Chapel of St. Theresia in Schwarzenberg
The Roman Catholic Chapel of St. Theresia in Schwarzenberg is in plot Ratzen in the municipality of Schwarzenberg in the district of Bregenz in Vorarlberg . It is consecrated to Therese von Lisieux (popularly known as little Theresa ) and belongs to the parish church of Schwarzenberg and thus to the dean's office in Hinterwald in the diocese of Feldkirch . The building from 1932 is a listed building . The chapel (approx. 765 m above sea level)) is located about 2.3 km from the center of Schwarzenberg on Lorenastraße.
history
The Theresienkapelle was built on the basis of a vow by local farmers . If the foot-and-mouth disease, which was rampant at that time, does not reach and damage them, a chapel will be built.
The chapel was consecrated on July 31, 1932 by Bishop Sigismund Waitz (1864–1941). The 1934 patronage speech was given by Carl Lampert .
Church building
It is a building with an approximately rectangular basic shape and east-west orientation with a far extended roof over the main entrance. The gable roof with two small dormer windows , the mining and valley side is, with Eternit - shingles and the bell roof skylights with cupola covered in "onion dome" with copper. The bell ridge is to the east, the attached sacristy and the altar to the west.
The building was planned by architect F. Fuchsberger from Munich . The chapel building is about 13 meters long with the porch, about 6.5 meters wide and 8 meters high without the sacristy (without bell ridge turrets). The foundation is made of rubble stones, the walls are shingled with wooden shingles . About 30 people can be seated in the chapel and about ten on the gallery. The main entrance on the east side is through a wooden door.
In the interior, the shape of the ceiling of the chapel is similar to that of a ship's hull.
Furnishing
The interior of the chapel has not been changed since 1932. The exposure takes place through seven windows with slug panes , another, triangular window above the altar (similar to the Eye of Providence ) and artificial lighting. The altar area is separated from the nave by two steps (no choir arch). The floor of the chapel is covered with natural stone slabs.
On the altarpiece is the crowned Mother of God with the Infant Jesus and St. Therese von Lisieux depicted. It is also the announcement of St. Theresa pictured, when she goes to heaven, she will scatter roses on the earth. The altarpiece was painted by the Benedictine sister Dorothea Brockmann from Munich.
The tabernacle , the depiction of the four evangelists under the altarpiece and the crucifixion group in the roof area between the chancel and the nave were created by the sculptor Kaspar Albrecht (1889–1970) from Au , Rehmen.
The people's altar was made by Franz Metzler, probably before 1982.
On the gallery there are pictures of the Twelve Apostles , on the gallery there is a small electric house organ.
The second bell in the bell ridge was made in 2006 by the Grassmayr bell foundry in Innsbruck . She is the St. Martin consecrated.
Chapel cooperative
The chapel was built by a chapel cooperative of farmers and craftsmen living on the Enethalb and is preserved by the chapel community to this day. Jakob Franz Greber is currently chairman of the chapel cooperative.
Trivia
About the chapel of St. Theresia in Schwarzenberg has her own song.
Way of the Cross
At the northern end of the district of Freien (along the Tobel and Ratzen streets ) a way of the cross begins, which was newly created by Gerhard Winkler with a total of 15 stations. Each of the pictures of the Stations of the Cross is enclosed in bulletproof glass and provided with gold leaf and an eye, in the sense of: we have seen it . Some of the representations were explained by Gerhard Winkler: On the first station (I) you can see the washing of hands in innocence and a broken rod as a symbol for the judgment of the judge. The dry tree in the fourth station (IIII) means: in the last resort defoliated like a dry tree . On the fifth station (V) the loneliness of people is shown, fellow men who help to carry a cross. On the sixth station (VI) the depiction of the handkerchief reminds of the artist's very important honorary position . On the seventh station (VII) the grimace of sin can be seen in the sense of: what is Jesus suffering? The eighth station (VIII) shows children's heads in the sense of: You women of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for you and your children! The ninth station (IX) is intended to give hope and also point to the violence in the present ( barbed wire ). The dice in the tenth station (X) are supposed to remind of the soldiers playing under the cross about the belongings of Jesus. The eleventh station (XI) is intended to remind people that people are still symbolically nailed to the cross today. The twelfth station is intended to commemorate the suffering of Christ. The fifteenth station (XV) in the chapel is divided into two pictures. One picture shows Noah's Ark as a symbol of faith and the Church. The dove with the palm branch hope. The second picture shows the risen Christ with the wounds . The colored circle at the bottom right represents the stone that closed the grave.
literature
- DEHIO-Handbuch, Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs: Vorarlberg , Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7031-0585-2 .
- Gerhard Winkler: The stations of the cross in Schwarzenberg , Bucher Verlag, Hohenems 2007, ISBN 978-3-902525-70-3
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vis-à-vis the residential and farm building Ratzen 178 .
- ↑ Listed property ID: 1373.
- ↑ Compare 1 John 1: 3 and 1 John 4:14.
- ↑ Inspection of the station of the cross on April 12, 2019.
- ↑ Luke 23: 27-28.
Coordinates: 47 ° 25 ′ 31.1 ″ N , 9 ° 51 ′ 12.5 ″ E