Parish Church of Tramin
The parish church of Tramin is dedicated to the martyrs Quiricus and Julitta .
history
The son of the Longobard Count Regino is said to have built a church in Tramin in the 9th century, to which he gave the relics of Saints Quiricus and Julitta. The Romanesque church construction goes back to the early 13th century. At the beginning of the 14th century, a church renovation began. The church with the surrounding cemetery was consecrated on June 20, 1400.
In 1787 the cemetery was moved to the southern town center near the St. Valentine's Church (first mentioned in 1276), which has served as a cemetery church ever since.
1909–1911 the parish church was rebuilt with the participation of the population. The 18 x 10 m nave with four side chapels was enlarged to approx. 24 x 20 m. From the old building only the Sebastianial tarpaulin and some fresco fragments remain.
Steeple
The 86 m high Gothic church tower was built in several construction phases. The poorly structured lower part probably goes back to around 1400. In March 1466, the Tramin community entrusted the master builder Hans Feur from Sterzing to raise it. He created the plan for the magnificent belfry and the bricked octagonal helmet. After Hans Feur's death in 1468, master Bartlmä and his colleague continued construction. The stonemason Peter Ursel was also involved in building the tower. Work on the tower was completed in 1492.
In 1702 the tower was struck by lightning and the damage was repaired the following year. In 1880/81 the tower was renovated by the Bolzano builder Albert Canal.
In the 20th century, the sandstone decorations were corroded by air pollution, so that a thorough renovation and restoration was decided in 1982, which took place from 1983 to 1986. The cost of over 724 million lire was covered 41 percent by donations from the citizens of Tramin, 23 percent by the municipal administration and 36 percent by the State Monuments Office and banks.
The Traminer Altar
The "Traminer Altar" is a work attributed to the Brixen sculptor Hans Klocker from the years 1485/1490, which was erected in the parish church of Traminer until 1845. Sold in the course of secularization , it ended up in the collection of Max Ainmiller and was acquired by the Bavarian National Museum in Munich around 1856/1876 .
The three-wing folding altar with a carved predella is made of spruce and Swiss stone pine and is colored and lavishly painted in gold. The adoration of the shepherds is shown in the company of ox and donkey and many angels. The two side wings show two saints with martyrs' crowns, on the left St. Catherine of Alexandria with wheel and sword.
The predella shows the Lamentation of Christ , the paintings on the two flanking folding panels show two bishops on a gold background , one with a church model, the second with the unusual attribute of a shoe or slipper.
literature
- Committee for the restoration of the parish tower of Tramin (ed.): The parish tower of Tramin . Tramin 1986.
- Karl Wolfsgruber : The churches of Tramin . Pluristamp, Bolzano 1992.
- Roland Zwerger: Sacred art and church history of Tramin . Pluristamp. Bolzano 1992.
- Organ Committee of the Parish of Tramin (Ed.): Festschrift for the conclusion of the restoration of the Karl Reinisch organ in the Parish Church of Tramin . Termeno 1997.
- Othmar Parteli: 100 years of the parish church of Tramin . Der Schlern , special edition October / November 2011. Athesia, Bozen 2011.
- Parish to the Hll. Quiricus and Julitta (Ed.): Tramin: Parish Church of St. Quiricus and Julitta (= Peda art guide; No. 947). Kunstverlag Peda, Passau 2015, ISBN 978-3-89643-947-5 .
Web links
- Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office
- Description on the official website of the Parish Church of Tramin
- Parish church in Tramin
Coordinates: 46 ° 20 ′ 30.7 ″ N , 11 ° 14 ′ 25.3 ″ E