Parish Church of Volders
The Roman Catholic parish church of Volders is in the center of Volders in Tyrol . It is consecrated to St. John the Baptist and belongs to the pastoral care room Fritzens - Volders - Wattens in the Schwaz deanery of the Innsbruck diocese . The church and the former cemetery surrounding it are under monument protection .
history
The exhibition Between the Rest of the Dead and Science - 3500 Years of Grave Manners in Volders confirmed the view taken by science that there had been an older church to the east. An originally secular building was later used for religious purposes.
During construction work in 2001, a 6th century cemetery was discovered in Augasse. Over 100 graves had been uncovered by mid-2002. It belonged to a settlement from late Roman times. The first documentary evidence of today's church comes from 1253, according to the results of architectural studies by the monument office, the building was erected in the 12th or 13th century. The document contains the following wording: Haec donatio est facte anno Dominio MCCLIII in villa Volers ante fores ecclesie (This donation was made in the year of the Lord in 1253 in the village of Volders at the gates of the church).
The importance of the church in Volders increased through donations and foundations, which increased the annual income. Heinrich von Rottenburg, for example, bequeathed 50 pounds of Bernese money to the church in his will. The Rottenburg is preserved as a ruin above Redwood.
In order to secure the salvation of his soul and that of his ancestors, the Speiser von Friedberg donated an acre in Volders to the Church of St. John in 1370, right by the church. The respective church provost was obliged to buy two candles as eternal light for the St. Nicholas altar. The provost was elected from among the citizens of the community and was responsible for the administration of the church's property. This cemetery, which seems to have been occupied since the 6th century, is located on a late Roman settlement. It seems that - as can also be shown by other examples - the originally secular late Roman building has recently served religious purposes, i.e. as a church. This scientific finding so far developed by the excavation director Alexander Zanesco would now conclusively prove the oral tradition and also the opinion represented by research that today's Volderer church was not the first church, but that there was an older church further east. Hall's city architect, Hans Sewer, began building the new Gothic church in 1437. He died in 1464 and after that Hans Pipfel or Master Peter Lang probably continued the building work. In the period from 1495 to 1500, a master Thomas, his surname is not known, completed the masonry of the tower and nave. The master carpenter Zacharias Braun built the roof structure until 1512.
The journeyman priest of Kolsass had the obligation to read a mass every day in 1466. Wealthy nobles from the area around Volders donated and donated generously in order to purchase good interior fittings. Only the relief depicting the birth of Christ, made by an unknown master from Plustertal, remains of this Gothic interior.
For the two places Volders and Wattens a joint curate was appointed in 1560 , who was responsible for keeping the register books . A separate curate was appointed for Volders in 1629, the Sprengel comprised the places Volders, Groß- and Kleinvolderberg and until 1966 Volderwald. The Gothic ribs of the vaults were cut off around the middle of the 19th century. After that, the ceiling was redecorated and painted in the Nazarene style in line with contemporary tastes. The confessionals and the organ gallery were renewed in 1869 by order of the curate Laimgruber, who also had a new high altar erected in 1884.
The nave was extended to the west from 1962 to 1965 according to plans by Clemens Holzmeister , and the interior was refurbished in a new Gothic style. The building was extensively renovated in 1982. The floor had to be renewed in 2009, the chancel was redesigned and the interior was painted.
description
The three-bay late Gothic nave is connected to a two-bay, retracted choir with a three-sided choir closure in the east, and the modern extension to the west. The choir is structured by a coffin cornice , triangular pilaster strips and a painted tracery frieze. The extension is characterized by a pitched roof that extends almost to the floor, the oversized west facade is structured by arched windows and colorfully glazed rectangular windows. The tower built on to the north of the choir is closed off with a gabled spire . The interior is simply designed. There is a double gallery in the western extension. In the choir, which is separated from the nave by a pointed triumphal arch , the semicircular Gothic services have been partially preserved. The ceiling frescoes were created by Joseph Leopold Strickner and Leopold Puellacher in 1824 and renewed by Andrä Leitl in 1866. During the renovation in 1923, Toni Kirchmayr painted new frescoes in a baroque style.
During the renovation in 2009, Romanesque and early Gothic wall paintings were uncovered on the north wall of the choir . The upper images in the early Gothic linear style , created around 1350, show scenes of the Passion , in the lower area five heads of saints from around 1280 have been preserved, which can still be attributed to the Romanesque. In the choir hangs the former high altar painting by Josef Schöpf , created in 1798 , which shows the adoration of the Madonna and Child by the two saints Johannes as well as hll. Depicting Dominic and Catherine of Siena . The crucifix hanging from the triumphal arch was created by Franz Seraph Nißl around 1800 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Heinz Moser: The parish history , Volders parish (PDF; 101 kB)
- ↑ a b c d e Parish Volders: Church history
- ↑ a b Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government, Culture Department (ed.): Culture reports from Tyrol 2010. 62nd Monument Report. Innsbruck 2010, pp. 94–96 ( PDF; 16.3 MB )
- ↑ Beinsteiner-Krall, Schmid-Pittl: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved June 9, 2016 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 17 '15.3 " N , 11 ° 34' 0.9" E