Lourdes Chapel (Schwarzach)
The Roman Catholic Lourdes Chapel is located in the community of Schwarzach in the Bregenz district in Vorarlberg . The chapel belongs to the parish church Schwarzach in Schwarzach and thus to the dean's office of Bregenz of the diocese of Feldkirch . The chapel is dedicated to Our Lady in Lourdes .
The building is a listed building .
location
The chapel (about 427 m above sea level ) is in the community of Schwarzach at the intersection between Kapellenstrasse and Gebhard-Schwärzler-Strasse, slightly elevated. The chapel itself has no house number.
history
The chapel was built in the 1890s by his son-in-law, Johann Kohler , because of a sick vow made by the mayor and factory owner Gebhard Schwärzler (March 20, 1815 - March 24, 1896) and inaugurated in 1897. The chapel was renovated for the first time in 1929. The Lourdes grotto was removed in 1964. In the 1990s, the chapel, which had previously been privately owned, was transferred to the Catholic Church.
Chapel building
The neo-Gothic rectangular building was built according to plans by Georg Baumeister and externally resembles the parish church in Schwarzach. The single-storey chapel is a stone building free-standing on all sides with a gable height of about 12 m (total height with bell ridge about 14 m). The chapel occupies an area of around 42 m². It is a building with a rectangular basic shape and almost north-west / south-east orientation.
The metal-studded door and the flat, open bell ridge on the gable roof are to the northwest. The gable roof is covered with plain tiles. The building itself is unplastered and the visible natural stones were used as a design element. On the south-west and north-east long sides there are two pointed arch windows in wooden frames with glass windows with abstract depictions of biblical motifs (Carrying the Cross, Annunciation, Mary with the Child, Descent from the Cross) by Hubert Berchtold .
In 1929, Franz Lins from Bregenz installed an angel image in the pointed arch above the entrance door.
The prayer room and the chancel are not separated from each other and have a fake barrel vault . Around twelve people can be seated in the prayer room.
Furnishing
Inside, above the door, there is an inscription with some information about the foundation of the chapel and the renovations. The chapel benches are made of plain, lacquered fir wood and are not decorated with carvings. There is room for about 12 people seated in the chapel. In the bell ridge there is a bell that is clearly visible from the outside and that is rung on special occasions.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Vorarlberg 1983 . Hohenems, wayside shrine on Barbaraweg, p. 251.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Vorarlberg - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from June 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 21, 2016 (PDF)., ID: 21207
- ^ Josef Walser, Johann Kohler, a leader of the catholic people of Vorarlberg , Innsbruck, Vienna 1918, Tyrolia Verlagsanstalt, p. 70.
- ^ Community of Schwarzach, Heimat Schwarzach , Schwarzach 1990, self-published, p. 110.
- ↑ Hans Kohler , Turn of Time - Gerhard Schwärzler - An Entrepreneur of the 19th Century , ISBN 978-3-89783-862-8 , p. 23.
Coordinates: 47 ° 26 ′ 48.3 " N , 9 ° 45 ′ 29.7" E