Bezau parish church
The Roman Catholic parish church Bezau is in the Bregenzerwälder community Bezau in the district of Bregenz in Vorarlberg . It is consecrated to St. Jodok and belongs to the dean's office Hinterwald in the diocese of Feldkirch . The building is under monument protection ( list entry ).
location
The church is surrounded by a cemetery in a street knee in the middle of the village.
history
A Gothic church was consecrated in 1494 and enlarged in 1771. In the years 1907 to 1908 the church was rebuilt according to the plans of the architect Albert Rimli under the master builder Seraphim Pümpel. The wide rectangular nave with a retracted choir and church tower on the north side and sacristy on the south side has a rich late-historical facade design. The lower part of the church tower probably dates from the 15th century, the upper part from the years 1907 to 1908. It has a richly structured helmet, clock and lantern.
construction
- Church exterior
Mannerist main portal with a flight of stairs , above it in a niche a figure of St. Jodok , above it a relief group Let the children come to me in the gable of the central projection, above it a round tracery window, above it a bust of God the Father . Portal houses with gables on both sides of the nave, the nave itself flooded with light from all sides with high windows.
- Church interior
Wall paintings from 1925 by Ludwig Glötzle and Anton Marte inside the church . These show St. Jodok in the ceiling of the choir in clouds over Bezau , and in the stabbing caps, choir stems and at the end of the choir, numerous images of The Good Samaritan , Abraham and Isaac , Melchisedech's sacrifices , Moses and the miracle of water and Vorarlberg saints. Crucifixion and resurrection on the side walls of the choir . In the ceiling of the nave, St. Cecilia , The Good Samaritan , Sermon on the Mount , the Miracle of Pentecost and the twelve-year-old Jesus in the temple . In the nave side caps prophets, evangelists and church fathers, in the cross arms St. Theresa and St. Aloisius . At the soffit of the organ gallery, Christ and the Samaritan woman at Jacob's fountain , the prodigal son and Christ teaching .
Furnishing
On the north wall of the nave is a sacrament house from the 16th century with the maker's mark Esaias Gruber . The high altar from the late 17th century was reworked in 1908 and provided with a new tabernacle by the sculptor Albert Bachmann in 1925. Altarpiece St. Three Kings from 1684 by Matthäus Zehender . The neo-baroque pulpit with reliefs of the four evangelists and the Sermon on the Mount as well as the choir stalls in neo-renaissance style are by the sculptors and carpenters Gerhard and Christian Moosbrugger. Stations of the Cross with rich neo-baroque framing by Joseph Reich from 1908.
organ
Neoclassical organ case with three gables with organ work from 1909 by Anton Behmann .
Chimes
A bell from 1716.
Rectory
The cube-like rectory at number 46 from the 18th century has a two-armed flight of stairs with a wrought iron railing in front of the portal. On the second floor, a large room has a stucco ceiling from the construction period.
literature
- DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Vorarlberg. Bezau. Parish Church of St. Jodok. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7031-0585-2 , p. 18f.
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).
- ^ Church leader parish church St. Jodok in Bezau . In: Katholisches Pfarramt Bezau (Hrsg.): Christian art places of Austria . No. 585. Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 2016 ( bezau.at [PDF; 1.6 MB ; accessed on June 29, 2019]).
Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '7.8 " N , 9 ° 54" 8.1 " E