Parish Church Tessenberg
The parish church Tessenberg stands in an exposed position above the village Tessenberg in the municipality of Heinfels in the Tyrolean district of Lienz . The Roman Catholic parish church of Sts. Johannes the Baptist and Johannes Evangelist belongs to the deanery Sillian in the diocese of Innsbruck . The church is a listed building .
history
The church was mentioned in a document in 1365 in connection with a fire. It was then rebuilt and redesigned in 1465/1470, and in 1471 the church was consecrated . In 1786 the church became a local chaplain and in 1891 a parish church . A sacristy was added around 1900.
architecture
The uniform late Gothic church building with a north tower is surrounded by a cemetery with a wall.
Church exterior
A retracted polygonal choir with simply stepped triangular buttresses adjoins the nave with simply stepped buttresses. The church under a steep gable roof has a cornice with a cove and stepped plinths on the buttresses and on the tower. The tower, on the north side of the choir, has coupled sound windows combined with a pointed arch and carries a pyramid roof. The triple-fluted pointed arch portal is framed in a square by a round bar. The sacristy is built south in the middle at the transition from the nave to the choir. The fresco St. Christophorus from the 15th century was covered by the sacristy and damaged after a window was broken.
Interior design
The single-nave, two-bay nave under a ribbed vault with square and round keystones has wall templates with circular services and capitals. The wooden gallery stands on pillars. The pointed triumphal arch is beveled on both sides. The retracted one-bay choir with a five-eighth end has a star rib vault with two keystones with recesses, resting on wall services with five-eighth cross-section or consoles. The sacrament niche still has the original grid. The door to the tower is ogival . The tracery windows are also pointed and in two parts.
The keystones are decorated with depictions of the head of Christ, John the Baptist and John the Evangelist. The tendril painting around the keystones and a coat of arms of the Counts of Görz on the triumphal arch were made around 1470. The dedicatory inscription with 1471 is on the left triumphal arch wall. Rupert (Ruprecht) Potsch made the wall paintings in the choir on the left with seven scenes from the life of John the Baptist and in the northeast slope with four scenes about John the Evangelist and six prophets in the stabbed caps. Furthermore, he painted a wall fresco in the nave as an altarpiece of the right side altar of the Holy. Korbinian and Candidus (1499) and above the fresco Crucifixion with Maria and Johannes (1499) and at the cafeteria the veil of Veronica. The apostle crosses, also painted, date from around 1470.
Furnishing
Josef Waßler rebuilt the Gothic high altar as a winged altar with a neo-Gothic shrine with a cross in it . It carries the late Gothic statues Anna selbdritt , Johannes the Baptist, Johannes Evangelist, which were made around 1510/1520 and come from the previous altar. The wings of the altar were created by Andreas Weißenbach in 1964. A carved bowl depicting John can be seen on the people's altar ; it is dated around 1510. The left side altar bears a figure of Mary and Child from the second half of the 17th century. In the nave there are statues of St. Joseph and Johannes Evangelist around 1680.
The organ was built in Mayer's workshop in 1871. The death bell, cast by Johann Graßmayr in 1774, has been preserved.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Tirol 1980 . Heinfels, parish church of St. John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, in Tessenberg, Bergfriedhof and Friedhofskapelle, pp. 333–334.
- Brigitte Ascherl, Parish Church of St. Johannes in Tessenberg with cemetery and chapel. In: Brigitte Ascherl (ed.), The art monuments of the political district of Lienz. Volume 2: Pustertal, Villgratental, Tiroler Gailtal (Horn 2007), 239–251.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Parish chronicle Tessenberg 1882–1971 (3 vol.)
Coordinates: 46 ° 45 ′ 17.3 " N , 12 ° 27 ′ 59.3" E