St. Antonius Chapel (Lustenau)
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The St. Antonius Chapel is a Roman Catholic chapel in the Austrian market town of Lustenau . It is consecrated to Saint Anthony of Padua and belongs to the parish Hasenfeld in the dean's office in Dornbirn in the diocese of Feldkirch . The building is a listed building .
location
The St. Antonius Chapel stands at the southern end of the historic Wiesenrain plot , which today belongs to the Hasenfeld district. There is a small forecourt between the chapel and the St.-Antonius-Straße named after it, behind the building the Grindel Canal passes.
history
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Towards the end of the 19th century, in the southern part of Lustenau, the desire for their own place of worship arose, and in 1897 the residents of the Wiesenrain plot, which at that time was still isolated from the rest of Lustenau, decided to build a chapel in honor of Saint Anthony of Padua. In the years that followed, the building was built mainly through the compulsory labor of the residents and financed by donations. In 1901, Dean Thomas Hagen inaugurated the chapel. The original mass regulations already included the possibility that this chapel could later become a parish church. However, this was never implemented, and only in 1977 did the southern part of Lustenau have at least its own parish church, the Guthirtenkirche .
During a renovation in 1937, the exterior plaster was renewed.
Between 1994 and 1995 the St. Antonius Chapel was extensively renovated, and the altar, ambo, tabernacle and holy water basin were also replaced.
In the course of sewer work, the forecourt was redesigned in 2014 and moved across the adjacent St.-Antonius-Straße.
architecture
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Exterior description
The chapel is a rectangular building under a gable roof . Above the choir is a bell tower with a pointed helmet . To the north and south, sacristy extensions adjoin the choir. The nave is divided by wall pilasters and arched windows. In front of the arched portal is an open sign with a gable roof. Above the portal roof are two arched windows and above them a circular window. To the right of the portal is another small window through which the offering box is accessible from the outside.
Inside description
The prayer room is divided into three bays. Above the church there is groin vault , which rests on bevelled consoles . A retracted round arched choir arch separates the nave from the single -bay square choir with groined vaults. In the west is a wooden gallery.
Furnishing
Principals
Folk altar , ambo , tabernacle and holy water basin were created as an ensemble from the elements stone and metal as part of the renovation in 1994/95 by the artist Gernot Riedmann, who lives in Lustenau. While the roughly hewn stone embodies the material, the steel, as the spiritual achievement of mankind , symbolizes the creative power in general, which is attributed to God . The stone slab of the altar table, which rests on three steel plates, symbolizes the world that is supported by the spiritual power of God. In the case of the ambo, conversely, a steel plate is supported by three stone slabs, which indicates the interaction of matter and spirit in a cosmic unit. The interplay of stone and metal - matter and spirit - is also continued in the tabernacle in the form of a stone slab with an inlaid metal cross and in the holy water basin as a stone held by metal struts.
The two side altars are neo-Gothic niche structures from 1901 with four columns each. On the left there is a statue of the Virgin and Child, on the right a figure of St. Jude Thaddäus .
Sculptures
The sculpture Der Auferstehende , created by Adi Holzer , stands on the back wall of the chancel. The bronze sculpture, inaugurated in 1998, symbolizes the crucifixion and the resurrection at the same time , with the body already detached from the cross placing the emphasis on the resurrection. The transition of the colors from green to gold symbolizes the change from tortured body to eternal life . At the foot of the cross there is a relief of a skull , above it is a golden triangle on top, tied into an incised cross, a sign of rebirth in Eastern mythology . The opposite pole is the triangle lying on an edge behind the head of the resurrected one with the halo . Finally, the leaves on the arms of the cross symbolize both divine love and the stigmata and also point to the tree of life.
In the back of the chapel, a statue of St. Gerhard Majella is placed on the left side wall .
window
The window in the choir, which depicts St. Anthony of Padua, was donated by Fanny Rein, née Hollenstein, from Dornbirn and made by the Tyrolean glass painting company .
The glass windows in the nave were designed by the artist Leonhard Schnitzler and made in the Dornbirn glass painting workshop. At the front are two more elaborately designed windows, on the left Mary with the child and on the right Jesus as the Good Shepherd . The remaining four side arched windows are decorative windows with an abstract pattern, they show the Heart of Mary in the middle on the left and the Heart of Jesus on the right as well as a chalice on the left and a monstrance on the right at the top of the window.
Volksgestuhl
The Volksgestühl consists of seven rows of benches, each with space for four people on the left and right, making a total of 56 chapel visitors. The St. Antonius Chapel is Lustenau's chapel with the largest capacity.
organ
The organ was donated by Theresia König, widow after Lambert König.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Vorarlberg - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from May 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 26, 2015 (PDF).
- ↑ Wolfgang Scheffknecht: 100 years market town Lustenau . Lustenau 2003, ISBN 3-900954-06-2 , pp. 357 .
- ^ A b Hugo Schnell, Gebhard Baldauf: The churches of Lustenau / Vorarlberg . Ed .: Verlag der Kleine Deutschen Kirchenführer Dr. Schnell & Dr. Steiner. Munich 1939, p. 15 .
- ^ Parish Hasenfeld (ed.): Sculptural message . Information flyer on the St. Antonius Chapel.
- ↑ Kappilifäscht St. Anthony's Chapel on Sunday 15 June. Market town of Lustenau, accessed on October 8, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c d e Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio-Handbuch Vorarlberg . Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85028-397-7 , p. 304 .
- ^ Gernot Riedmann: Sculptural message . Information flyer on the St. Antonius Chapel. Ed .: Parish Hasenfeld. The sanctuary.
- ^ Parish Hasenfeld (ed.): Sculptural message . Information flyer on the St. Antonius Chapel. The resurrected one (notes from discussions between Adi Holzer and the renovation committee).
Coordinates: 47 ° 24 ′ 30.5 ″ N , 9 ° 39 ′ 33.5 ″ E