Franz Xaverius Chapel (Lochau)

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The Franz Xaverius Chapel was a Roman Catholic church building in Lochau , Vorarlberg , Austria .

location

The church building was on Landstrasse (L1) by the guest garden of the Messmer wine taverns (built after 1886, originally Gasthaus zur Krone ) at about 415  m above sea level. A. in the center of Lochau.

history

In 1561, Hans Werner von Raitenau tried to raise the St. Oswald Chapel in the hamlet of Hofen to a parish church for Lochau and Hörbranz. The efforts were unsuccessful.

The chapel was founded in 1706 by the tax collector Georg Hagen and his wife Anna Maria (née Dörler) as well as their parents Hans Dörler and Maria (née Felder) in honor of the India missionary Franz Xaver and St. Trinity built and consecrated by the bishop in 1728. The first mass was celebrated there on February 24, 1708. In May 1708, Hans Dörler donated 200 guilders so that a weekly mass would be read in the chapel. In 1724 permission was given to consecrate the chapel. In 1832, at the expense of the retired priest Johann Peter Sohm, former chaplain in Höchst , a priest's house was built for 1346 guilders and 46 kreuzers, and the property was left free of charge by Josef Hehle. The chapel had assets of 1,257 guilders and 58 kreuzers in 1837 and around 1,700 guilders in 1849.

When the new parish church in Lochau , which is also dedicated to St. Franz-Xaver was consecrated in 1849, this chapel was profaned . This chapel is considered to be the primal cell of the development of the church's history and the center of today's village of Lochau, which was originally just one of several hamlets in the Hofrieden court .

Most of the chapel was demolished in 1913 by Mathias Messmer.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erwin Bennat: Municipal Chronicle Lochau , published by the municipality of Lochau 1986, p. 40
  2. ↑ Erwin Bennat: Gemeindechronik Lochau, published by the community of Lochau 1986, pp. 69 f, 145 ff.
  3. ↑ Erwin Bennat: Municipal Chronicle Lochau, published by the municipality of Lochau 1986, p 105, 145th
  4. ^ History 17./18. Century , website of the municipality of Lochau.
  5. ↑ Erwin Bennat: Municipal Chronicle Lochau, published by the municipality of Lochau 1986, p 92nd