Guthirtenkirche (Lustenau)
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The parish church of the Good Shepherd ( Guthirtenkirche in common parlance ) is the youngest of the three Roman Catholic parish churches in the Austrian market town of Lustenau . The associated parish Lustenau-Hasenfeld belongs to the dean's office in Dornbirn in the diocese of Feldkirch . The church with the attached parish center is a listed building .
location
The Guthirtenkirche is located in the Hasenfeld district of the Lustenau community. The parish hall is integrated into the building northeast of the church. A hexagonal forecourt is enclosed by the church in the southeast, the parish apartments in the southwest and the street in the north. To the west of the complex is the Hasenfeldpark, a small green area. Together with the Hasenfeld senior citizens' house to the south and the kindergarten, elementary school, middle school and gymnasium buildings to the north on the other side of the street, the church forms the core of this new district that was created in the 1960s and 1970s.
There is no cemetery attached to the Guthirtenkirche. The community cemetery is about 400 m south.
history
As early as 1897, the initiative to build a chapel in honor of Saint Anthony of Padua arose in the southernmost parcel of Wiesenrain in the south of Lustenau , which when it was consecrated in 1901 was viewed as the nucleus of a future parish of its own.
When it became clear in 1962 that a rapidly growing part of the town was emerging in Hasenfeld with a new elementary school and a planned new retirement home, the pastor of Lustenau-Kirchdorf, Alfred Salzgeber , suggested setting up his own parish in Hasenfeld. His successor Dietmar Seeger appointed a church building committee in 1968. The project by the Graz architect Heinrich Tritthart was selected from 21 submissions to an ideas competition . On January 24, 1972, the diocese issued the building permit for the new church, and Rudolf Bishop, who was appointed chaplain in the church village in autumn 1972, was given the task of promoting the construction of the church and the attached parish center. House collections, a large building block campaign, a church building lottery and several second-hand markets as well as a nationwide letter campaign helped to secure the financing of the project. Construction began in June 1973, and Bishop Bruno Wechner celebrated the inauguration of the foundation stone on December 16 of this year .
The first fair was celebrated at Christmas 1974 in the shell on the beer benches of the Lustenauer Brewery Wieser. Regular Sunday and public holiday services have been held since Easter Week in 1976. In 1978 and 1979 the rectory was built and the forecourt was designed, and the sanctuary was set up at the same time. On September 9, 1979, the Church of the Good Shepherds was consecrated by Bishop Bruno Wechner .
In 1987 the long-time parish vicar Rudolf Bischof donated a new altarpiece and the stations of the cross. In 1994 and 1995 the flat roofs of all parish buildings had to be completely renovated and the carpeting in the church and parish hall had to be replaced. A conversion of the side chapel into a working day chapel, initiated in 2003, has been postponed indefinitely.
architecture
Exterior description
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The Guthirtenkirche is a central building with a hexagonal floor plan. The parish hall, which is connected to the left by a connecting wing, also has the shape of a regular hexagon. A side chapel and a sacristy are built to the right of the church, followed by the parish apartments in a separate, elongated building, separated by a passage. With the side wings on both sides, the church hall symbolically spreads two open arms around the also hexagonal church square.
The church and parish hall are made of 45 cm thick, double-shell reinforced concrete elements with intermediate stiffening ribs and intermediate thermal insulation and covered with a flat roof as a warm foil roof with a fill of gravel. The flat residential wing consists of load-bearing brickwork. All three wings have an exposed aggregate concrete facade made of broken Jura marble .
Instead of a church tower, a large wooden cross was erected, it stands on the foundation for a bell carrier that was never built. There is a fountain next to the entrance to the church. The palisade fence , which shields the church square from the street, makes the building complex a closed complex.
Inside description
The parish hall with youth rooms and kitchen can be reached via a triangular vestibule on the left and the church room on the right. On the right side of the church there is a side chapel , which can also be entered through a separate entrance. All of these rooms have exposed aggregate concrete walls made of broken Jura marble on the inside, the parish apartments are plastered on the inside .
The roof construction of the church hall made of bull's blood-colored steel pipes and star-shaped connecting elements under a wooden coffered ceiling symbolizes the parish, which “carries” the church in its interaction. When the masses were still being celebrated in the shell, several visitors expressed the opinion that the church would “come out neatly” once the scaffolding on the ceiling was removed.
The altar is placed in the middle of the church, the benches are arranged in a semicircle around it. The floor slopes evenly towards the altar. In order to emphasize the simplicity, there are no church windows on the walls. The surrounding window skylights on the ceiling and the soft carpeting together create a warm atmosphere.
