Straßwalchen parish church
The Roman Catholic parish church of Straßwalchen dominates a steep hill in the market town of Straßwalchen in the Salzburg-Umgebung district in the state of Salzburg . The parish church consecrated to St. Martin of Tours belongs to the deanery Köstendorf in the Archdiocese of Salzburg . The church is a listed building .
history
In 799 a church was mentioned in a document. In 1101 a parish was mentioned in a document. In documents, a consecration was mentioned in 1408, a choir consecration in 1429, and a church consecration in 1444. The aisles were added from 1731 to 1733. The church was incorporated into Mondsee Monastery until 1784 . In 1939/1940 there was a restoration. From 1967 to 1970 the church was restored outside and in 1979 inside.
architecture
The late Gothic hall church with a south tower was extended to a staggered church with baroque side aisles. The church is surrounded by a walled cemetery with parish wings.
The church shows itself as a stone-faced conglomerate block construction. Nave and choir under a crooked roof . The western front has two buttresses. The long sides have rectangular windows. The Gothic exterior structure and the Gothic windows have been preserved above the side nave vaults. The side portals were given modern porches. The choir is divided into a grid with a coffin cornice, round bars and eaves. At the end of the choir is a pointed arched, two-lane tracery window. In the southern corner of the choir is the 48-meter-high, massive Gothic tower, divided into four floors with coffin cornices, the top floor with baroque acoustic windows was documented in 1709 and leads into an octagonal tower and wears an onion helmet. To the south of the choir, adjoining the tower, is the two-storey sacristy and oratory extension from 1692. At the apex of the choir is a crucifix from the 19th century.
The late Gothic central nave around 1444 merges into the choir, which is equally wide and high and slightly shifted to the north, around 1429. The central nave has a net rib vault over a yoke-forming wall pillar structure with round bar templates. The four-bay nave has low arched arcades to the side aisles added in 1731/1733. The side aisles have groin vaults on belts and pilasters. The west gallery was built in 1974. The two-bay choir has a five-eighth end , a profiled shoulder arch portal with a baroque door with Gothic fittings leads into the star-vaulted tower hall. There is an oratory grille above the sacristy portal. The sacristy and the oratory are vaulted with ribs.
The north wall of the choir shows a late Gothic mural painting from 1479 and shows a radiant wreath Madonna and two women in a housing with tracery arches and a half-figure representation of the Trinity in three people. The tendril painting in the choir vault mentions 1522.
Furnishing
The high altar is an early work by Meinrad Guggenbichler documented in 1675 with the carpenter Matthias Steinle. The altar was deposited with the end of the 19th century until 1918 and was restored in 1939. The high altar has a black and gold frame. The main floor has spiral column flanks, wing extensions and an entablature end. The excerpt from the Adikula shows the Baroque altar leaf division of the mantle of St. Martin by Louis Hofbauer (1919). The high altar bears the side figures Margarethe and Barbara and in the top the statue Leonhard which does not belong to it and to the side Rupert and Virgil and above Michael. The high altar has a free-standing canteen with a Gothic core and a tabernacle structure in the Rococo style.
The side altars around 1732 were probably built by Paul Mödlhamer in black and gold as a column portal type with volute extensions. The left side altar shows the altar sheet of grace picture Maria Dorfen from the branch church Irrsdorf and the extract picture Holy Family and bears the side figures of John the Baptist and Antonius of Padua. The right side altar carries a crucifixion group with a crucifix, Mary, Johannes Evangelist and Maria Magdalena and on a pedestal extended by a tabernacle the side figures Bernhard and Francis of Assisi and the excerpt figure God the Father.
The polygonal pulpit from 1680 was created by the sculptor Wolf Weißenkirchner with statuettes of the evangelists and a statue of Salvator; the pulpit was modified with additions in the 19th century. There are late baroque console figures Katharina and Nikolaus, documented by Paul Mödlhammer (1742), and the figures Florian, Georg, Sebastian, probably created at the same time. A late Gothic Pietà from the second half of the 15th century and a Man of Sorrows from the 18th century are in custody.
There is a copy of a carved high relief Lamentation of Christ , the original from around 1520 from the circle of Master IP is in the Salzburg Cathedral Museum . The late Gothic polygonal font made of red marble has a baroque hood. The popular Baroque Stations of the Cross were made in 1732. The cheeks of the rococo style chairs are from 1765.
The organ was built by Johann Nepomuk Mauracher (1872).
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Salzburg 1986 . Straßwalchen, Parish Church of St. Martin, with floor plan, Pfarrhof, pp. 410–412.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 58 ′ 48 ″ N , 13 ° 15 ′ 21.7 ″ E