Parish Church Werfenweng
The Werfenweng parish church stands on a slope on the eastern edge of the village in the Werfenweng municipality in the St. Johann im Pongau district in the Salzburg region . The Roman Catholic parish church , consecrated on the feast of the birth of the Virgin Mary , belongs to the Altenmarkt dean's office in the Archdiocese of Salzburg . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
The church was consecrated in 1509. 1744 Vicariate. In 1830 the church received a cemetery. In 1891 the church was elevated to a parish church.
In 1565 the vault was renewed. In 1717 the sacristy was added by master mason Christian Glaser. In 1740 the windows in the choir were changed. In 1895/1897 the church was regotized. 1955 and 1972 were restorations.
architecture
The three-aisled late Gothic church, which is undivided outside, with pointed arched windows has a west tower. The three-aisled nave from the end of the 15th century has a roof with wooden shingles. The grooved, ogival west portal has a tympanum covered with tracery, the door has late-Gothic fittings. The facing west tower with the year 1625 has three storeys divided by cornices and above it carries an octagonal tower with arched sound windows and a pointed helmet. A chamfered round-arched portal leads to the groin-vaulted tower hall, where there is an Alberti plaque stating Anton Pierer 1865. The two-storey sacristy annex stands on the south side of the choir. On the north side of the nave there is an olive niche with a painted landscape formerly designated Anton Posch 1831 with a group of figures of Christ and the sleeping disciples from the end of the 18th century.
The three-bay nave has octagonal pillars in the central nave with upstream services with capitals, from each of which six ribs rise, which carry an ogival diamond-shaped rib vault from 1565 with shield-shaped keystones. There are chamfered pointed arches to the lower aisles, in the aisles the yokes are separated by belt ribs, and there are late Gothic star rib vaults. In the nave there is a simple wooden gallery from 1749. The triumphal arch is chamfered and ogival. The two-bay choir, raised by one step, has the same width and height as the central nave and closes off on three sides. The choir has a late-Gothic ribbed vault over circular services. On the right in the choir is a grooved late Gothic sacristy portal with an iron plate door. The simple glass windows of the church are from 1895.
Furnishing
The high pillar altar with a volute was built in 1763. The altar contains a niche with late Gothic carvings from around 1500 with Mary and child surrounded by angels from the second half of the 18th century. The side of the altar bears the baroque console figures of St. Wolfgang and St. Bishop. In the top there is a baroque carved Trinity flanked by angels from the 18th century. Josef Gold names the tabernacle with an image of Christ in 1915.
The side altars are from the fourth quarter of the 18th century. The left side altar dedicated by Rosalia Rettensteiner shows the altar leaf St. Anna and in the upper picture St. Aloysius around 1780. The right side altar shows the altar sheet Herz Jesu painted by Slavi Soucek (1956) and in the upper picture the hll. Dionysius and Blaise around 1780.
The neo-Gothic organ was built by Albert Mauracher (1897).
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Salzburg 1986 . Werfenweng, Parish Church of the Birth of Mary, with floor plan, rectory west of the church, pp. 492–493.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 27 '40.7 " N , 13 ° 15' 33.1" E