Cemetery church hl. Michael (Rankweil)
The cemetery church of St. Michael stands in a walled cemetery on the Liebfrauenberg in the northeast of the Liebfrauenbergkirche in the market town of Rankweil in Vorarlberg . The church is a listed building .
history
The church, named in a letter of indulgence in 1300, was rebuilt in 1533 and restored from 1893 to 1894.
architecture
The church consists of a rectangular building under a gable roof, a retracted choir under a half-hip roof and an octagonal bell tower above the choir. The tower has arched sound openings and an onion hood. The pointed arch portal with round bar and valley, dated 1533, is protected by a canopy. The room is illuminated by flat arched windows with tracery and pointed arched windows. A trapezoidal ceiling spans the hall. Behind a retracted, pointed arched choir arch is the retracted two-bay choir with a 3/8 end with a ribbed vault and two pointed arched windows.
The frescoes were created in 1893/1894 by Johann Kärle and Emmanuel Walch: Saints Agnes, Aloysius and Joseph on the left, Saint Cäcilia on the right and Saints Margaretha, Magdalena, Theresia, Notburga, Gabriel, Raphael, Germania, Franziska, Klara and in the vault Juliana. On the choir arch, Christ is depicted as the judge of the world with a trumpet angel, in the nave, St. Michael and purgatory with church and pope, on the walls on the left the glory of Christ and on the right Christ with the Book of the Seven Seals with the Damned.
Furnishing
The neo-Gothic high altar bears reliefs, centered with St. Michael, on the left St. Joachim, on the right St. Anna, in the excerpt of St. Joseph, all from the late 19th century. The figures on the choir arch wall, Maria Immaculata on the left and the Sacred Heart on the right, date from the 20th century, the crucifix from the 17th century.
To the north in the choir is Franz Ammann's grave as an open niche arcade with a crucifix from the end of the 19th century.
St. Michael cemetery
The St. Michael cemetery, built in 1901, is a listed building . The cemetery is also differentiated as the lower cemetery from the upper cemetery in the courtyard of the Liebfrauenbergkirche. The neo-Gothic arcades with flat ceilings are remarkable. The entrance portal to the cemetery is provided with a pointed arch with a triangular gable and buttresses.
literature
- Dehio Vorarlberg 1983 , Rankweil, Church of St. Michael am Liebfrauenberg, Friedhof, erected in 1901, pp. 338–339.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 16 ′ 14.8 " N , 9 ° 38 ′ 46.6" E