St. Lorenz in Rentsch

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The St. Lorenz Church in Rentsch
Frescoes of the old east apse
Interior of St. Lorenz

The St. Lorenz Church in Rentsch (also St. Laurentius in Rentsch ) is a South Tyrolean parish church in Rentsch in Zwölfmalgrei , a district of Bozen . The church is located on the old Brennerstraße just before the junction on the Rittner Berg .

The original Romanesque stock is 1180 in Bolzano Chronicle during a consecration called, but a church is already in a traditional note of the Bishopric of Brixen from the years 1085 to 1097 as a basilica sancti Laurentii mentioned.

The Falser family grave on the church wall

From the old church, the tower with biforic windows , which was raised in 1712, and the east apse with two walled-up slotted windows are still preserved. The stone holy water font with coat of arms and the inscription Jacobus Weidinger cappelanus MDXIIII (1514) also comes from her . Today's Widum , positioned west of St. Lorenz, is the old St. Pauls Church, which was consecrated together with St. Lorenz in 1180. St. Paul was rebuilt with a new tower in 1709, profaned around 1786 under Emperor Joseph II and converted into a rectory. The built-in round apse (with renewed windows) can still be seen from the old construction . The double church is documented in 1450 as the church of Paul and Laurence zu Rónntsch .

Today's church was built on the side of the tower in 1823 as a simple, classicist, north-facing building with a retracted, just closing choir . Inside there is a barrel vault with stitch caps over pilasters and cranked beams as well as a gallery . The high altar , a free-standing cafeteria with tabernacle, is a work by Joseph Renzler (around 1823). At the back there is an altarpiece with St. Laurentius .

From the years 1532 to 1811, almost 100 account books of the St. Paul and St. Lorenz Church in the Bolzano City Archives (Hss. 759–857), which were kept by the respective church princes . Among these were representatives of the local Falser family, whose family burial site is on the church wall.

The church was listed as a historical monument in 1977 . In the square in front of the church there is an old deep well from the 17th century, the Zigglbrunnen , in front of which the Rentsch church festival has been taking place for several decades .

literature

  • Josef Weingartner : The art monuments Bolzano . Vienna-Augsburg: Hölzel 1926, p. 189 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 , pp. 106-109.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Huter (edit.): Tyrolean document book . Section I, Volume 2. Innsbruck: Wagner 1949, p. 55, No. 112.
  2. ^ Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . Regesta of the communal holdings 1401–1500. tape 2 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-88-901870-1-8 , p. 105, No. 138 .
  3. ^ 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. 222–223, reference: p. 214 .

Web links

Commons : St. Lorenz in Rentsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office

Coordinates: 46 ° 29 ′ 54.3 "  N , 11 ° 22 ′ 36.6"  E