Chapel of St. Josef (Hohenems)
The Roman Catholic Chapel of St. Josef is in the district under Klien the community Hohenems in Dornbirn in Vorarlberg . It is a listed building and dedicated to St. Joseph . She is pastoral care of the parish church Hohenems-St. Karl Borromeo in Hohenems. The chapel thus belongs to the dean's office in Dornbirn in the diocese of Feldkirch .
history
At the end of the 19th century, the workforce of the Unterklien quarry had more people than the resident population of the entire district of Unterklien in Hohenems due to the activities of the international Rhine regulation . The quarry supervisor and master bricklayer Josef Stadelwieser decided in 1898 to build a chapel for the workers, and the chapel was donated and built by him in 1898/1899.
The current operator of the quarry, the Rhomberg company, still holds a mass on December 4th every year in honor of St. Barbara , the patron saint of miners.
Church building
location
The church building ( 430 m above sea level ) is in the district of Unterklien in Hohenems in the "Krüzbüchl" plot of land (Kreuz büchel ). The chapel stands on the southwestern edge of Unterklien. The structure is about 3 km as the crow flies from the center of Hohenems and about 500 m from the nearby quarry.
Building
The church is a simple stone building free-standing on all sides with a gable height of about 7 m (total height with bell ridge about 12 m). The chapel occupies an area of 70 m 2 and the nave is about 6 m long and 5 m wide. It is a building with an approximately rectangular basic shape and an indented 3/8 choir in north-west / south-east orientation. To the southeast (altar) the outer walls are sloping.
The well-crafted, stable doors and the square bell ridge on the gable roof are to the northwest. The gable roof is covered with fiber cement panels and the bell ridge is hammered in with copper sheet. Above the entrance door there is a round window with a sandstone frame and a colorful glass rosette. The nave has two arched windows each.
The building itself is largely plastered white on the outside, white on the inside and in earth tones.
The prayer room and the chancel are separated from each other by a choir arch. The two-bay prayer room has a lancet vault. In the facade there are glass windows with colored elements on the edge. There is room for about 30 believers in the prayer room.
A sacristy is built on the left (to the northeast).
Furnishing
The interior is kept simple with a crucifix and two statues, the Immaculate and St. Josef at the choir arch. All three items come from the time it was built. In the chancel on the right there is a modern statue of St. Barbara.
The pews are made of lacquered fir wood and are kept simple. The chapel does not have a high altar. In front of the crucifix is a folk altar with a carved and painted face.
Choir
The choir is slightly narrower than the nave and is structurally drawn deeper and is architecturally clearly separated from the nave by a relatively wide choir arch .
Pilgrimage
From Feldkirch down via Hohenems - Oberklien - Unterklien - Wallenmahd - Haslach - Mühlebach a 35 km long pilgrim path ( path of humanity ) leads to Dornbirn to the parish church of St. Martin .
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 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ ObjektID: 6739 (see list of listed objects in Hohenems ).
- ↑ Gert Amann; Hugo Loacker, HOHENEMS, churches and chapels, p. 22.
- ↑ Chronicle of the Hohenems-Unterklien quarry , p. 10.
- ↑ Way of Humanity .
Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '48.1 " N , 9 ° 42' 47.4" E