Chapel shrine Oberklien
This Roman Catholic chapel shrine Upper Klien (also called "upper Kliener shrine") is in the district Upper Klien the community Hohenems in Dornbirn in Vorarlberg . He belongs to the parish of St. Karl in Hohenems and thus to the dean's office in Dornbirn of the diocese of Feldkirch . The chapel shrine is dedicated to St. Barbara of Nicomedia , the patroness of miners . The patronage is therefore on December 4th .
location
The chapel building ( 426 m above sea level ) is in the Oberklien district of Hohenems in the "Augenquell" plot and does not have a house number. The chapel shrine is in the middle of the Oberklien district, Oberklienstrasse leads past on the right and Barbaraweg on the left. The structure is about two kilometers as the crow flies from the center of Hohenems.
history
A wayside shrine had existed here since around 1750. The wayside shrine is said to go back to a promise made by Johann Georg Huchler, who vowed to build a chapel if he could survive military service. In 1740 Johann Georg Huchler returned, received a plot of land from private sources and built the chapel shrine around 1750 with a picture of the Virgin Mary still in it today (a copy).
An inscription was placed in the chapel shrine after a rock fall in 1971. The chapel shrine was renovated in 1975.
Chapel building
The single-storey chapel shrine is a very simple stone building free-standing on all sides with a gable height of about 3 m (total height with bell ridge about 4.5 m). The chapel shrine takes up an area of around 3.5 m². It is a building with a rectangular basic shape and south-west / north-east orientation. The chapel construction differs from an ordinary wayside shrine in that it is accessible and has a relevant spatial depth as well as several motifs of various saints.
The simple door and the square, squat bell roof ridge on the gable roof with four sound openings is located to the southwest. The gable roof is covered with plain tiles and the bell ridge is hammered in with green painted sheet metal. The building itself is largely plastered in white .
The prayer room and the chancel are not separated from each other and have a fake barrel vault . There is only room for one person in the prayer room.
Furnishing
The furniture is kept simple with a painting of the miraculous Mother of God as an altarpiece in a carved, lacquered wooden frame. The inscription on the picture: “ This Mirraculosis Mother of God picture was brought here by the Honorable Ms. Maria Antonia Huchlerin drilled bread and the wayside shrine was built by the young man of honor and virtue, Antoni Huchler and the honorable John Georg Huchler, all three people in the service of your excellence Field Marshal Gratt zu HohenEmbs ”. Next to the altarpiece on the left is a statue (presumably Mary with child).
On the left side of the wall there is an inscription with the dates of the construction and renovation as well as a small crucifix . On the right side of the wall is a frameless picture depicting St. Barbara with the attributes : sword (at the feet) and chalice (in the hands) as well as the tower in the background.
The only prayer bench is made of lacquered fir wood and is not decorated with carvings.
In the bell ridge there is a bell that is rung on special occasions, at least when a resident of the Oberklien district dies.
Pilgrimage
From Feldkirch down via Hohenems - Oberklien - Unterklien - Wallenmahd - Haslach - Mühlebach a 35 km long pilgrim path leads to the path of humanity to Dornbirn to the parish church of St. Martin .
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Vorarlberg 1983 . Hohenems, wayside shrine on Barbaraweg, p. 251.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Hohenemser Gemeindeblatt, No. 19 of May 9, 1993, p. 7.
- ↑ The original can be found in the Waldburg-Zeil Collection. The copy was attached and consecrated on May 3, 1998. Paragraph quoted from: Hohenemser Gemeindeblatt, No. 19 of May 9, 1993, p. 7.
- ↑ Way of Humanity .
Coordinates: 47 ° 22 ′ 32.3 " N , 9 ° 42 ′ 29.5" E