Petronilla Chapel (Feldkirch)
The Petronilla Chapel is a Roman Catholic chapel in the Altenstadt district (Sankt-Martins-Weg) in the city of Feldkirch . As a church in the field , the chapel is the origin of the name Feldkirch.
The Lourds and St. Martin chapel stood in the open to the west of the former village of Feldkirch, which later became Altenstadt. First mentioned in a document around 842, the chapel came into the possession of the Premonstratensian monastery in Churwalden in 1222 . The chapel was enlarged in 1505 and transformed into a Lourdes grotto in 1888 . The chapel consists of a choir , nave and an enclosed sacristy . Today the chapel is dedicated to the two saints St. Petronilla and Martin. Panel with St. Martin and St. Petronilla . Crucifix with figures of St. Martin and St. Petronilla.
The fresco Maria von Lourdes from 1914 is by the painter Florus Scheel .
literature
- DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Vorarlberg. Feldkirch. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7031-0585-2 , page 192.
Coordinates: 47 ° 15 ′ 37.3 " N , 9 ° 36 ′ 57" E