Markus Chapel (Lech-Stubenbach)
The Markuskapelle is a small path chapel in the Stubenbach district of the municipality of Lech in the Vorarlberg district of Bludenz . The 17th-century chapel is the holy Markus inaugurated . It is a listed building .
Location description
The chapel stands at the end of Lech in the Stubenbach district in the direction of Warth across the stream.
Architecture and equipment
The chapel is a solid brick building. It is a rectangular building with four slug pane windows . Above it is a steep gable roof.
Above the church there is a wooden coffered ceiling that dates from the time it was built.
Furnishing
The small altar with twisted columns dates from the construction period. The figures were not added until around 40 to 60 years later. The figurative decoration consists of a well-carved figure of Mary with a baby Jesus. The second figure represents St. Anthony of Padua , the third St. Theodul . The stations of the cross are farm work from the beginning of the 19th century.
literature
- DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Vorarlberg. Lech. Markuskapelle Stubenbach. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7031-0585-2 .
- Parish Lech am Arlberg: The churches and chapels of Lech and Zürs am Arlberg . 1st edition. Lech (Vorarlberg) 2007, p. 33 .
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).
Coordinates: 47 ° 13 ′ 21.1 ″ N , 10 ° 9 ′ 22 ″ E