The parish church Maria, Mutter vom Guten Rat is a Roman Catholic
church in the district of Böckstein in the municipality of Bad
Gastein in the state of Salzburg.
The church, also called the
parish church on Kirchberg, was built on a hill north of the planned
baroque factory of the center of gold mining in the Hohe Tauern.
Founded in 1766 as a vicariate, the church was consecrated in 1767.
In 1891 the church was elevated to a parish church. The church was
renovated in 1889. Restorations were from 1950 to 1951 and 1965. An
exterior restoration was in 1979, an interior restoration in 1981.
The early classicist central building with a vestibule was built
from 1764 to 1767 by master builder Christian Glaner according to
the plans of the architect and court building manager Wolfgang
Hagenauer. The octagonal central room has a rectangular portal and
windows. The also octagonal dome tower with lantern has rectangular
sound windows and clock leaves on four sides and ends with a tent
roof. The vestibule with a curved gable shows the stucco coat of
arms of Archbishop Sigismund III. Christoph von Schrattenbach. A
two-storey sacristy is added to the east.
Inside, the church
shows itself as an oval space with high round arch niches with two
pilasters with capitals in between and a surrounding richly profiled
cornice. The gallery is built into the west. The ceiling painting
was painted by Johann Weiß in 1765. In the dome it shows the
miraculous image of Genazzano carried by two angels with depictions
of the landscape and admirers of the miraculous image. The
architectural painting with cartouches shows the chronograms 1764,
1765, 1766 and 1767.
The high altar was built according to a
design by the sculptor Johann Baptist Hagenauer. The altar panel, a
copy of Genazzano's miraculous image, was painted in 1765 by Rosa
Hagenauer, née Barduzzi, in a halo, carried by two angels, with
vases and clouds and a pillar of fire. The tabernacle is from the
19th century. The side altars were made by the carpenter Leopold
Hacksteiner in 1776. On the left the altarpiece shows the Marriage
of Mary and on the right the representation in the temple. The round
pulpit with a parapet with pilasters shows reliefs of the divine
virtues, the sound cover bears a globe, the tablets of the law and
the symbols of the Gospel. The carvings and the crucifix were
created by the sculptor Kaspar Bichler in 1850.
The organ was
built by Hans Mauracher in 1895. There is a memorial stone from 1784
to Bartholomäus Zehentmayr and the coat of arms of Count Czernin
from 1905 and 1927. A bell was cast in 1766 by the Salzburg bell
caster Karl Wolfgang Gugg.