Sacred Heart Chapel (Ströden)
The Herz-Jesu-Kapelle is a chapel in Prägraten am Großvenediger . It is one of the 10 listed buildings in the municipality .
location
The Sacred Heart Chapel is located in the far west of the community of Prägraten am Großvenediger at the end of the Virgental. The chapel is located 1,403 meters above sea level in the hamlet of Ströden in the Hinterbichl district. In the immediate vicinity of the chapel is the Ströden parking lot, which serves as a parking lot for visitors to the Umball Falls and the surrounding mountain huts.
Building
The chapel was built in 1893 by Lenz and Lois Raffer and consecrated in 1895. The simple chapel building over a rectangular floor plan with a slightly indented round choir has a steep, shingle-covered gable roof over a hollow. The tower of the chapel is a wooden gable turret with arched sound windows and a curved tent roof crowned by a ball and cross. The side walls are pierced by two arched windows. In the west facade there is a rectangular portal as a church entrance, two small viewing windows, an arched window above the portal and an arched opening in the gable field. In the nave is a high barrel vault over a profiled cornice. The choir has been increased by one level. The flooring consists of black, red and gray stone slabs that are laid in a diamond pattern. The decorative painting was done in 1893 by Josef Weiskopf.
The interior of the chapel is dominated by a neo-Gothic altar with a cimborium-like shrine with a Sacred Heart, flanked by statues of Saints Leopold and Stephanus. In the cafeteria there is a stone cross and six romanized candlesticks. Other furnishings in the chapel include: a chest of drawers with a cupboard and a one-door cupboard from 1895, the wooden prayer stalls, colored prints from the end of the 19th century as Stations of the Cross as well as a Holy Spirit dove, a lecture cross, a standing cross , a statue of the baby Jesus and various votive pictures, two bells in the tower.
literature
- Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): The art monuments of the political district of Lienz. Part III. Iseltal, Defereggental, Kalsertal, Virgental. Verlag Berger, Horn 2007, ISBN 978-3-85028-448-6 . (Austrian Art Topography, Volume LVII)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Tyrol - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from October 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), ( CSV ( Memento from October 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive )). Federal Monuments Office , as of June 8, 2017.
Coordinates: 47 ° 0 ′ 57.7 " N , 12 ° 19 ′ 13.7" E