Marienkapelle Buggenau
This Roman Catholic Chapel of St. Mary Buggenau is in the district Buggenau the municipality of Hohenems in Dornbirn in Vorarlberg . She is consecrated to Our Lady . 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 .
history
The chapel was first built in 1799. In 1885 the chapel burned down and was rebuilt. The chapel was badly damaged by explosions in the Erlach quarry in 1939 and rebuilt in 1946/1947 by the Waller family from the Mathis construction business. In 1979/1980 the chapel was renovated free of charge by craftsmen and members of the cultural area at the suggestion of the Hohenems cultural area.
Church building
location
The chapel building (about 550 m above sea level ) is in the Buggenau district in Hohenems between the Buggenau and Schieba plots . The chapel is about 1.4 km as the crow flies from the center of Hohenems and can only be reached via a narrow road.
Building
The simple rectangular building made of brick under a gable roof covered with Eternit shingles, which is free-standing on all sides, has no bell rider and is kept simple on the inside. The gable height is about 5.5 m and the chapel occupies an area of about 25 m² (approx. 4.5 × 5.5 m). The building is oriented from north to south. On the southern outside by the door there is a brass plaque of thanks from the Hohenems parish to Rosian Büsel as benefactor.
Windows and doors are edged with sandstone and designed as arched windows or doors. On the long sides to the west and east there are two round arched windows without decorations.
The building itself is largely plastered white outside and inside and the floor consists of terracotta-colored tiles throughout. The dark stained rafters are partially visible as a design element from the interior.
The altar is in the north towards the rock break. The prayer room and the chancel are not clearly separated from each other, only one step indicates a boundary.
Furnishing
On the northern front side there is a painted representation of Our Lady with the child. According to the inscription in the chapel, this picture is said to have previously hung in the chapel of Glopper Castle . A bailiff who lived there and was known to be violent is said to have thrown the painting over the castle rock into the Buggenau during a drinking party. The painting was found undamaged at the foot of the castle rock and hung in this Lady Chapel - which was built for this purpose. According to legend, the castle bailiff was struck by lightning from the blue sky and he was paralyzed from that hour on.
In the prayer room there is room for eight believers in four simple benches made of lacquered fir wood.
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
- ↑ Information according to the inscription in the chapel.
- ↑ Another version of the story can be found at tell.at: The carved picture in the Buggenau chapel .
Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '14 " N , 9 ° 42' 9.1" E