the canteen of the cathedral chapter, which had to provide the Siezenheim vicar with an appropriate salary.
In 1499, the Siezenheim church was to be expanded and reconsidered; before this could be tackled, a fire in 1500 destroyed the church. Here, too, an attempt was made to incite the population's willingness to donate by granting indulgences. After legal disputes with Nonnberg Monastery , which was contractually obliged to assume the costs, a late Gothic church building was erected within four years and consecrated on April 14, 1506 by Auxiliary Bishop Nikolaus Kaps.
Efforts to build a high church tower go back to 1580. For financial reasons and because a pointed tower would attract lightning, the cathedral chapter left the building of the tower to the Siezenheimers according to "their sack"; part of the costs had to be borrowed from the apparently better endowed branch church in Gois . In March 1734 there was a fire in the roof and the church tower, so that a new tower was necessary. In 1751 a new bell was installed, which was the largest bell in the Siezenheim bell tower until it was delivered for war purposes in 1916.
Building description
The church, visible from afar, is surrounded by a cemetery, which is characterized by stylish graves. The exterior of the late Gothic church from 1506 was only changed by the construction of the tower in 1735. The oldest saint figure in the church is a Gothic statue of the Virgin Mary from 1480. The preserved frescoes from the 15th and 17th centuries are remarkable. a. with the adoration of the kings , an apostle or wafer mill and a representation of Christophorus . The late Gothic baptismal font dates from 1515, the altar leaves were made in 1677 by Johann Franz Pereth (1622–1678), Augsburg citizen and member of the Augsburg painters' guild. The main altar depicts Mary as Queen of Heaven. On the left side altar the decapitation of Saint Catherine is depicted, on the right one can see the shooting scene of Saint Sebastian . The wrought iron grille that closes the church interior dates from 1694.
organ
The organ in the parish church of Siezenheim was manufactured by Albert Mauracher in 1905 and has a pneumatic action , 12 registers , two manuals and a pedal . In 1998 a renovation was carried out by master organ builder Pieringer (Haag / Lower Austria).
Disposition
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Coupling: Manual II-I, sub-octave coupler II-I, super-octave coupler II, pedal IP and II-P. Playing aids: Pleno and three fixed combinations
Remarkable
From 1764 until his death, Johann Georg Kajetan Egedacher (1711–1770) was pastor in Siezenheim. Like everyone from the organ building dynasty of the same name , he had initially worked as an organ builder. Apparently he was a close friend of Leopold Mozart , who learned of the death of Johann Georg Kajetan Egedacher on the first trip he took with his son Wolfgang Amadé to Italy. In a letter to his wife Anna Maria , he then suspects that Pastor Egedacher must have died of dropsy and fire . Leopold Mozart went on to say: I regret him, he was an honest man and an old, well-known and good friend of mine .
Picture gallery
Parish church Siezenheim: main altar
Siezenheim parish church: St. Catherine altar
Siezenheim parish church: Sebastian altar
Wrought iron barriers in the Siezenheim parish church
Ludwig Viktor's grave .
literature
- Austrian Art Topography 11 : The monuments of the political district of Salzburg; Volume 2: Salzburg judicial district (ÖKT 11), ed. from the Art History Institute of the kk Central Commission for Monument Preservation, Vienna 1916.
- Bartholomäus Reischl: Wals-Siezenheim time travel. 2005, Wals-Siezenheim community.
- Gerhard Walterskirchen: Organs and Organ Builders in Salzburg from the Middle Ages to the Present . Contributions to 700 years of organ building in the city of Salzburg. Dissertation University of Salzburg 1982.
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Personnel of the world and religious clergy of the Archdiocese of Salzburg for 1957 ( Schematismus 1957), ed. from the Archbishop's Office in Salzburg 1957, p. 174.
- ↑ 1753–1764 he was a clergyman in Mariapfarr . [1] List of pastors from Mariapfarr.
- ↑ In 1720 he was involved in building the organ in Kuchl . In: Joseph Dürlinger: Historical-statistical handbook of the Archdiocese of Salzburg in its current limits . First volume: Ruraldecanate des Flachlandes , Salzburg 1862, p. 526. Quoted from: Gerhard Walterskirchen: Orgeln and Organ Builders in Salzburg from the Middle Ages to the Present . Contributions to 700 years of organ building in the city of Salzburg. Dissertation University of Salzburg 1982, p. 90.
- ^ [2] Leopold Mozart's letter of November 17, 1770 from Milan to his wife in Salzburg (accessed April 5, 2014).
Web links
- Organ of the parish church Siezenheim , kirchen.net
- Atonement crosses in Siezenheim , suehnekreuz.de
- Siezenheim parish , www.pfarre-siezenheim.at
Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 39.6 ″ N , 12 ° 59 ′ 13.5 ″ E