Steinberg am Rofan

Steinberg am Achensee is a municipality with 299 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district Schwaz, Tyrol ( Austria ). The municipality is located in the judicial district of Schwaz.

Geography

Steinberg is a small remote scattered settlements on Rofangebirge. The village is about a 10 km road from Achenkirch ( in Achen valley located ) reachable. Already in the 8th century resident there, the inhabitants lived for centuries of livestock and wood income for the Jenbacher smelters and Haller saline. The wood was drifting down the stream to the Brandenberger Ache.

Today, Steinberg is a scenic and hiking area in a quiet and unspoilt area.

Culture and sights

Parish Church

Baiuvarii refugees are reversible upon cessation of the Bavarian duke Tassilo III. End of the 8th century before the strict regiment of Frankish overseers to the south be evaded in impassable mountain valleys. Also possible and more likely is that the first settlers from the area Breitenbach, perhaps driven by the zeal of the first Irish- Celtic missionary messengers, have advanced eastward into the deep valleys.

We are informed in detail by records from the 15th century through the first church consecration in Steinberg. After a non- sealed piece of parchment in size 29.5 x 15.4 cm, although this is to be regarded only as a note, without documentary character, the first Steinberger Church on June 17, 1188 was by Bishop Henry III. the Holy Lambert ordained of Brixen. This piece of parchment is currently the Provincial Archives Innsbruck, Title II 8649th

Order or after the year 1000, the Counts of Aribo of them donated Benedictine Seeon, located in Upper Bavaria ( 944-1803 ), the land in the mountains (including Steinberg ). In fact, the Seeon exercised the basic rule in Steinberg until its abolition in 1803. The counts of Aribo worshiped the Holy Lambert as their patron saint. The Benedictine Abbey Seeon was also dedicated to Saint Lambert. This explains the choice of the martyr bishop Lambert Church as patron of the church of Steinberg. Steinberg then belonged to the diocese of Freising. It was mitprovidiert of Breitenbach.

In 1157 Breitenbach by Bishop Otto of Freising the collegiate St. Andrew was passed in Freising. In the year 1305 the three branch churches of Breitenbach Voldöpp, Brandenberg and Steinberg are mentioned in a description of the Deanery Aibling. 1315 seems Steinberg on the matriculation of the Bishop of Freising. In this so-called Freising matriculation should also, as stated in one source, have been confirmed the cemetery law for Steinberg. So it can be assumed as certain that Steinberg has had a cemetery right from the start and did not get this right until 1711.

1419 began the construction of a new church, which was also dedicated in 1434 to the Holy Lambert. According to the time it may have been a church in the Gothic style, while at least a small Romanesque church tower is previously detectable. Two walled Romanesque windows inside the church tower indicate.

1482 Holy Mass was instituted. It is probably here to monthly Providierung, which took place from the mother parish Breitenbach ago. In 1651, the foundation of Jaudenmesse happened. 1681 was built at the Church of Steinberg. In the church accounts seem 1682-1685 expenditure for this work on. 1711 had Steinberg in the person of Franz Michael Baumann own vicar. 1718 approved the monastery of St. Andrae Freising the establishment of a curator because of the Hintnerschen Foundation.

From 1715 to 1719 the reconstruction of the church was in its present outer shape. 1737, the renovation of the church was completed in Baroque style. The baroque church was restored in 1827.

1818 Steinberg came to the Archdiocese of Salzburg. For parish Steinberg was raised in 1891.

More renovations of the church occurred in 1953 and 1963 inside the church. The last exterior renovations were 1978/79 and 1987 / 88th The renovation of the cemetery wall was made in 1984. On 21 October 1984, the people's altar was benediziert. 1999, the cemetery was extended generous. Oswald Agreiter presented the basic charge. The Kirchenvorhaus was completely renovated in 2003.

In today's Baroque hall church in once Gothic core is easily recognizable. Stucco and ceiling frescoes were created in 1737 by unknown masters. The frescoes in the chancel and the nave represent: the glorification of Mary, the worship of the angels before the Holy Spirit, the Baptism of Christ, Saint George and the Holy Family.

The high altar dates from the period around 1740, also of the tabernacle with the victims of Isaac, and of Melchizedek. The high altarpiece painted Jakob Mayr in 1737. It shows the crowned Virgin with the Child Jesus, the Holy Martyr Lambert ( patron ) and St. James the Elder. The statues on the altar represent the St. Roch and St. Sebastian (1740 ), as well as the saints Joachim and Saint Joseph ( 1680 ) represents the side altars left and right are frames and altars were created in 1750.

On the left side altar is an image of Our Lady of Sorrows, painted in oil on copper. It was in 1829, given by the Pertisau fisherwoman Eva Brandlin, the then Pfarrprovisor Steinberg Michael Harter. This side altar crowns a rare representation of the Holy Trinities in three persons of the 17th century. On the right side altar is a painting of St. Francis Xavier, an oil painting by Maria Anna Moser from Schwaz, painted 1790. Above is there is a rare depiction of the Holy Mother of Anna, of St. Elizabeth with John the Baptist as a child ( circa 1750 ) down the Holy Notburgastraße, a reverse glass painting, also painted in 1790 by Maria Anna Moser from Schwaz.

Statues depicting the Holy Leonhard, patron of farmers, and Saint Vincent, patron of the Woodcutter ( 1750 ) and St. John Nepomuk ( 1800 ). The pulpit is decorated with images of Christ and the four evangelists. The pictures on the pulpit probably date from the Gothic period. In the church tower hang three bells valuable. They were cast by Mattheis Herer in Jenbach and 1484 by Heinrich Kessler 1498 and 1499. A bell from 1497 had to be probably delivered in the winter of 1917 during the First World War. It was in 1924 replaced by the former bell. This was purchased by the parish Wiesing.

Neighboring communities

Achenkirch, Brandenberg, Eben am Achensee, Kramsach, Münster

Personalities

• Richard Agreiter ( born 1941 ), sculptor, lives and works in Steinberg am Achensee