Old parish church Feldkirch-Tisis

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Old Catholic parish church hl. Michael in Feldkirch

The former Roman Catholic parish church Feldkirch-Tisis is in the district Tisis the municipality of Feldkirch in District Feldkirch in Vorarlberg . It is consecrated to St. Michael and, as a branch church of the New Feldkirch-Tisis parish church, belongs to the Feldkirch deanery in the Feldkirch diocese . The building is a listed building .

history

The church of the clustered village of Tisis, incorporated into the town of Feldkirch in 1925, was mentioned in a document in 1218, and in 1442 it was consecrated. For 1610 the ownership of a vineyard was named, which in 1696 went to the Ottobeuren monastery . The church was the mother church of the Tosters district.

Located on a hill, surrounded by a cemetery, the nave with a wider choir stands under a slightly bent gable roof. The main portal side in the west with a gable facade has a large wooden sign under a hipped roof. The church tower with a hilted gable roof stands south of the choir with an adjacent sacristy on the nave under a pent roof. There is an ossuary in the basement of the choir. On the facade there is a fresco of St. George with a dragon from the 2nd half of the 14th century. Other frescoes around 1450 show the Adoration of the Magi , the Crucifixion with Mary and John, the Resurrection, and Christophorus. On the east side of the sacristy there are frescoes with John the Baptist, Mary with Child, St. Michael, donor family and coat of arms from the 16th century.

architecture

The nave is a baroque hall with a flat ceiling over a hollow over a surrounding cornice. The round arched choir arch has been drawn in, the 5/8 choir has two bays with lancet barrel vaults. The groin vaulted sacristy with a cupboard from 1620 is connected to the sacristy via an anteroom in the tower.

Furnishing

The high altar from 1680 shows an altarpiece St. Michael, inscribed WK Dornbirn 1862. The left side altar around 1700 shows the altarpiece St. Johannes Evangelist by the painter Franz Xaver Bobleter from 1860. The right side altar analogously to the left shows the altarpiece St. Dominic with Mary and Child by Franz Xaver Bobleter from 1859. The pulpit with a bulged basket and canopy cover was made around 1790. There is a picture of Mary with the child and the 14 helpers with the battle of Tisis with an Antonius chapel in the background by Mathias Jehly from 1816.

organ

The organ was built by Martin Pflüger in 1980 .

Karner

The ossuary to the right of the cemetery entrance shows the painting Maria vom Guten Rat by the painter Leopold Scheel from 1926 in a niche.

Picture gallery

  • Frescoes in front of the entrance

  • looked through the door slot

  • Adoration fresco around 1450 (2009)

literature

Web links

Commons : Church of St. Michael (Tisis)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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).

Coordinates: 47 ° 13 ′ 38.3 "  N , 9 ° 34 ′ 19.7"  E