Guardian Angel Church (Innsbruck)

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Guardian Angel Church with forecourt

The Guardian Angel Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Innsbruck 's Pradl district . The church, built from 1950 to 1952, is dedicated to the holy guardian angels and is a listed building .

history

In the 20th century, Pradl grew strongly, especially due to the construction of the South Tyrolean settlement from 1939 to 1942, and expanded to the east. In 1946 more than 17,000 inhabitants lived in the area of ​​the Pradl parish , so that the establishment of a new parish in the east of the district (Pradl-Ost or Neupradl) was planned. After long negotiations and in the course of a swap, the housing association "Neue Heimat" made a plot of land on Gumppstrasse available free of charge in September 1949. On December 1, 1949, a barrack in Amthorstrasse was taken over, which served as an emergency church and in which the first service was celebrated on April 24, 1950.

On November 12, 1950, the foundation stone for the new church was laid. It was the first new church building in Innsbruck after the Second World War and the first major commission for the young architect Karl Friedrich Albert. The church was founded on September 7, 1953 benediziert and on 19 and 20 March 1960 consecrated .

After a pastor had already been appointed in 1950, Neupradl was established as a parish vicariate on January 1, 1953 , and on January 1, 1961, was elevated to a parish. Small parts of the parish area were later ceded to the newly established parishes of St. Paulus , St. Norbert and St. Pirmin . Today Neu-Pradl forms a pastoral care room with Pradl.

description

portal

architecture

The 36 m long and 15.6 m wide church is separated from Gumppstraße by a forecourt and is surrounded by residential buildings built at the same time.

The building, designed in traditional forms, consists of a long house with a gable roof made of plastered brickwork with a short transept and a slightly protruding massive tower in the southwest corner. The 21 m high tower is cubic in design and has arched and rectangular windows as well as a tent roof . The exterior is characterized by the adoption and reshaping of Romanized style elements. The portals and windows are emphasized with strong frames. On the entrance facade there is a round window in the central axis. The terracotta -relief right of it is a guardian angel with a family and the Tyrolean coat of arms of Emmerich guys from the year 1956. The copper- driven doors with representations of the four evangelists were created by Emmerich guys 1965th

The interior is an elongated, high hall with a raised transept and a flat arched choir . The nave is surrounded on three sides by a gallery . The north wall of the nave forms a triumphal arch , which has round-arched passages to the transept in the ground floor and gallery area. The flat ceiling above the galleries merges into a flat barrel vault . The choir and transept are raised by four steps and have a flat roof.

To the left of the main entrance in the basement of the tower is a Fatima chapel, the former baptistery. The baptismal font is now in the right area of ​​the chancel.

Furnishing

On the high altar wall is a larger than life carved Rosary Madonna by Johannes Obleitner from 1945, which was donated by war returnees. The tabernacle with three archangels comes from the Schwaz goldsmith's workshop Schneider-Rappel. The side altars show wooden reliefs of the Archangels (left) and the Holy Family (right), which were created by Johannes Obleitner in 1956/57.

The Terracotta Stations of the Cross are a work by Emmerich Kerle from 1954.

The organ on the gallery was built in 1959 by Reinisch-Pirchner and has two manuals with 56 tones each.

literature

Web links

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Coordinates: 47 ° 15 ′ 58.6 ″  N , 11 ° 24 ′ 57 ″  E