Seven Chapel Church

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Entrance facade

The Seven Chapel Church , also Holy grave Church or Seven Cross Chapel , is a profaniertes church building in Innsbruck District Three Wise slaughterhouse .

history

Archduke Ferdinand II had the Holy Sepulcher Church built on the model of the Holy Sepulcher  in Jerusalem with seven station chapels in the area called Kohlstatt near the Sill in 1583–1584 . Pope Gregory XIII granted the princely family an indulgence , which was granted by Pope Innocent XII in 1696 . was extended to the general public. In 1670 the church was badly damaged by an earthquake and then demolished. The church was rebuilt slightly from 1676–1678 using stones from the previous building according to plans by Johann Martin Gumpp the Elder under the master builder Johann Baptist Hoffingott.

In 1786 the church was profaned in the course of the secularization under Joseph II . The interior decoration was largely given to other churches, a much venerated votive image of St. Alexius was transferred to the nearby Three Saints Church . In 1791 the building was auctioned, from 1793 it served as a warehouse for the military and later as a grain store. From 1945 to 1988 it was used as a warehouse by the Austrian Post and Telegraph Administration. The building has been empty since the post office moved out and is only used occasionally for cultural events, especially exhibitions and concerts. From 1998 to 2000 the exterior of the rather shabby church was renovated.

description

The Seven Chapel Church, stylistically in the transition from early to high baroque , is a strongly structured, elongated building on a trapezoidal floor plan. On each side of the nave there are three protruding chapels, the almost square choir adjoins it to the northeast, with the sacristy behind. The five-axis main facade in the line of sight of Kapuzinergasse is structured by pilasters in a Roman-Doric order . Originally there was a roof turret above it . During the renovation in 1998-2000, two doors were walled up and the main entrance made smaller.

With the sequence of chapels as stations of the Cross , the interior leads to the Holy Sepulcher as the center of the complex. The trapezoidal floor plan and a sloping vault increase the perspective effect and simulate a larger length of the room. The unusual and probably unique room concept for the southern German-Austrian region is in the tradition of Roman baroque architecture. The  frescoes created by Gabriel Kessler are no longer preserved.

use

The listed building is owned by the Republic of Austria and is administered by the Castle Authority Austria . A sensible and appropriate use has been discussed since the 1920s, particularly intensively, but so far without result since the eviction by the Post in 1988. The current occasional use for exhibitions or concerts is only intended as an interim solution. In 1993/94 there was an architectural appraisal procedure to adapt the building for a branch of the Salzburg Mozarteum . Other plans provided for the natural history collections of the Tyrolean State Museum or an expansion of the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Innsbruck . The Serbian Orthodox community, which at that time used the chapel of the Sieber School, was interested in taking over the building and using it again as a church, but in 2019 was given the Sacred Heart Church in the city center.

literature

Web links

Commons : Siebenkapellenkirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Egg:  Kessler, Gabriel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 544 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Büchsenhausen Castle as a new museum center. In: Innsbrucker Stadtnachrichten, No. 7/1990, p. 9 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ University of Innsbruck, Vice Rectorate for Infrastructure: Spatial structure and development plan of the University of Innsbruck 2010 - 2020 ( PDF; 841 kB )
  4. ^ Orthodox Church continues looking for a hostel , tirol.orf.at of January 6, 2011
  5. ↑ Orthodox Christians were given a church as a gift , tirol.orf.at of March 10, 2019

Coordinates: 47 ° 16 ′ 17.1 ″  N , 11 ° 24 ′ 22.7 ″  E