Parish Church of Bartholomäberg
The parish church of Bartholomäberg stands on a flat step at 1087 m above sea level in the center of the municipality of Bartholomäberg in Vorarlberg . The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Bartholomäus belongs to the deanery of Montafon of the diocese of Feldkirch . The baroque church is a listed building and has a Romanesque lecture cross, a remarkable Gothic winged altar and a remarkable organ .
history
At first the church was a branch of the Laurentiuskirche in Bludenz. Around the year 1100, documented as 1350, Bartholomäberg was the first parish in the Montafon. The parish and community of Bartholomäberg is one of the first places in the Montafon and was the capital of the valley until the late Middle Ages. The patronage of Bartholomäus refers to the mining that was carried out in Bartholomäberg and Silbertal. In 1418 the church received a letter of indulgence, issued by five cardinals at the Council of Constance . 1503 was a church consecration. A visitation protocol from 1721 describes the church as "ancient, without construction and too small for such a populous community" . In the protocol, Bishop Ulrich von Federspiel from the Diocese of Chur instructs the parish and parish to rebuild the church in the Baroque style. The foundation stone for the church was laid on May 26th, 1729 by pastor Johann Franz Marent. From 1732 the construction work was carried out with master mason Sebastian Zumkeller and Christian Bitschnau with master carpenter Hans Ganahl. On June 6, 1743, Bishop Joseph Benedikt von Rost from Chur consecrated the new church. In 1936 the plague chapel from 1630/1640 was demolished in the course of a road construction and a cross-vaulted war memorial was built in front of the brickwork sign in front of the west portal. In 1966 the interior was restored. In 1973 the organ was restored. In 1998/1999 the exterior and interior were restored.
Church building
- Church exterior
The church is surrounded by a walled cemetery. The baroque nave and the retracted choir with a three-eighth closure are under a common gable roof. The nave has a circumferential base band and four arched windows on both sides. The choir also has arched windows. The windows have baroque plaster frames. To the north of the choir, on the side of the mountain, and thus the slope is less subject to pressure, is the 38.5 m high tower and next to it a deep-set funeral hall and a sacristy above it as an extension. The tower has an octagonal bell house and flat arched windows and circular windows above a surrounding cornice and has an onion dome. The west portal has a plastic column frame and straight entablature and a segmented gable. In front of the west portal is a walled sign that is open on both sides, with a war memorial site built in front of it, both under a hipped roof. A bricked closed sign under a gable roof with a round arched door is presented to the north portal. The gable field shows the fresco St. Bartholomew. In front of the north portal is the Weiberhof with a raised cemetery wall with an open entrance hall with a pent roof as a weather-protected waiting zone. Here is a crucifix from the mid-17th century in a niche.
- Church interior
The nave as a rectangular hall space has a flat wooden ceiling and flat arched windows with a painted crown. The retracted choir arch is rounded and grooved. The one-yoke choir with a three-eighth closure has a stitch cap vault on flat wall pilasters with two corrugated straps. The gothic pointed arch portal to the sacristy in the left choir wall shows a round bar with acanthus leaves on turned plinths in the hollow. The barrel-vaulted basement under the sacristy is used as a morgue. The sacristy as a two-bay room has a ribbed vault on consoles with a keystone with a three-dimensional floral wreath and empty heraldic shields at the intersections. The west gallery in the nave has a straight wooden parapet with paintings of Saints Judas Thaddäus, James the Younger, Matthew, Philipp, Andreas, Johannes, Maria, Salvator, Josef, Petrus, Jakobus the Elder, Bartholomäus, Thomas, Simon and Matthias around 1730. That Jacob Bertle (1907) painted the fresco Multiplication of Bread in the Choir . The wooden nave flat ceiling shows paintings of the Fourteen Holy Helpers by the painter Michael Lorünser (1732), in the first row by the choir arch Saints Erasmus, Blasius and Georg, in the second row Pantaleon, Vitus and Christophorus, in the third row Cyriacus, Heilig- Spirit hole with inscription and Dionysius, in the fourth row Eustachius, Aegidius and Achatius and in the fifth row Margaretha, Barbara and Katharina. The glass paintings of the Tyrolean glass painting establishment from 1906/1907 show the choir on the left and right of the Holy. Peter and Paul , St. Andreas. The glass painting Last Supper of Jesus in the choir shows the inscription Christoffel Ardolff pastor uff Sant Bartholomes Berg 1575 . The stained glass of the nave window shows Saints Thaddäus, Matthew, James the Elder and John on the left and Thomas, Philip, Simon and Matthias on the right.
