Kühbruck Chapel

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Kühbruck Chapel
View from the entrance to the altar
Wayside cross in front of the chapel
Painting about the killing of the last bear living in Vorarlberg

The Roman Catholic Grade II listed chapel Kühbruck (also: Sanctuary of the Rosary in Kühbruck or chapel Kühbruck ) in the plot Kühbruck the market town of Nenzing in District Feldkirch in Vorarlberg belongs to the parish Nenzing and thus to the dean's office Walgau-Walser Valley in the diocese of Feldkirch .

The Rosary Queen is the patron saint of the pilgrimage chapel. The feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Rosary (Festum Beatae Mariae Virginis a Rosario, or Rosary Festival for short ) is celebrated in the liturgy of the Catholic Church on October 7th every year.

location

The church building (about 937  m above sea level ) is about 15 meters from the Meng , 50 meters from the Kühbruck and is quite lonely right on the Gamperdonaweg . The structure is about 10 km as the crow flies from the local community of Nenzing and about 7 km from Nenzinger Himmel.

history

In 1762 a chapel a little further above and the Kühbruck from the Meng were torn away during a flood. This chapel was called: Maria am Weißen Bach . The altarpiece was not damaged in the process and is also located in today's chapel building. At least since then, it has been viewed as a miraculous image of grace , as the altarpiece on a stone in the middle of the raging water has remained intact. Shortly after the flood event, a new chapel was built a little below the original chapel location.

According to a picture in the anteroom of the Kuhbrück chapel, the last bear living in Vorarlberg is said to have been shot here in 1783.

In 1806 today's chapel was built.

Church building

The pilgrimage church with five-eight choir and bell ridge was built in 1806 and has been renovated three times since then. The single-storey building is a stone building that is free-standing on all sides and has a rectangular basic shape with an area of ​​around 80 m² and a north-west / south-east orientation with a gable roof .

At the height of the choir, a rectangular bell roof ridge is placed on the gable roof to the southeast. Bell roof turrets and the gable roof are covered with diamond-shaped fiber cement roof tiles. The building itself is largely plastered in white .

The prayer room and the chancel are separated from each other by a choir arch. The floor is partly laid out like a chessboard with ocher yellow and dark gray, raised tiles, whereby the choir area is clearly separated from the prayer room by the choir arch and a solid metal grille.

Furnishing

altar

The baroque altar with the miraculous miraculous image from the middle of the 18th century shows the rosary queen with the baby Jesus in her arms. The farmer saints St. Martin and Eligius von Noyon (St. Loy) are depicted to the left and right .

The pews are made of spruce wood and painted medium brown. About 40 people have a seat in the chapel.

Pilgrimage chapel

The chapel is still a destination of pilgrimages several times a year. In the entrance area of ​​the chapel, next to and above the entrance door, acknowledgments are placed in various forms.

At the beginning of the First World War, pilgrimages for soldiers were organized throughout Vorarlberg . On September 10, 1914, 1250 soldiers who were drafted from the region for the war met at the Kühbruck chapel.

An annual pilgrimage goes back to a pledge in 1862, when the Gamerdonaalpe was hit by various calamities.

Bible path to Kühbruck

The wayside cross at the chapel and the 9th and last station of the Bible Path

A pilgrimage route ( biblical path) along the Gamperdonaweg to Kühbruck, to the Kühbruck chapel (Rosary Madonna) with nine stations begins at the Stellveder chapel. Bible verses that match the local conditions, mostly from the Book of Psalms , are attached to wooden panels at prominent places in nature .

Trivia

The wooden cross in Kühbruck on Gamperdonaweg by the chapel on the opposite side of the street was donated by two woodcutters who narrowly escaped death while rafting . In addition to the pilgrimage chapel, there are also large gneiss boulders , which are designated as natural monuments.

Literature and media

  • The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Vorarlberg 1983 .
  • Elmar Schallert: chapels and wayside shrines in the parish of Nenzing. 1968.

Web links

Commons : Kapelle Kühbruck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Object ID: 87986.
  2. ↑ Schott : The Complete Roman Missal , Edition 1963, p. 1076
  3. ↑ Inscription on the altarpiece.
  4. ^ History and development , website Bruno and Herbert Gantner.
  5. ↑ a b The wild and romantic Gamperdonatal , introduction - the valley - the location and development, website by Bruno and Herbert Gantner.
  6. ↑ About 13 m long, 6 m wide.
  7. ↑ Thomas Gamon: Soldiers pilgrimage to Kühbruck in Nenzing in Andreas Brugger, Werner Matt, Katrin Netter (eds.): The last years of peace and the First World War , Vorarlberger Kommunalarchive working group, Dornbirn / Egg / Schruns 2016, ISBN 978-3-901900-52 -5 , p. 127.
  8. ↑ Thomas Gamon: Soldiers pilgrimage to Kühbruck in Nenzing in Andreas Brugger, Werner Matt, Katrin Netter (eds.): The last years of peace and the First World War , Vorarlberger Kommunalarchive working group, Dornbirn / Egg / Schruns 2016, ISBN 978-3-901900-52 -5 , p. 125 ff.
  9. ↑ family reading Team of the parish Nenzing: Bibelweg of Deputy Eder to Kühbruck , texts for children.

Coordinates: 47 ° 8 '48.2 "  N , 9 ° 41' 27.7"  E