St. Georgen (Gries)

St. George's Church in Gries-Bozen from the south

The St. Georgs Church (also St. Georg am Kofel im Sand or St. Georgen ) is a late medieval church in South Tyrol , located at an altitude of 593 m slm on a leveled slope on the hillside of Gries , a district of Bolzano .

The building is first documented in a court document of the Hochstift Freising dated December 3, 1165 as "sanctus Ieorius" . The church is also in the entire Tyrolean Urbar Count Meinhard II. Of 1288 as "pei sand Georien" named because of the sovereign possessed here on taxable property. In 1417 the church and the surrounding settlement formed from several courtyards are called "sand Jörgen" . In the district court code of Gries-Bozen from 1487, Urban am Stain (stone farmer in the sand) appears as a separate district captain of St. Georgen, who also functions as the princely tax collector.

The tower with triforic windows dates from around 1300, its brick pointed helmet from the late 15th century. The nave was built around 1400. The three-sided choir closure is provided with a six-armed rib vault, the nave with a ribbed vault . There are sculpted consoles with canopies on the southern outer wall.

In the top of the neo-Gothic winged altar there is a 16th century statue of the Virgin Mary with the Christ child.

From the years 1597 to 1807, 79 account books of St. Georgen are preserved in the Bolzano city archive (Hss. 1091–1170), which were kept by the respective church princes .

The church was listed as a historical monument in 1977 .

literature

Josef Weingartner : The art monuments Bolzano . Vienna-Augsburg: Hölzel 1926, p. 207 f. (on-line)
Josef Weingartner: The art monuments of South Tyrol. Volume 2: Bozen and surroundings, Unterland, Burggrafenamt, Vinschgau. 7th edition, edit. by Magdalena Hörmann-Weingartner. Bozen-Innsbruck-Vienna: Athesia-Tyrolia 1991. ISBN 88-7014-642-1 , p. 71.

Individual evidence

^ Franz Huter (edit.): Tyrolean document book . Section I. Volume 1. Innsbruck: Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum 1937, p. 146, no. 305.
^ Oswald Zingerle (Ed.): Meinhards II. Urbare der Grafschaft Tirol. (= Fontes Rerum Austriacarum, Diplomataria et acta 55 / I). Vienna 1890, p. 123, no.159.
^ Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 2 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-88-901870-1-8 , p. 55, no.946 .
^ Hannes Obermair: Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 2 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-88-901870-1-8 , p. 191 ff., No. 1230 and 1236 .
^ Hannes Obermair: Multiple Pasts - Collecting for the City? The Bolzano City Archives 3.0 . In: Philipp Tolloi (Ed.): Archives in South Tyrol: History and Perspectives / Archivi in Provincia di Bolzano: storia e prospettive (= publications of the South Tyrolean Provincial Archives 45 ). Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2018, ISBN 978-3-7030-0992-1 , p. 211–224, reference: p. 214 .

Web links

Commons : St. Georgen (Gries) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office

46.516539 11.34494Coordinates: 46 ° 30 ′ 59.5 " N , 11 ° 20 ′ 41.8" E

[1] Franz Huter (edit.): Tyrolean document book . Section I. Volume 1. Innsbruck: Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum 1937, p. 146, no. 305.

[2] Oswald Zingerle (Ed.): Meinhards II. Urbare der Grafschaft Tirol. (= Fontes Rerum Austriacarum, Diplomataria et acta 55 / I). Vienna 1890, p. 123, no.159.

[3] Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 2 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-88-901870-1-8 , p. 55, no.946 .

[4] Hannes Obermair: Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 2 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-88-901870-1-8 , p. 191 ff., No. 1230 and 1236 .

[5] Hannes Obermair: Multiple Pasts - Collecting for the City? The Bolzano City Archives 3.0 . In: Philipp Tolloi (Ed.): Archives in South Tyrol: History and Perspectives / Archivi in Provincia di Bolzano: storia e prospettive (= publications of the South Tyrolean Provincial Archives 45 ). Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2018, ISBN 978-3-7030-0992-1 , p. 211–224, reference: p. 214 .