Gantschier parish church

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Church of St. Joseph the worker

The parish church of Gantschier is located in Gantschier in the municipality of Bartholomäberg in Vorarlberg . The Roman Catholic parish church Josef der Arbeiter belongs to the deanery of Montafon of the diocese of Feldkirch . The parish church is a listed building .

Former Agatha Chapel

Originally there was an Agatha chapel in Gantschier, consecrated in 1769, on the hill behind today's school. The chapel stood at the bottom of a steep footpath with about an hour's walk, the so-called Kapellenweg, which leads to the parish church of Bartholomäberg in Bartholomäberg. While some of the chapels on this chapel path are maintained by the landowners without a preservation order, the Agatha chapel was demolished by the landowner after the Gantschier parish exposition church was built.

Joseph the Worker Church

In 1955 a barrack church was built . In 1958 a church building committee was founded, which awarded the contract to the architect Werner Pfeifer (1919–1972) from Schruns. In August 1960, the then Bishop Bruno Wechner laid the foundation stone behind the collecting basin in the flat valley floor. In 1962 the emergency church was closed for security reasons, the masses and prayers were held in the basement of the new building for two years until the new village church could be inaugurated at Christmas 1964. It is dedicated to the country's patron saint, St. Joseph the Worker . The parish exposition with the parishes of Bartholomäberg, Schruns and Vandans was initially made by the pastor in St. Anton in the Montafon and is now directed by the pastor in Vandans.

The church is a simple modernist building of two staggered bodies with a pent roof, staggered window areas and a campanile- like low bell tower. The church tower stands like a defensive tower against the Fritzenbach . The church building, together with the adjoining rooms and a sacristan's apartment, forms a courtyard, which is connected to a roof on the open side and which is thought to form a broad, intercepting courtyard for Fritzen. This had impressed the then building committee on the planning draft.

The concrete glass window was created in 1962 by the artist Adolfo Winternitz (painter and vitralist), it was made by the Vitraux Vve company. Chiara (Lausanne, Switzerland). Also noteworthy are the relief-like bronze doors of the main portal and the exit door to the adjoining cemetery from the construction period, executed by the sculptor Susana C. Polac. There are the figures of St. Nicholas and St. John Nepomuk from the widower's workshop from 1790 from the Agatha Chapel, water saints who recall the dangers of the waters of the Ill and the Fritzenbach. A crucifix from around 1770 was made by the Paznaun baroque artist Johann Ladner . The altar by Johann Ladner from the former Agatha Chapel was integrated into the church on the left wall of the nave in 2016 with the figures of the Madonna and Child in a halo, as well as Saints Nicholas and Johannes Nepomuk.

In 2013, the parish exposition was raised by Diocesan Bishop Benno Elbs to the 126th parish of the Diocese of Feldkirch . Mathis Orgelbau from Näfels consecrated the acquired organ at the parish celebration . The special cross on the main wall of the parish church is from the local art locksmith Hubert Keßler (2013). Mag. Hans Jürgen Tinkhauser is the first pastor of the Gantschier parish (since September 2012).

The Grassmayr bell foundry cast the first bell in 1955, which was followed by three more bells in 1982. On October 17, 2014, the large Sacred Heart bell weighing approx. 1028 kg with the tone f was cast in the Maria Laach bell foundry . The motif on the bell comes from Julia Stampfer. It shows Jesus rising from the heart. The Big Bell was consecrated on December 13, 2014 by Bishop Benno Elbs. The Marienbelllein (approx. 50 kg, tone b 2 ) from the 19th century was added. The old Agatha bell has been hanging in the tower as the 5th bell since June 2015. The steel belfry was replaced by a wooden belfry made of larch. The larch wood, which was also placed in damping shoes, protects the masonry of the church tower.

literature

  • Zita Bernardi: Development of the history of Gantschier . The development from a rural settlement to an industrial and tourist location. 1978 ( pdf , Gantschier traditional costume band).
  • Dehio Vorarlberg 1983 . Bartholomäberg, parish exposition church hl. Josef the worker in Gantschier, p. 15.
  • Andreas Rudigier : Montafon. A small cultural-historical guide (= special volume on the Montafon series 7). Heimatschutzverein Montafon , Schruns 2009, ISBN 978-3-902225-36-8 , Gantschier, p. 65f.

Web links

Commons : Josefskirche (Bartholomäberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Lit. Bernardi: 1978, p. 1
  2. ↑ a b Gantschier - St. Josef , kath-kirche-vorarlberg.at
  3. ↑ Gantschier becomes own parish ORF-Vorarlberg, June 8, 2013
  4. ↑ The "Big Bell" for the parish church of Gantschier

Coordinates: 47 ° 5 '21.6 "  N , 9 ° 53' 7.9"  E