Parish Church of Blons
The parish church Blons is in the place Blons in the municipality Blons in the Great Walsertal in Vorarlberg . The Roman Catholic parish church of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception belongs to the Walgau-Walsertal dean's office in the Feldkirch diocese . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection .
history
The church and the provost of Sankt Gerold belonged to the parish of Bludesch until 1649 and then as a monastic chaplain to the parish of Thuringia . In 1689 it was raised to the status of an independent parish church and incorporated into Einsiedeln Abbey. The church was built in 1684 and consecrated with the cemetery in 1697. In 1701 the choir was enlarged and in 1863 the nave was extended.
architecture
The baroque church is on the road and is surrounded by a walled cemetery. The nave with a transept-like widening in front of the choir and the retracted choir with five-eighth end under a common gable roof are without structure in the facade. The flat arched portal on the west facade from 1863 has a low brick porch with a round arch arcade under a hipped roof. The north tower stands by the choir and was fitted with flat-arch sound windows in 1873 and raised with a gable-pointed helmet. A two-storey sacristy was added to the south of the choir in 1867/68.
The hall room with a flat ceiling over a hollow and a surrounding cornice has three round arched windows with stucco framing and in front of the drawn-in choir arch on capitals side arched arcades with chapel-like extensions with flat arched windows. To the west is a straight gallery with a wrought iron parapet. The choir with a stitch cap vault and a flat ceiling field has two flat arched windows and doors to the tower and the sacristy.
Furnishing
The high altar from 1685 with two twisted columns set with vine leaves and straight cranked entablature and blown gable and lateral canopy wing with scale pilaster shows an altarpiece Immaculata painted in 1686 by the painter Fridolin Dumeisen OSB, the figures of Saints Martin and Gerold and two entablature putti are from 1685 and the Upper figure St. Joseph with Jesus from 1700. The rotating tabernacle from 1849 has a bronze door relief with four angels. The left side altar shows the picture of Christ of the Mount of Olives by Leopold Hilz from 1852 and the upper picture of the Heart of Jesus as a copy after Melchior Paul von Deschwanden and the figures in the excerpt of Saints Agnes and Katharina. The right side altar from 1703 shows the image of St. Nikolaus painted in 1859 by Josef Bacher, the upper image of the Heart of Mary is a copy after Deschwanden, the figures in the excerpt are Saints Michael and Sebastian from 1703.
On the south wall of the nave is a crucifix from the end of the 18th century. The font is named 1689. The reliefs of the stations of the cross were created in 1902 by the sculptor Ferdinand Stuflesser from Ortisei Val Gardena.
The organ in a neo-Romanesque case was built by Orgelbau Behmann in 1900 and expanded in 1933 by the Mayer brothers . The tower clock was built by Anton Jäger in 1875. The bells are from 1947 and an avalanche bell was added in 1954.
The cemetery was consecrated in 1697 and expanded in 1852. There is a war memorial and a memorial to the avalanche disaster of 1954 in Vorarlberg based on a plan by Eugen Jussel and executed by the locksmith W. Oberhammer.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Vorarlberg 1983 . Blons, Parish Church of Our Lady Immaculate Conception, pp. 26–27.
Web links
- Parish church Blons on the website of the diocese of Feldkirch
- Bells of the parish church Blons on youtube
Coordinates: 47 ° 13 '23.2 " N , 9 ° 50' 1.8" E