Furnishing
The oldest and most valuable piece of equipment in the church is a Romanesque lecture cross made around 1150 in Limoges in southern France. The Romanesque lecture cross by Bartholomäberg was Monument of the Month in June 2003. A copy is in use on site. The original is kept by the diocese of Feldkirch .
The miner's altar around 1525 on the right nave wall shows the figures Bartholomäus, Placidus, Anna selbdritt , Lucius and John the Baptist in the middle shrine on pedestal steps, on the inside of the wings the relief figures above left Eustachius, Christophorus, below Theodul and Eligius, above right Bartholomäus, Jodokus and below Barbara and Katharina, on the outside of the wings the paintings above left Sebastian and Rochus and below Blasius and Konrad and above right Ursula and Margaretha and below Helena and Magdalena. The predella shows the group of figures Adoration of the Magi painted and gilded by Josef Anton Bertle and Sons zu Schruns in 1851 . The excerpt from the miner's altar bears the group of figures Coronation of Mary and Magnus on the left and Stephanus on the right and above the crucifixion group with John and Mary and above Salvator. The painting Fall of the Cross of Christ in the Antependium was created around 1525.
The baroque high altar with a four-pillar structure on a curved floor plan with twisted columns with angel baths and a volute extract, both with curved entablature, was created by the carpenter and sculptor Georg Senn (1737). The high altar painting of Bartholomew in front of Mary and Child with Anna and Joachim is marked Jac: Carl Stauder Constanz: Invenit et Pinxit 1737 . The figures on the left Josef and on the right Johannes Nepomuk, in the cloudy sky God the Father, two kneeling angels and putti were created by the sculptor Andreas Kölle and his workshop (1737).
Georg Senn (1746) created the left and right side altar as a four-pillar structure on a high base zone and was consecrated in 1753.
The altar on the right in the choir was transferred here from the demolished plague chapel.
The pulpit with a curved basket and volute bands by Georg Senn with figures by Andreas Kölle was created in 1736 and shows a painting of Pope Gregory around 1736 on the back wall. The volute sound cover bears figures of evangelists and angels.
The crucifix above the choir arch was created by Josef Klemens Witwer around 1790.
The choir stalls on the right in the choir were created by Georg Senn and received putti from Andreas Kölle and originally had eight seats and contain newly built confessionals. The dock rows in the nave are from 1936.
The baptismal font in the choir on the left is from the 18th century and bears the lid figure of John the Baptist from the Kölle workshop. The stonemason Rudolf Vonier (1746) created a holy water stone.
The stations of the cross were painted by Josef Anton Bertle (1820/1828).
The organ of the parish church Bartholomäberg with a prospectus with putti and decorative carvings and a cartouche with the designation 1792 is one of the most beautiful sounding single manual organs in Austria. Johann Michael Graß is accepted as organ builder around 1792.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Vorarlberg 1983 . Bartholomäberg. Parish church hl. Bartholomäus, Friedhof, Pfarrhof, pp. 13–15.
- Andreas Rudigier , Beatrice Zamora (ed.): The late Romanesque lecture cross by Bartholomäberg (from Limoges) . Heimatschutzverein im Tale Montafon , Schruns 2002, ISBN 3-902225-03-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ St. Bartholomew | 6781 Bartholomäberg
- ↑ Bruno Oberhammer; Michael Kasper: Montafon Organ Landscape , 2016, ISBN 978-3-902225-69-6
Coordinates: 47 ° 5 ′ 31 ″ N , 9 ° 54 ′ 28 ″ E