Barbara Chapel (Payerbach)
The Barbarakapelle is a chapel in the open field in the cadastral municipality of Küb, which belongs to the Lower Austrian municipality of Payerbach, and is a listed building .
history
The Barbarakapelle was built in 1916 as a garrison chapel for the Austro-Hungarian Mountain Artillery Regiment No. 2 established in 1915 in what was then the Payerbach barracks, today's address at Wienerstrasse 34, by the architect M. Bradaczek, who served as the Austro-Hungarian Lieutenant of the Reserve. The inauguration of the chapel took place on August 18, 1916, the 86th and last birthday of Emperor Franz Joseph I. On August 17, 1917 and 1918, masses were held in the presence of Emperor Karl I and his wife Zita .
The Kaiser celebrated his 30th and 31st birthday on these days; For these so-called "imperial masses", Zita donated her own Barbara's goblet in 1918. At the renewed inauguration on August 17, 1917, the Apostolic Field Vicar Bishop Emmerich Bjelik was present. After the regiment was disbanded, there was a brief risk of demolition of the chapel, which was no longer used. For this reason, in the spring of 1922, the Payerbach parish asked the Federal Ministry of the Army to remove the wooden chapel and put it back in another location in the parish. In mid-June 1922, the chapel was handed over to the parish Payerbach free of charge and Küb, a popular summer resort at the time , was chosen as the place to be rebuilt. In the middle of the following month, a building committee was formed from several Küber house owners, and the municipal councilor Josef Rienzner took over the management. After the two landowners, postal administrator Alois Lechner and the couple Mathias and Anna Schober, ceded their land against servitude law , the chapel was to be rebuilt here. Due to the wet autumn weather in 1922, the rebuilding was delayed again and again, which is why the chapel could only be erected after several months of working.
After it was rebuilt, two marble tablets were dedicated to the “Warrior Memorial Chapel” by builder Guido Gröger and Ing. Hugo Dienzl in order to preserve the names of the fallen soldiers in Küb for posterity. The chapel was consecrated again on August 19, 1923. The solemn inauguration of the Barbara Chapel was carried out by the Payerbach pastor Ferdinand Haas with the assistance of the priest candidates Ernst Kafko and Johann Lanner. The latter was the son of the kk chamber zither player Hans Lanner (1873–1964) from Scheiterplatz. Subsequently, a fund for the preservation of the Barbarakapelle was set up, the first major income from which was a concert in the Hotel Kastell Küb . In 1936 Cardinal Theodor Innitzer visited the chapel on the occasion of the visitation . Six years later the bronze bell was removed for war purposes. Extensive renovation work was carried out in 1952 and 1980, and in recent decades the local resident Rosa Weinzettl has made a name for herself in maintaining and caring for the chapel.
In August 1993, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the transmission to Küb, a festive service took place, at which a department of the federal army was also present, and at which the electric bell was blessed. After the DVV Küb carried out the necessary maintenance work on the chapel and redesigned the area in front of the chapel in 2011 , the 90th anniversary of the transfer of the chapel to Küb took place on August 17, 2013.
Furnishing
Inside the wooden chapel there is, among other things, an altarpiece of St. Barbara, the patron saint of the Payerbach mountain artillery regiment, painted in a contemporary style , in front of the rocky backdrop of the Vajolet towers in South Tyrol . Furthermore, a marble plaque indicates the transfer of the chapel and the subsequent consecration. A marble plaque placed exactly opposite commemorates seven men from Küb who died in the First World War . In addition to the panels and the altarpiece, figures of saints and other pictures are placed inside the chapel.
literature
- Grüß Gott in Payerbach - News from the Parish Payerbach - 3/13 - Autumn / Thanksgiving 2013 (p. 4–5)
Web links
- The Barbarakapelle on the official website of Payerbach
- Christoph Rella, Barbara Chapel in Küb . In: Grüß Gott. Parish gazette of the parish association in the Rax area, spring 2020, issue 6 , page 9 (PDF document, accessed on May 30, 2020).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thanks to the “good soul” of the Küber Barbara Chapel , accessed on March 5, 2017
Coordinates: 47 ° 40 ′ 51 ″ N , 15 ° 52 ′ 51 ″ E