Johanniterkirche (Feldkirch)
The Johanniterkirche is in the town of Feldkirch at Marktgasse 1. The building is now an exhibition center for the town of Feldkirch for contemporary art .
history
In 1218 Pope Honorius III asked . from Count Hugo von Montfort a participation in the crusade. The count gave the Order of St. John a hospice at Marktgasse 1.
After the Johanniter gave up the hospice, the hospice remained the church, which was destroyed in March 1799 - see also the Veitskapf war memorial - in the Napoleonic Wars. The church became a stable or a salt store. In the middle of the 19th century the Jesuits took over the house of God, and the three altars date from this time.
There have been excavations by the Federal Monuments Office . They searched for the grave of Count Hugo von Montfort, which was not found.
The purpose of using it as an exhibition center for contemporary art is to hold four exhibitions a year - two with local artists, two with international artists. Eva Jakob was appointed curator.
Johanniterkirche
The building, built in the core in the 15th to 16th century, has the Marktgasse the gable end of a gable roof , in Johannitergasse of town a hipped roof . The inside of the ceiling shows a frescoed round medallion Sigillum refugii with an oath hand and the year 1405.
literature
- Gert Ammann u. a .: Vorarlberg. Feldkirch. Secular buildings. Marktgasse 1. Johanniterhof ( The art monuments of Austria ). Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7031-0585-2 , p. 201.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ City of Feldkirch with information on the Johanniterkirche Feldkirch
- ^ Dehio: Vorarlberg: 1983; ISBN 978-3-85028-397-7
Coordinates: 47 ° 14 ′ 11 " N , 9 ° 35 ′ 48.5" E