Parish church of Andelsbuch
The Roman Catholic parish church of Andelsbuch stands free next to the main street in the center of the Bregenzerwald community of Andelsbuch in the Bregenz district in Vorarlberg . It is consecrated to Saints Peter and Paul and belongs to the Hinterwald dean's office . The building is a listed building .
history
In the 11th century Theoderich , reform abbot of the Petershausen monastery in Constance , settled some monks in the Andelsbuch area. The seat of the monastery was moved to Mehrerau Monastery around 1094 . In 1170 the church in Andelsbuch was elevated to a parish church and from 1227 there were repeated papal confirmations of ownership that the church was in the possession of Mehrerau. In 1468 a Gothic church was built as an extension of a Romanesque predecessor church. In 1718 a new building was carried out by Ignaz Beer , who incorporated some Gothic components into the new church building. So the west and north walls were preserved as well as the basement of the tower. The church was rededicated in 1728. In 1862 the church was extended to the west and the furnishings were renewed. The church was restored in 1889 and also in 1932 and 1960 to 1963. As part of the restoration in 1932, the gallery was expanded. In 1974 the neo-Romanesque altars erected in 1862 were removed.
Church building
- Church exterior
The church stands above a simple floor plan with a retracted choir with five-eighth end . The nave is a simple baroque hall building. In the northern corner of the choir is the church tower with onion dome and the old sacristy . A closed cemetery with inner arcades adjoins the church on the north side. The new sacristy is located in the southern corner of the choir. The massive lower part of the church tower was probably built in 1468, the slightly narrower octagonal upper part in the first third of the 18th century. The portals are simple drapery portals. The side entrances were built like a canopy, while the representative west portal is crowned by a triangular gable. A figure of the Archangel Michael stands in a facade niche on the west side . The structure of the facade was reduced somewhat in 1862.
For the door ring of the main portal from the 12th century see: Andelsbucher Türring .
- Church interior
The church has a retracted choir with a five-eighth end with a flat vault and stitch caps . The rectangular nave has a flat ceiling with pressed covings . Stitch caps cut into these above the four arched windows. The deep, protruding gallery rests on thin wooden supports, the parapet is adorned by dwarf pilasters and fields. The walls in the choir and nave are simply structured by pilasters. On the ceilings is rich stucco ornamentation from 1730, consisting of volutes , cartouches , roses and branches, which accompanies the architectural structure. The murals created Johann Kaspar Rick in 1862. The ceiling paintings in four fit show from the West started the "Adoration of the Magi ", the "twelve year old Jesus in the Temple", the " miracle of Pentecost ", the " Last Supper " and the resurrection of Jesus . In the coves there are oval pictures depicting various saints: on the left, St. Barbara , St. Augustine , St. Matthew the Evangelist and St. John the Evangelist ; on the right side St. Catherine , St. John the Baptist , St. Luke the Evangelist and St. Mark the Evangelist . Franz Bertle created circular pictures set into the wall in 1862; they depict the twelve apostles in the nave and the four church fathers in the choir .
Furnishing
The stained glass windows in the choir show scenes from the Old Testament , which typologically fit the Eucharist . They were created in 1880. In the ship, the blessed Diedo, the holy Gebhard , the blessed Ilga, the blessed Merbod , the saint Gallus and the saint Fridolin are depicted on the glass windows from 1943. The simple people's altar is from 1974, the crucifix from 1718. On the high altar are two figures of the princes of the apostles Peter and Paul from 1770. The altarpiece of the neo-Romanesque high altar shows the "Crucifixion of Christ". Two former altarpieces hang on the triumphal arch wall, on the left “ Assumption of Mary ” by Jacob Carl Stauder from the year 1718, on the right the “Saint Joseph with Putti ” by Franz Anton Gschwend from the year. The stations of the cross with reliefs come from Winkler, who created them in 1891.
literature
- DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Vorarlberg. Andelsbuch. Parish church hl. Peter and Paul. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7031-0585-2 , p. 7f.
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 ° 24 '48 " N , 9 ° 53' 45.3" E