Parish church St. Anton am Arlberg

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Façade Dorfstrasse (north façade) with the baroque onion dome and new nave

The parish church of St. Anton am Arlberg , sometimes also known as Mariahilf , in honor of the Holy Virgin, St. Francis and St. Antonius, is the Catholic parish church of St. Anton am Arlberg in Tyrol. The baroque church with significant addition by Clemens Holzmeister belongs to the Deanery of Zams of the Diocese of Innsbruck . Parish patron is Anthony of Padua .

history

Building history

The much older churches in the Arlberg are the Jakobuskirche (mentioned in 1275), the mother parish on the Arlberg, and the church at Christophorushospitz (built in 1386). The parish on Perg tried to get its own church until the 1690s. The new church was opened on September 11, 1698 in honor of St. Virgin (hence also called Mariahilf Church), St. Francis of Assisi and St. Consecrated to Anthony of Padua .

It was carried out by the master builder Keil from Umhausen in the Ötztal . The church received a tower, with a round-arched sound window in the substructure , above it with an octagonal structure, and a clapboard-covered onion dome . The equipment of the St. Antoner church was rather modest at the time, and it should have remained so, the construction of the church in St. Jakob in 1773 required considerable financial resources.

In 1840 the first major renovation took place, the church received two large paintings by the Munich artist Johann Kasper . With the construction of the Arlbergbahn between 1880 and 1884, the church received considerable donations from the building contractors working here. The church received a new bell , consisting of four bells, of which only one has survived.

After the old church had become much too small, after many years of preparation the church was enlarged in 1932 according to plans by the architect Clemens Holzmeister . It was expanded with a second, lower tower to form an idiosyncratic twin tower complex, and the old nave became the choir . The church renovation took six months and the following year the enlarged church was consecrated. The old equipment was partly taken over. In 1948 three new bells were added to the peal. In 1951 Hans Andre from Innsbruck created the ceiling painting, in 1956 Hans Buchgschwenter created the Antonius main altar. In 1959 the church got another bell.

Today the church is completely under monument protection .

Parish history

Until the beginning of tourism, St. Anton was only a subsidiary of the municipality and was subordinate to the St. Jakober parish and this to the diocese of Bressanone , after the end of the monarchy from 1921 to the Apostolic Administration Innsbruck-Feldkirch (raised to diocese in 1964, since 1968 only Innsbruck) . It was not until November 1, 1947 that the St. Anton chaplain was elevated to a parish . A separate cemetery had to be created for this purpose; before it was buried in St. Jakob. The St. Anton cemetery - now also a listed building - was laid out in 1952 on the Planie.

Since September 2008, the restructuring of the pastoral care of the entire diocese, St. Anton has belonged to the pastoral care area Oberes Stanzertal (SESOS), before that, from 1983-2008 Bruno Decristoforo was pastor of St. Anton. Currently pastor and pastoral care room manager Dr. Augustin Kouanvih, who has his parish office here. It is subordinate to the Deanery of Zams of the Diocese of Innsbruck .

The parish of St. Anton also includes the Hospitz chapel in St. Christoph , a branch church and former chaplain.

Building description

The architecture critic Friedrich Achleitner describes the church as follows: "The most striking and most depicted is the St. Anton parish church, which was expanded and rebuilt by Clemens Holzmeister in 1932." From the old church, a main part of the nave remained as a choir and the baroque onion dome receive. Holzmeister added a new entrance area and created the main accent with the new “smaller tower, which he did not match the old one, which gave this building a new, strong life. This draft is an early example of a typological preservation of monuments, whereby new elements make the old ones speak. "

The modern ceiling painting (1951) by Hans Andre , the richly decorated glass windows, the main altar with scenes from the life of St. Anthony (1956), relief friezes and carved figures in the apse (1956) and the Christmas crib (1957), all by Hans Buchgschwenter , complement the modern ensemble. The interior of the old church was partly taken over, there is also a winged altar from the 14th century.

Peal

The bell has the disposition : f′-as′-c ″ -es ″ - (as ″). It comes completely, but over several generations, from the Grassmayr bell foundry in Innsbruck: the as ″ is the last of the bells from 1882, as ′, c ″, es ″ are from 1948, the f ′ was cast in 1959 in Feldkirch. This youngest bell hangs in the new tower, the older four-bell in the baroque tower.

Web links

Commons : Saint Anthony of Padua Church (Sankt Anton am Arlberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ Information according to Weblink Orgelix, on youtube.com

Coordinates: 47 ° 7 '53.4 "  N , 10 ° 16' 8.9"  E