St. John the Baptist (Kleinsöll)
The branch church of St. John the Baptist in Kleinsöll , a part of the municipality of Breitenbach am Inn in the Kufstein district , is a late Gothic building from around 1480. The church and the former cemetery are listed .
history
On the site of today's church there was a landlord's own church with a burial place from the 9th century. This was found during excavations. The first church can be documented in 1315. Most of the tower comes from this late Romanesque building. Around 1480 it was replaced by the late Gothic sacred building by Hans von Breitenbach . The nave was given a flat barrel vault in place of the original wooden ceiling in 1638 . The church received the neo-Gothic interior in the last third of the 19th century. The church was badly damaged by a bomb drop in 1945, and during the subsequent repair work, 24 frescoes painted using Secco technique were found in the vaulted areas of the choir . The last extensive restoration took place in 1988/90.
description
The small hall building with a massive choir apex tower (with a pointed helmet ) has an undivided exterior, and on the west side a round arched portal made of Hagau marble. The interior shows a nave with a flat barrel vault and a non-retracted choir with a ribbed vault with three-eighth closure . The eastern end of the choir window still shows the original tracery.
The most valuable decoration of the church are the exposed and preserved choir frescoes from the late Renaissance . Saints John the Baptist and Saint John the Evangelist are depicted in the central vaulted fields above the altar, while the side frescoes show Saints Barbara, Magdalena and Margaretha. The other vaults represent the Mother of God, the Archangel Michael, angels making music and the symbols of the evangelists.
On the neo-Gothic altar, built according to the design of the Franciscan Father Johann Maria Reiter, is a group of carved baptisms of Christ in the central shrine. The saints Rupert and Virgil are inserted on the side. An early baroque crescent moon Madonna in a halo around 1650 is enthroned at the altar extension .
The parapet frescoes of the masonry gallery show the representations of the Annunciation , the Resurrection of Christ and a scene from the Mount of Olives . The statues of Saints Vitus , Michael, Leonhard , Maria, Joseph and Rochus stand on wall consoles . The ceiling fresco in the nave above the gallery shows the Holy Family.
literature
- Parish church of St. Peter Breitenbach am Inn . Katholisches Pfarramt Breitenbach am Inn (Ed.), Wörgl 2000, pp. 18-22.
- Reinhard Rampold: Art Guide Tirol . Tyrolia Verlag, Innsbruck 2014, p. 214.
- Walter Rampl: A house full of glory looks - All the churches of Tyrol 2 . Self-published, Innsbruck 2009, pp. 100–101.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 29 ′ 0.3 " N , 11 ° 59 ′ 29.8" E