St. Justina in Prazöll

St. Justina from the northwest

St. Justina in Prazöll is a late medieval church, which is located in the hamlet of St. Justina above Bozen along the road to Renon .

The simple late Romanesque building was built in the early 13th century (first mentioned in 1207: "sancta Justina" ) with a straight choir closure , pointed barrel, rectangular door and arched windows. The tower has Triforienöffnungen and a brick pointed pyramid. Among the wall paintings in the interior of the church is a representation of St. Ursula with her virgins. The total Tyrolean Urbar Count Meinhard II. Of 1288 recorded princely possession "ze sand Justein" that the Office Gries is expected. In the district court order of Gries-Bozen from 1487, Ulrich Zwigkh appears as his own district captain "zu sand Justein" , who also functions as the sovereign tax collector .

The church was rebuilt in its old form in 1954 after the bombing of the Second World War .

literature

Josef Weingartner : The art monuments Bolzano . Vienna-Augsburg: Hölzel 1926, p. 190 (online)
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. 108.

Individual evidence

^ Franz Huter (edit.): Tyrolean document book . Dept. I, Volume 2. Innsbruck: Wagner 1949, No. 572.
^ Oswald Zingerle (Ed.): Meinhards II. Urbare der Grafschaft Tirol. (= Fontes Rerum Austriacarum, Diplomataria et acta 55 / I). Vienna 1890, p. 117, No. 19.
^ 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, no.1230 .

Web links

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

46.499057 11.388413Coordinates: 46 ° 29 ′ 56.6 ″ N , 11 ° 23 ′ 18.3 ″ E

[1] Franz Huter (edit.): Tyrolean document book . Dept. I, Volume 2. Innsbruck: Wagner 1949, No. 572.

[2] Oswald Zingerle (Ed.): Meinhards II. Urbare der Grafschaft Tirol. (= Fontes Rerum Austriacarum, Diplomataria et acta 55 / I). Vienna 1890, p. 117, No. 19.

[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. 191, no.1230 .