Parish church Kufstein
The Roman Catholic parish church of Kufstein is located in the center of the municipality of Kufstein in the Kufstein district in Tyrol . It is consecrated to St. Vitus and belongs to the Deanery Kufstein in the Archdiocese of Salzburg . The building is a listed building .
history
The Gothic construction of the St. Vitus Church was completed by 1420 at the latest and was the successor to an existing church. It is a three-aisled hall church with a polygonal choir closure.
In the years 1660 to 1661 it was baroque in order to adapt it to the taste of the time. These changes are still visible today: the facade, tower end, onion helmet and exterior design and color scheme have nothing in common with the Gothic appearance of the church. The emphasis on the center of the facade by a risalit and the subdivision by means of color-contrasting pilasters and pilaster strips is characteristic of the early, still relatively austere Baroque.
In 1840 the church was enlarged by one yoke . On this occasion, the baroque furniture was exchanged for a classicist one . In 1929 the vaulted sections of the central nave and the vault of the gallery were painted a secco by the painter Rudolf Stolz (1874–1960) . Extensive restorations took place in 1959 and 1991.
Furnishing
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The oldest piece of furniture that can be found in the church today is the classicistic high altar by the Tyrolean sculptor Josef Stumpf . The altar structure essentially consists of two pillars with Ionic capitals on pedestals and supported by a triangular gable . Directly below the gable is an ornamental frieze with floral motifs and angel heads. The gable itself bears the baroque symbol for God in its center: a triangle with an eye in the middle, surrounded by a halo. The altar is flanked by two statues of the apostles , which are believed to have been made by the Kufstein sculptor Kaspar Bichler (19th century). Seen from the altar on the right is Peter , recognizable by the keys in his hand, and on the left Paul , identified by the sword and the Gospel in his hands.
The altar painting is by the Tyrolean artist Josef Arnold the Elder (1788–1879) and shows the church's title saint (St. Vitus) as a martyr before Mary and Christ . As a martyr, in addition to the laurel wreath above his head, one of his attributes also identifies him - the kettle with boiling hot oil. Arnold's style is a mixture of classical and romantic elements: the clothes, posture, facial expressions and gestures of the figures are reminiscent of Heinrich Friedrich Füger , while the coloring is reminiscent of the Nazarenes .
In addition to the altarpiece, St. Vitus houses two other paintings by Josef Arnold the Elder. Ä. On the one hand a representation of the Madonna with Saint Barbara and Saint Catherine of Alexandria on the left side altar, on the other hand a painting of Saint Sebastian , whose wounds are currently being tended by the widow of the martyr Castulus , on the right side altar. All three paintings date from around 1840.
Of the wall paintings by the artist Rudolf Stolz from 1929 in the vault, those from the first to the third bay in the central nave, two in the gallery and one below the gallery in the entrance area have been preserved. The first yoke of the nave shows four Old Testament prophets : Daniel , David , Jeremiah and Isaiah . Each of the prophets holds a banner with quotes from the Bible on it .
- Daniel: "Seventy annual weeks are fixed"
- David: "Come, let us rejoice in the Lord our Savior"
- Jeremiah: "O you all who pass by, see whether a pain is equal to my pain"
- Isaiah: "See the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, his name will be Emanuel"
The second yoke shows the four evangelists using the symbols and inscriptions assigned to them by name. There are also various representations about it. In the center of this yoke, embedded in a hole, there is a Holy Spirit dove , surrounded by a golden halo. Above the evangelist Mark (lion) is Saint John the Baptist , opposite him - above the evangelist Luke (bull) - his father, Zacharias . Above the evangelist Matthew (winged person) you can recognize Mary at the cradle of Christ, behind the Bethlehemite star and lastly, opposite her, above the evangelist John (eagle) Christ with an open book in his hand on which the Greek letters alpha and Omega are to be read. These refer to a biblical verse after Off. 22:13: "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end".
In the vault of the third bay of the nave there is a coded representation of the Four Last Things . An emaciated figure, wrapped in a death liner, who seems to float away from a grave, represents death. An angel blowing a trumpet refers to the Last Judgment (see Revelation 8, 6-11, 19). The risen Christ with the victory flag in hand represents heaven . The archangel Michael , who just overcomes the dragon , symbol of Lucifer and all evil, refers to hell . On the archangel's shield are the words "Who is like God" - the meaning of his originally Hebrew name .
In the vault of the organ loft there are also depictions of an angel playing the harp and a violin . Below the angel playing the violin there is a banner saying “Praise the Lord you angels of the Lord” ( Dan 3.59 EU ) and below the angel playing the harp “Glory to God in the highest” ( Lk , 14 EU ; see also Vulgate , Lk 2,14: Gloria in excelsis Deo ). The last wall painting by Rudolf Stolz can be found in the area of the main entrance of the church, below the gallery. It shows Christ surrounded by two mothers and seven children.
Otherwise there are two medieval tombstones with relief depictions of the deceased and their coats of arms inside the St. Vitus church .
Bells
The ringing of the parish church consists of five bells in the tones c sharp 1 -e 1 -f sharp 1 -a 1 -c sharp 2 . Bell 4 (a 1 ) is the oldest in the chime and was cast in 1706 by Johann Paul Schellener. The other bells were made by Grassmayr in 1948. The ringing is quite high and all bells have a clapper .
Picture gallery
1. Vaulted yoke: The prophets
2. Gewölbejoch: The Evangelists
3. Gewölbejoch: The four last things
Altar with the painting by Josef Arnold
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Web links
- Website of the parish of St. Vitus
- The most capable painter in Tyrol - Rudolf Stolz in Insbruck and Kufstein. (The paintings by Rudolf Stolz in the parish church of Kufstein are at the center of a documentary by the Bolzano filmmaker Lucio Rosa and the art historian Hanns-Paul Ties.)
Individual evidence
- ^ 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).
Coordinates: 47 ° 34 '57.4 " N , 12 ° 10' 12.3" E