Zams parish church
The Roman Catholic parish church of Zams is located in the municipality of Zams in the Landeck district in Tyrol . It is consecrated to St. Andrew and belongs to the Deanery of Zams in the Diocese of Innsbruck . The building is a listed building ( list entry ).
Location description
The church is in the main square on the main street in the community center of Zams. A cemetery adjoins the church to the southwest.
history
A pastor in Zams was first mentioned in a document in 1271. The seat of the original parish was probably moved from Stanz near Landeck to Zams at that time . The church that exists today was rebuilt by Josef Huter after the village fire in 1911 and consecrated in 1913 . In 1977 and 1978 the church was restored.
architecture
- Exterior description
The church is a neo-baroque building with a free-standing steeple. The church tower stands freely northeast of the parish church on the main square. It comes from the original parish church from the 17th century and was renewed after the fire of 1764. The spire was recreated around 1912. The church tower is divided into three floors, has high round arched sound windows with balustrades. Above that are hipped gables, the church tower roof is designed as a folding roof with a lantern and an onion helmet.
The church is a hall building with a central transept and a recessed, round-arched choir . This is oriented to the southwest. There is a hipped gable roof over the nave . The entrances in the northeast and on the transept arms are presented with pillar porticos. A sacristy annex adjoins the church in the east.
- Inside description
The nave is three-bay and has an additional gallery bay. The central yoke is square vaulted, the short transepts barrel vaulted . The remaining yokes as well as the choir are arched over with a basket arch barrel. The windows are designed as arched windows. A surrounding cornice runs through the interior of the church. The skylights cut into the vault. The organ loft is three-axis and two-storey and rests on pillars. In the vault there are stucco medallions with Empire motifs. The ceiling pictures are by Toni Kirchmayr from 1941.
Furnishing
The baroque high altar dates from the middle of the 18th century. The statues on the side represent Saints Joachim and Joseph of Nazareth . The altarpiece shows Saint Andrew and was painted in 1912 by Ernst Grissemann after Schöpf . The burnt model, however, comes from Johann Georg Witwer from 1792. In the church there are also four baroque side altars from the middle of the 18th century. All altars come from the old parish church of Hötting . They have carved figures from around 1912 as well as altarpieces with depictions of Saints Andrew, Antonius and Joseph. They were painted by Ernst Grissemann. To the side are baroque statuettes of Saints Thomas Aquinas , Georg , Joachim and Anna . The baroque pulpit dates from the third quarter of the 18th century. The console figures represent the weather saints John and Paul and date from the middle of the 18th century. The figures of Saints Francis and Anthony are from the second half of the 18th century.
organ
The organ by the Rieger brothers dates from 1932.
literature
- Zams. Parish church hl. Andreas. In: Dehio manual . The art monuments of Austria: Tyrol. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-7031-0488-0 , p. 890.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Tyrol - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento of August 24, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), ( CSV ( Memento of August 24, 2018 in the Internet Archive )). Federal Monuments Office , as of January 22, 2018.
Coordinates: 47 ° 9 '27 .4 " N , 10 ° 35' 20.4" E