Furnishing
Principals
The altar , ambo and tabernacle were designed in 1979 by the Viennese artist Zbyněk Sekal and consist of brass plates nailed to wooden frames. All three repeat the symbol of the open arms that is already present in the building architecture; thousands of brass nails symbolize the suffering of Jesus Christ and that of the people. The altar also has an intricately designed interior that houses a relic of St. Pirminius .
The font in the side chapel was designed in 2003 by the Lustenau artist Markus Grabher. It is a transparent glass cube into which the godparents fill a bowl with sand at each baptism so that the visible shape of the baptismal font, which continues to grow, is only formed in the course of the year.
Paintings and sculptures
The altarpiece is a three-leaf oil painting depicting various biblical meal stories. The left wing shows Abraham's meal with the three strangers and the Exodus meal , the larger middle section shows stories from the New Testament and the right wing shows scenes from the Acts of the Apostles .
The Stations of the Cross are framed at the beginning and at the end of two pictures showing Jesus as the Good Shepherd. All paintings are by the Polish artist Jan January Janczak .
The baroque statue of the Madonna with child dates from around 1780 and was made in the area around Montecassino . The crucifix in the side chapel from the second half of the 18th century was a gift from the diocese of Feldkirch on the occasion of the parish elevation in 1988. A Sacred Heart statue is attached to a pillar of the organ , and in the anteroom of the church is a statue depicting Jesus as Represents Good Shepherd.
window
The only colored windows of the Guthirtenkirche are in the side chapel. They were also designed by Jan Janczak and are divided into two parts. The window on the left shows Adam and Eve in Paradise above and a richly filled basket of fruit below, the one on the right shows the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan and below a pair of lovers with a violinist and above them an angel holding a corpse - a sign of being welcomed death. The windows were made in Wil , Switzerland . The glass was mouth-blown, then leveled and connected with lead elements. Due to this special manufacturing technique, fine air inclusions can be seen.
organ
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When planning the church, the prevailing opinion was that future technical systems would make organ music superfluous, so a gallery and an organ were dispensed with. The opinion soon changed, however, and an instrument was ordered from the Vorarlberg organ builder Christoph Enzenhofer , which Bishop Bruno Wechner inaugurated on October 19, 1986.
Pastoral care
The Guthirtenkirche was initially a branch church of the parish church of St. Peter and Paul. A parish vicariate was set up with effect from January 1, 1977, and on January 30, Rudolf Bishop, who was previously responsible for the new church as chaplain of the mother parish, was appointed vicar. With his affable and charismatic manner, Bishop proved to be a driving force behind the development of the parish. The popular priest was able to establish an active parish and often attracted visitors from other parishes to the Good Shepherd Church.
When Rudolf Bischof was appointed to the vice rain of the Innsbruck seminary, Wilhelm Schwärzler succeeded him on September 12, 1987. A year later, on August 31, 1988, the parish vicariate was raised to the status of an independent parish. Pastor Schwärzler resigned from his office in July 2005, and Anton Lässer succeeded him as parish provisional on September 1st. In September 2007 the former chaplain of Götzis and Altach , Anton Cobzariu, became the parish moderator in Hasenfeld.
literature
- Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio-Handbuch Vorarlberg . Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85028-397-7 , p. 303 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Vorarlberg - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from June 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 21, 2016 (PDF).
- ↑ a b c d e Wolfgang Scheffknecht: 100 years market town of Lustenau . Lustenau 2003, ISBN 3-900954-06-2 , pp. 357 .
- ↑ a b c Chronicle. (No longer available online.) Parish Zum Guten Hirten Lustenau-Hasenfeld, archived from the original on February 18, 2015 ; accessed on May 22, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ A b c d e f g Johann Hofer: Catholic church building in Vorarlberg from 1945–1999 . Dissertation at the Institute for Art History at the Leopold-Franzens University Innsbruck. Innsbruck December 1999, p. 254-267 .
- ↑ a b c d e architecture. (No longer available online.) Parish Zum Guten Hirten Lustenau-Hasenfeld, formerly in the original ; accessed on May 22, 2015 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Architecture - thoughts on the design of the chancel. (No longer available online.) Parish of Zum Guten Hirten Lustenau-Hasenfeld, archived from the original on November 25, 2015 ; accessed on May 22, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Architecture - The active font. (No longer available online.) Parish of Zum Guten Hirten Lustenau-Hasenfeld, archived from the original on November 25, 2015 ; accessed on May 22, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 47 ° 24 ′ 56.7 " N , 9 ° 39 ′ 30.9" E