Waidring parish church
The parish church Waidring is located in the municipality Waidring in the district of Kitzbühel in the state of Tyrol . The Roman Catholic parish church, which is subordinate to the double patronage of Saints Vitus and Nikolaus von Myra , belongs to the deanery of St. Johann in Tirol in the Archdiocese of Salzburg . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
A church was documented in 1381. First a branch of the parish church in Kirchdorf in Tirol, the church was elevated to a parish church in 1891.
From 1480 to 1504 a late Gothic church was built according to the plans of Matthäus Koppolt. From 1757 to 1760 a new baroque building was carried out according to the plans of the master builder Kassian Singer (1712–1759), from 1759 the completion was carried out by Andreas Hueber . The church was consecrated for the feast of the Assumption of Mary on August 15, 1764 by the Chiemsee Bishop Franz Carl von Trauchburg . During excavations in the church in 1991, evidence of burials in the 8th century and a transverse foundation around 1200 were unearthed.
architecture
The baroque church building under a steep, shingled gable roof with a slender east tower is surrounded by a cemetery.
The exterior of the church shows a plaster pilaster structure and arched windows with circular windows above, with walled circular windows in the choir. The plain western front has a segmented arch portal with a garment made of red marble with the chronogram 1759, the north and south portals are of the same design. Two-storey sacristies are built on both sides of the slightly drawn-in, flat-rounded choir. The east tower, which is essentially late Gothic, was extended around 1780 with two bell storeys set off by cornices with round arched sound openings and a double onion helmet.
The interior of the church shows as a three-bay nave with a retracted single-bay choir with a flat, round apse, the nave and choir have square vaults with stitch caps between belt arches on sloping pillars with pilasters. The rococo capitals and the stuccoed window crowns were created by Josef Gratl. The two-storey west gallery stands on columns made of red marble. In the choir there are side galleries on both sides above the sacristy portals.
The vault paintings with pseudo architecture and depictions in illusionistic domed rooms, in the nave architectural prospect and angels around an opening in the sky, the transfiguration of Saints Vitus and Nicholas, in the spandrels the four evangelists, above the western gallery Marter des Sts. Vitus in the oil kettle, in the choir of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary , on the choir walls Esther in front of Ahasver and Judith with the head of Holofernes , painted by Josef Perwäger and Matthias Mader in 1761. On the marbled pilasters there are painted half-figures of the apostles.
Furnishing
The furnishing was uniformly built around 1760. The high altar as a rococo canopy altar with a plinth and cafeteria made of marble shows the high altar sheet St. Vitus and Nicholas in front of the Madonna from the end of the 17th century. On the side of the high altar carries the life-size figures of St. Peter and Paul by Josef Martin Lengauer .
The two side altars bear the figures of St. Anna and Joachim, stylistically belonging to the two console figures St. Stephan and Rupert in the choir were created by the sculptor Thomas Blieml around 1800.
The late Gothic Madonna on the north wall of the nave is from the middle of the 15th century.
literature
- Waidring, parish church of St. Vitus and Nikolaus, cemetery, Widum, chapels, wayside chapel. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Tirol 1980 . Pp. 865-866.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 35 ′ 1 ″ N , 12 ° 34 ′ 7.4 ″ E