Parish Church Westendorf (Tyrol)

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Parish church hl. Nicholas in Westendorf
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The Roman Catholic parish church of Westendorf in Tyrol is located in the center of Westendorf in the Kitzbühel district in Tyrol . It is consecrated to St. Nicholas and belongs to the deanery Brixen im Thale in the Archdiocese of Salzburg . The building is a listed building .

history

A parish church dedicated to St. Nicholas is first mentioned in a document in 1320. At that time it was a small Gothic building.

Around 1500 the old church was replaced by a new Gothic building. A fire in 1630 largely destroyed it, but the retaining walls are likely to have been preserved, the floor plan with nave, apse wing and left side tower, for example , corresponds to Kirchberg from the same time.

In 1735 the church was first redesigned in baroque style .
From 1771 to 1775 the architect and builder Andre Hueber designed a new building for the baroque parish church and completely rebuilt it. The baroque ceiling frescoes come from the Tyrolean painter Matthias Kirchner .

In 1970 the parish church of Westendorf was completely restored. Restoration work took place again around 2005 .

Bells

The parish church has five bells , only four of which can be rung. They come from the Grassmayr bell foundry in Innsbruck and were cast in 1947. You heard it in tones 1 -g 1 -b 1 -c 2 .

Web links

Commons : Roman Catholic Parish Church of St. Nicholas in Westendorf, Tyrol  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tyrol - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from June 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 26, 2015 (PDF).
  2. ↑ Westendorf, Kitzbühel - Tyrol. Retrieved September 11, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Westendorf community - general information. Retrieved September 11, 2012 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 25 ′ 54.6 ″  N , 12 ° 12 ′ 53.6 ″  E