New Götzis parish church
The Roman Catholic New Parish Church Götzis is located in the center of the market town of Götzis in the Feldkirch district in Vorarlberg . It is consecrated to St. Ulrich and belongs to the Rankweil deanery in the Feldkirch diocese . The building is a listed building .
history
The church was built between 1862 and 1865 according to plans by the architect Anton Geppert with the builder J. Wilhelm. The newer interior design was designed by the architect Anton Rhomberg. Opposite the parish church is a parish center built in 1981.
architecture
- Church exterior
The church shows itself as a neo-Romanesque nave building with a transept, choir with round apse and a western double tower facade. The nave and choir are under a gable roof. The arched windows in arched niches stand on a surrounding cornice. The front sides of the transept and the central west facade have rose windows in round arch niches. The central gable of the west facade is structured with staggered arched openings. The western arched portal has an imagined portico hall with three arched openings. The two towers have a round arch frieze on the middle floor, above an upper floor with coupled round arch sound openings and above a six-sided gable floor with pointed helmet and tracery parapet.
The war memorial in front of the church was created by Peter Schneider (1963).
- Church interior
The three-aisled, six-bay nave has a transept with three square bays with a straight end, the square choir bay closes with a round apse. The walls were structured with windows in round arch blind arcades.
- Stained glass
The three window rosettes were created by Mila Bjelik-Stöhr (1946), the windows in the nave were created by Martin Häusle (1948/1949), all made by the Tyrolean glass painting company .
Furnishing
The popular altar with the relief of Christ's sacrificial lamb and the people of God was created by the sculptor Herbert Albrecht (1957). The mural Christ in the mandorla with the twelve apostles in the apse was created by Josef Hofer and Walter Khüny (1962). The side altar in the left transept bears the figure of Maria with child from Meschach around 1470.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Vorarlberg 1983 . Götzis, New Parish Church of St. Ulrich, p. 228.
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 ° 20 ′ 2.1 " N , 9 ° 38 ′ 43.8" E