St. Johann (Ahrntal)

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Parish Church of St. Johann

St. Johann , also called Ahrn ( Italian San Giovanni ), is a fraction of the municipality of Ahrntal in South Tyrol ( Italy ). With 1,997 inhabitants (as of 2017) the village is the largest town in the Ahrntal . St. Johann is 1017  m above sea ​​level .

The village is located in the center of the Ahrntal and is known as a starting point for hikes in the Zillertal Alps .

Name and parish church

The place got its name from St. John the Baptist , to whom the parish church is consecrated. As early as 1491 , St. Johann is documented as its own Ahrntaler Sprengel, the St. Johann-Pimwerch ( "inn Ewrn in Sand Johannsen bimberch" ), the local name for administrative units.

The impressive, late Baroque church building with its mighty dome tower was built in 1783–1788 by the builder Joseph Abenthung . The high altar is by Joseph Schöpf . The former parish church stood in the hamlet of St. Martin near the Trippach and was destroyed by a Murbruch in 1330. Therefore, a new church was built on a hill near today's Weißenbachlhof on the orographically left bank of the Ahr. In 1731 the Widenhof in St. Martin, where the pastors had lived until then, was sold and the Steinpenthof acquired, which from then on served as a widum . Since the parish church at Weißenbachl was in the meantime dilapidated and probably too small, the construction of a new church next to the Widum was considered. The driving force behind this was Pastor Franz Xaver Wierer.

Attractions

In the center of the village there is a small museum in the house where the Oberkofler brothers were born, the "Oberkofler Museum". Between St. Johann and Steinhaus, in the hamlet of Mühlegg, there is a private mineral museum that is well worth seeing. The panel saw is also in Mühlegg. The Frankbach waterfall with its marble troughs is a geological feature.

The Oberkofler brothers

St. Johann is the hometown of the brothers Joseph Georg Oberkofler and Johann Baptist Oberkofler as well as the theologian Peter Wasserer.

Web links

Commons : St. Johann im Ahrntal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hannes Obermair : "Sources, people, dates: the Steinhauser deed of 1491". In: Ahrntal. A church book . Edited by the Ahrntal community. Steinhaus 1999. pp. 56-59.
  2. ↑ Paul Gruber (Ed.): Leaves of the memory of the graduated theologian and cleric Peter Wasserer (1822-1845). Brixen: Provincial Publishing House 2010.

Coordinates: 46 ° 59 '  N , 11 ° 56'  E