City parish church Schärding
The parish church of Schärding is located in the town of Schärding in the Schärding district of Upper Austria (Kirchengasse 6). It is dedicated to St. George .
history
At the time of the early church organization in the Middle Ages, Schärding belonged to the original parish of St. Weihflorian . Like the Münzkirchen parish , this consisted of areas that had originally belonged to the St. Severin parish in Passau's Innstadt . St. Weihflorian was first designated as an independent parish in 1182 when it was incorporated into the Passau “Innbruckamt”, which was subordinate to the St. Aegidien Hospital in the city center. The parish of St. Weihflorian was very extensive: It lay between the area of activity of the original parish of St. Severin and that of the original parish of Münsteuer and included the area of today's parishes of Brunnenthal , Schärding , St. Florian am Inn , Suben , St. Marienkirchen and Eggerding , plus shares in today's parishes of Taufkirchen , Lambrechte and Rainbach . When the parish of St. Weihflorian was relocated to Schärding in 1380 , the town itself became a parish.
The construction of today's parish church was initiated in 1307 by the ducal official and castle keeper, Knight Ludwig der Grans. At that time Schärding was detached from the parish of St. Weihflorian and raised to its own parish; this was confirmed by Bishop Bernhard von Passau and the Bavarian Duke.
The cross vault in the bell house of the west tower is from the early Gothic period. Additional chapels and a new east choir were built by numerous foundations between 1450 and 1500 ; from this the masonry with the buttresses are still preserved.
In the baroque period , the Gothic pyramid tower was replaced by an onion dome in 1660 . The church received a new high altar in 1686 . In 1703 the parish church of St. George was bombed and badly damaged in the course of the War of the Spanish Succession by the imperial General Reventlau.
Between 1720 and 1726 it was rebuilt in the Baroque style according to plans by the Passau Cathedral Chapter Master Jakob Pawagner . When a pillar collapsed on December 24, 1721, Pawanger was arrested and deposed, and in 1722 the Munich court architect Johann Baptist Gunetzrhainer was entrusted with the continuation. Gunetzrhainer employed his relative Johann Michael Fischer as foreman and technical manager during the construction . Stones from the demolished castle tower were also used for the construction .
During the French bombardment on April 26, 1809, the whole town with the church fell victim to the flames. The roof structure was set on fire and the presbytery vault collapsed. The high altar, the choir stalls, the pulpit and the stalls burned. During the French occupation , the church ruins served as a stable and warehouse. In 1810 Schärding came back under Bavarian sovereignty and the reconstruction of the church began. The Bavarian state coat of arms at the top of the triumphal arch indicates the restoration under the Bavarian district building inspector von Ranson in 1814.
After the Congress of Vienna , Schärding returned to Austria on May 1, 1816 . In 1838 the stump of the tower was expanded and in 1840 a new organ was added to the church. In 1854 a carved way of the cross in neo -renaissance style was acquired. The whitewashed church was painted by Max Gehri between 1902 and 1904 in a gloomy neo-renaissance, neo- baroque and late Nazarene style.
The church tower, which was again damaged by fire in 1945, was repaired in 1948, the exterior facades were repainted in 1957, the roof was re-covered in 1967 and a new organ was built in 1973. The paintings by Gehri were whitewashed. Between 1975 and 1979 the interior of the church and the altars were restored and restored in baroque style.
Furnishing
After the nave was demolished in 1715, the church was rebuilt in the dimensions of the older Gothic building in 1720–1726. The parish church has a single nave, five bay nave. In the eastern part, a transept is indicated by a larger yoke width and the elevation of the chapels . The Corinthian pilasters have a richly tiered cornice.
In the west tower there is a ribbed vault with a keystone in the form of a square plate. The bell room is equipped with arched windows, above which rises an octagonal structure with Tuscan corner pilasters, arched sound windows and an onion helmet. The nave walls are structured according to the gigantic Tuscan order . There are semicircular closed niches at the top between the pilasters .
The left entrance portal made of red marble with a profiled frame and curved roof dates from 1784. There are high Gothic buttresses in the two-bay presbytery . The two-storey sacristy , structured by Tuscan pilasters, stands on the south side of the presbytery.
The marble pulpit from 1815 was made by Anton Högler, Salzburg, based on a model by Christian Jorhann the Elder. J. A red marble, Gothic baptismal font with a baroque dome and a memorial stone to Duke Ludwig the Bearded on the ground floor of the west tower should also be mentioned . The Baroque Way of the Cross comes from the former Capuchin Church. The new organ was built in 1973 by the Tyrolean organ building company Pirchner (three-manual, 2224 pipes, 31 registers).
Altars
On July 15, 1815, the Salzburg stonemason Anton Högler erected the red marble high altar that King Maximilian Josef I of Bavaria had given to Schärding from the abolished Carmelite Church in Regensburg . It was originally commissioned by Emperor Leopold I in 1677 by Johann Peter Spaz from Linz (also called Giovanni Pietro Spazzi) for the Carmelite Church in Regensburg. The altarpiece with the Nativity was created by Joseph Bergler in 1817 . Above it is a coat of arms with a shield and double-headed eagle , in the top there is a picture of St. Georg by the Munich painter Josef Hauber .
The side altars in the transept are a Sacred Heart altar by Johann Michael Rottmayr from 1690 and a Marian altar from the 19th century. There are further side altars in the nave: St. Joseph's altar by the Munich painter J. Adam Müller from 1727, a Holy Family altar , whose altarpiece from 1726 also comes from J. Adam Müller, a cross altar , whose picture from J. Hauber from around 1816 originates, a baptismal altar, the altarpiece of which depicts the baptism of Jesus , also by J. Hauber (a self-portrait of the painter can be seen in the background on the right).
Bells
The four bells were made by the Graßmayr bell foundry in Innsbruck in 1839 . In 1942 they were delivered for war purposes , but found again in Hamburg and brought back to the church on March 6, 1947. They are among the few bells in Upper Austria that survived both world wars.
literature
- August Zauner , Franz Engl , Rudolf Lessky : parish church of St. Georg Schärding am Inn. 2nd revised edition. Passavia Druck, Passau 2007.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Johann Ev. Lamprecht : Description of the kk landesfürstl. Gränzstadt Schärding am Inn and its surroundings. Wels 1860 ( Google Books online ), p. 276.
- ↑ Johann Ev. Lamprecht : Description of the kk landesfürstl. Gränzstadt Schärding am Inn and its surroundings. Wels 1860 ( Google Books online ), p. 275.
- ^ Hugo Lerch: The dispute between the Passau canon and Innbruckmaster Johann von Malenthein with the Passau cathedral chapter 1544–1549. In: Ostbairische Grenzmarken 6 (1962/1963), pp. 249–261, here pp. 250–251.
- ↑ Theodor Ebner: The anti-giant estuary. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Year 148, Linz 2003, pp. 257–284 ( PDF (2.2 MB) on ZOBODAT ), here p. 279.
- ↑ Florian Oberchristl: Bells of the Diocese of Linz. Verlag R. Pirngruber, Linz 1941, p. 486.
Coordinates: 48 ° 27 ′ 29.2 " N , 13 ° 25 ′ 51.7" E