New Feldkirch-Tosters parish church
The Roman Catholic parish church Feldkirch-Tosters is in the district Tosters the municipality of Feldkirch in District Feldkirch in Vorarlberg . It is consecrated to Saints Cornelius and Cyprian and belongs to the Feldkirch deanery in the Feldkirch diocese . The building is a listed building .
Location description
The church stands in the middle of the settlement, Toster, which has grown into a clustered village.
history
As early as the beginning of the 9th century, the St. Gallen Abbey already owned grounds and a church in what is now Tosters. The church is first mentioned in a document in 1045. The original parish church was dedicated to St. Cornelius. In 1835 a chapel was built in the valley. In 1879 the chapel was torn down and a large new building was built. From 1970 to 1972 Guntram Mätzler drew plans for a new church. The old church was demolished in 1976 except for the steeple. The new church was consecrated in 1977.
architecture
- Church exterior
The church was built in connection with the parish center and the old church tower. The church tower is divided into storeys by three cornices. The upper floor is a little narrower and has round-arched, coupled sound windows . Above it is a gable-pointed helmet. The church stands on a square floor plan with a surrounding cornice and two distinctive saddle roof structures.
- Church interior
Inside, the church forms a single room with glass paintings in the baptistery. The depiction of the "Baptism of Christ" was painted by Ruiter-Häusle.
Furnishing
The portal with a bronze relief was made by Aldo Jahn in 1973 . On the back wall of the altar there is a group of pests . St. Cornelius is depicted on the left and St. Cyprian on the right. All figures are former shrine figures of the Gothic altar. They come from around 1500 from Michel Erhart's workshop . The crucifixion group was created around 1510. In the baptistery there is an enthroned statue of the Madonna and Child from 1470. The figures of St. Dorothea and St. Jerome date from the beginning of the 16th century.
organ
The organ comes from the organ building company Gebrüder Mayer from 1975.
literature
- DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria : Vorarlberg. Feldkirch. Parish Church of Tosters Federal Monuments Office (ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85028-397-7 , pp. 190f
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Vorarlberg - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from May 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 26, 2015 (PDF).
Coordinates: 47 ° 14 ′ 16.8 ″ N , 9 ° 34 ′ 39.6 ″ E