Kuratienkirche Meschach
The Meschacher Wolfgangskirche is a Roman Catholic Kuratienkirche in the district of Meschach am Götznerberg in the market town of Götzis .
The previous church, officially built in 1463 and consecrated in 1548 as a branch church by Götzis, was elevated to the position of Expositur church in 1820 and enlarged in the years 1865 to 1866. After the demolition, the current church was built between 1881 and 1883 according to the plans of the architect Karl Holzhammer under the builder Fidel Kröner and consecrated in 1891.
The church has a nave and a retracted choir, both with covered buttresses, the choir is under a lower gable roof. The church tower with an octagonal upper floor has a gable-top helmet. The nave and choir have pointed arch windows. The glass paintings Herz Jesu , St. Wolfgang and Herz Mariens in the choir are from M. Schneider's glass painting institute Regensburg from 1883.
The neo-Gothic high altar with figures is by Josef Bertsch from 1883. The left and right side altars with figures are by August Valentin from Brixen.
Erasmus Kern's Meschach nativity scene from 1624 is in the vorarlberg museum .
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Vorarlberg. Götzis. Kuratienkirche hl. Wolfgang, in Meschach. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7031-0585-2 , pages 231f.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 19 ′ 55.1 ″ N , 9 ° 40 ′ 10.6 ″ E