Karl Borromeo Chapel (market)
The Roman Catholic Chapel of St. Charles Borromeo (also: Chapel St. Charles) is in the district market of the Austrian municipality of Hohenems in Dornbirn in Vorarlberg .
The chapel is a listed building and is dedicated to St. Charles Borromeo . 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 .
The patronage of St. Charles Borromeo is celebrated annually on November 4th. Karl Borromeo is the patron saint of Hohenems.
history
The chapel was donated by Kaspar von Hohenems in 1617 in honor of his uncle Karl Borromeo, who was canonized in 1610 . In 1770 it was redesigned by master builder Peter Bein, and the frescoes from the life of the saint, still visible today, were added. The chapel was threatened with demolition several times. Alois Math made sure that the chapel was spared demolition in 1826. The money for a restoration could be collected through a community collection. The Lourdes Grotto was established in 1888 and the statue of Our Lady was consecrated in the parish church of Hohenems on October 7, 1888 by Johann Nepomuk Zobl (* January 23, 1822 Schattwald , † September 13, 1907 in Feldkirch ), the auxiliary bishop in Brixen for Feldkirch and vicar general . Another renovation took place in 1932. The exterior and interior renovation that took place in 1955 was carried out on the initiative of the Hohenems citizens led by Peter Amann, because the chapel was threatened with demolition. An evangelical church service has been held every month since 1968. In 1988, after a fire on December 31, 1987, another interior renovation took place.
Church building
location
The church ( 435 m above sea level ) is in the district of Markt in Hohenems on the St. Karl parcel . The chapel stands in the center of the village and is easily accessible.
Building
The church is a simple stone building free-standing on all sides with a gable height of about 10 m (total height with bell ridge about 12 m). It takes up an area of 160 m 2 , the nave is about 11 m long and 9 m wide. It is a building with an approximately rectangular floor plan and an indented 3/8 choir in northeast / southwest orientation. To the northeast (altar), the outer walls are rounded.
The hexagonal bell ridge with a copper-covered onion helmet is located to the northeast above the transition from the nave to the choir. The gable roof is covered with plain tiles. Above the entrance door there is an arched window, above it a small round window. The nave has four more arched windows on each of the long sides.
To the left of the entrance door is the inscription Humilitas (humility) in the coat of arms with the coat of arms of a cardinal-archbishop, recognizable by the archbishop's lecture cross behind the coat of arms and the cardinal's hat (often scarlet in paintings) with 30 side tassels (fiocchi). Above the inscription in the escutcheon there is an open crown of leaves .
The building is largely plastered white on the outside and inside .
The prayer room and the chancel are clearly separated from each other by a relatively narrow choir arch. The two-bay prayer room is decorated with paintings from the life of St. Charles Borromeo decorated (scenes from the life of Karl Borromeo: Assassination attempt on the saint , 1589; conferment of cardinal dignity by Pope Pius IV. , 1560; visit to Hohenems , 1570; birth and death of the saint ). The glass windows have colored elements and ornaments on the edge. There is room for about 60 believers in the prayer room.
A sacristy is added to the southeast .
Furnishing
The interior is dominated by the Lourdes grotto , which was established in 1888 , with the arched windows in the choir being built in. Apart from the paintings and the grotto, the interior is kept simple.
The pews are made of lacquered fir wood and are also kept simple.
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: 6918 (see list of listed objects in Hohenems ).
- ↑ See also: Vorarlberger Nachrichten, supplement Heimat Bezirk Dornbirn of April 27, 2017, A chapel with a lot of tradition , p. 24
Coordinates: 47 ° 21 ′ 42.3 " N , 9 ° 41 ′ 14.5" E