Parish Church of Wals

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Catholic parish church of St. Georg in Wals

The Roman Catholic parish church of Wals is in the village of Wals in the municipality of Wals-Siezenheim in the Salzburg-Umgebung district in the state of Salzburg . The parish church of St. Georg belongs to the dean's office in Bergheim in the Archdiocese of Salzburg . The church is a listed building .

It was first mentioned in a document in 788. The Romanesque single-nave building with a Gothic tower and a baroque spire was re-romanized in 1860 according to the plans of the diocesan master builder Georg Kamml and re-consecrated in 1863 by Archbishop Maximilian Joseph von Tarnóczy .

history

Late Gothic death lamp in the cemetery of Wals
Main altar (1860) by Julius Frank with the two diocesan patrons Rupert and Virgil (mid-17th century, formerly St. Andrew's Church in Salzburg)
Roman fragment from the 2nd / 3rd centuries AD century on the parish church in Wals
Marian stele by Friedrich Koller in the Marienkapelle
Neo-Baroque Lady Chapel from 1927

The first documentary mentions of whales in the middle of the 8th century as Walchwis or Vicus Romaniscus indicate that Romanes ( Walchen ) lived here in contrast to the majority of the Bavarian population in the surrounding area. In the property registers of Archbishop Arno of Salzburg , the so-called Notitia Arnonis , Walahowis is listed as one of the sixty-three own churches of the Salzburg archbishops. After the separation of the Archdiocese of Salzburg and the Benedictine monastery of St. Peter in 987, the possessions in Wals came to the monastery. In 1106 a cemetery around the Walser church is mentioned for the first time. In the 12th century Wals was subordinated to the Siezenheim parish , which in turn was incorporated into the Salzburg cathedral chapter . In 1614, the Höglerbauer Wolf Mäzinger was known as the first sacristan in Wals. From 1736 a primary school was installed at the sacristan's farmer and looked after as a catechist by a Siezenheim cooperator .

Until 1860 Wals remained a subsidiary church of Siezenheim, with services being held every other Sunday, on various holidays and at funerals. Since 38 new parishes were set up in the Archdiocese of Salzburg between 1852 and 1859, the citizens of Wals, Gois, Walserberg, Käferham and some from Viehhausen also requested the creation of their own parish. The reasons given were the long way to Siezenheim and the presence of a cemetery and a school in Wals. The approval of an own parish was tied to the condition of a new church and the assurance of an own parsonage. The residents agreed to assume these costs and provide appropriate robot services.

Despite violent opposition from part of the Viehhausen population, who were tied to Siezenheim because of their graves, Wals became its own parish in 1860 . The parish district was changed to its own pastoral care office in 1956, and in 1967 some localities came from Wals to the new Salzburg parish Kendlersiedlung St. Vitalis.

Building history

Little is known about the appearance of the previous building. From early descriptions and the renovation plan from 1860 it is clear that the church consisted of a west tower, a vaulted Gothic and, in the core, presumably Romanesque nave with an attached sacristy and vestibule in the south and a choir square with an apse in the east . The two meter thick walls in the east indicate Romanesque origins.

The church tower, which is Gothic in the lower parts, was supplemented in 1737 with a baroque upper floor with a swinging clock gable and a multi-constricted onion helmet. Due to the expansion of the church in 1860, the tower was shifted from the central axis.

During the renovation, the old furnishings came into other hands: the pulpit from 1512, probably from the Salzburg Cathedral, was transferred to the branch church of St. Cross and St. Elisabeth . A marble side altar dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows was sold to Teichting near Petting in Bavaria.

Today's appearance

Today the church consists of the west tower, a cubic nave closed with a gable roof-shaped wooden ceiling and a choir with the main altar rounded off with a large dome . The church is surrounded by the cemetery on a conglomerate rock above the Saalach plain .

In 1949 the church received four new bells from the Oberascher bell foundry in Kasern . The sacristy was enlarged in 1973 and a priestly crypt was laid out. In 1972 a new parsonage with a parish hall and rehearsal room for the church choir was moved into. Earlier conversions from the 1930s were withdrawn between 1985 and 1998.

To the left of the entrance door there is a Roman relief from the 2nd / 3rd centuries. Century, which was possibly part of a Roman funerary monument. It represents the trunk and hind leg of a horse with a bush growing under it.

In the western part of the cemetery there is a late Gothic death lamp, which was made around 1500 from light marble. The turned shaft stands on a prismatic base and is terminated by a light tabernacle that merges into a bulky cross. The pillar goes to a foundation of a farm at the “St. Jörgengotteshaus ”in Wals with the dedication to maintain a light at night and on public holidays.

In the south of the church there is a Marienkapelle built into the cemetery wall. This was originally built as a morgue in 1927 and converted into a chapel in 1984/85. At the front of the chapel there is a stele with a figure of Mary by Friedrich Koller, which is designed according to the description of the Apocalypse (“And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet and on her head a crown with twelve golden stars. ”Revelation 12,1 EU ).

literature

  • Dehio Salzburg 1986 , Wals, parish church hl. Georg, pages 477 f.
  • Christian Art Centers in Austria, No. 435.Salzburg : St. Peter, 2005
  • Herbert Berndl (art historian): The churches of the parish Wals: Parish church to St. Georg in Wals. Salzburg: St. Peter, 2005
  • Parish of Wals: From the branch church to the large parish. 150 years parish Wals 1860-2010. Wals parish office, 2010

Web links

Commons : Parish Church of St. George (Wals)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 47 ° 47 '27.3 "  N , 12 ° 57' 53.8"  E