Chapel of the Holy Trinity (Hohenems)

Chapel of St. Trinity in Hohenems - sulfur from the southwest.

This Roman Catholic chapel St. Trinity (also called "sulfur Chapel") in the district is sulfur the municipality of Hohenems in Dornbirn in Vorarlberg . It is a listed building and consecrated to the Trinity of God . She is pastorally supported by the parish church of St. Karl Borromeo in Hohenems. The chapel thus belongs to the dean's office in Dornbirn in the diocese of Feldkirch . Patronage day is the Holy Trinity .

The structure was built in 1595 and is about 2 km as the crow flies from the center of Hohenems. The chapel stands right next to the sulfur fountain and the well room and was closely related to the sulfur bath .

history

The chapel was built in 1595 by Kaspar von Hohenems (born March 1, 1573 - † September 10, 1640 ) at the request of his late father, Jakob Hannibal I von Hohenems († 1588) (see inscription in the chapel). Jakob Hannibal earmarked 300 guilders for the construction . Extensive renovations were carried out in 1845, 1925 and 1975.

Church building

Chapel from the northeast.

Spiral staircase to the gallery.

location

The church building ( 414  m above sea level ) is in the Schwefel district in Hohenems in the “Bad” plot on Römerstrasse (near Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Strasse) and bears house number 1. The chapel is on the southwestern edge of the Schwefel district .

Building

The two-storey chapel is a simple stone building free-standing on all sides with a gable height of about 10 m (total height with bell ridge about 13 m). The chapel occupies an area of ​​around 60 m² and the nave is around 8 m long and 6 m wide. It is a building with an approximately rectangular basic shape and 3/8 choir and north-west / south-east orientation. To the southeast (altar) the outer walls are sloping.

The brick staircase to the chapel on the first floor to the north-east of the outside area was laid out for the renovation in 1975. The basement, with access from the northwest, serves only as a storage room.

The simple doors are to the northeast, the square, squat bell ridge turret on the gable roof with two sound openings is to the northwest. The gable roof is covered with plain tiles and the bell ridge is hammered in with sheet copper. Above the lower entrance door to the warehouse is a round window that illuminates the gallery. The nave has three arched windows on the southwest side and one arched window on the northeast side (to the altar).

The building itself is largely plastered in white .

The prayer room and the chancel are separated from each other by a choir arch. The prayer room has a flat roof, the choir room a vault. There is space for around 30 people in the prayer room.

Furnishing

Altar.

The decor is simple with a crucifix from the 17th century and a painting, Mary with Jesus, from the 19th century. On the right side of the wall there is an inscription with the data about the builder and the time of construction etc.

The pews are made of varnished fir wood and are slightly decorated with carvings. The chapel does not have a high altar. In front of the crucifix is ​​a popular altar. Two baroque angel figures come from Erasmus Kern and were purchased in 1629.

There is a bell in the bell ridge.

Choir

The choir is a little narrower than the nave, but was structurally not drawn deeper and is architecturally very clearly separated from the nave by a relatively wide choir arch .

Stained glass window

The stained glass windows of the chapel are simple panes of glass.

Gallery with the coats of arms of the diocese of Chur, Brixen and Constance.

Gallery

There is room for more believers on the straight, real gallery . On the right hand side, a sandstone spiral staircase leads to the gallery, which dates back to the early days. On the parapet of the gallery there are three painted coats of arms of the dioceses of Chur , Brixen and Constance .

literature

• DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Vorarlberg. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7031-0585-2 .
• Gert Amann; Hugo Loacker, HOHENEMS, churches and chapels, Schnell + Steiner Verlag, Regensburg 2009, p. 22, ISBN 978-3-7954-4403-7 .
• The cross in the little sulfur church , legend about the sulfur chapel.

Web links

Commons : Schwefelkapelle (Hohenems)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gert Amann; Hugo Loacker, HOHENEMS, churches and chapels, p. 21.
2. ^ Arnulf Häfele, Peter Mathis: In the San Toni, cemetery and chapel of St. Anton in Hohenems. Bucher Verlag, Hohenems 2012, p. 110 f.
3. ↑ Vorarlberger Nachrichten of August 17, 2018, p. B2.

Coordinates: 47 ° 20 ′ 54.9 "  N , 9 ° 40 ′ 25.6"  E