Parish Church of Fontanella
The parish church Fontanella is located in Kirchberg in the municipality of Fontanella in the Great Walser Valley in Vorarlberg . The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Sebastian belongs to the dean's office Walgau-Walsertal in the diocese of Feldkirch . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection .
history
A church was built on the site of a chapel from 1664 to 1673 with a foundation from Magister Ulrich Hartmann, pastor on the other side of the mountain in Damüls in the Bregenzerwald , and as a result the church was elevated to a parish church in 1674 and Hartmann became the first pastor. The baroque church building was expanded in 1847. The interior was restored in 1871, a restoration in 1967, and a renovation in 1980. In 1982 a chapel for the dead was added.
architecture
The nave with three arched windows and the retracted choir with a retracted apse stand under a shared saddle roof. The west facade is accentuated by a south-facing porch under a gable roof. The west portal is carved in stone. In the west facade is a painting Moses and Burning Bush by the painter Anton Jehly (1923). The north tower at the choir with a high square storey has an octagonal bell chamber with four arched sound openings and an onion dome. In the east of the tower there is a two-storey sacristy under a pent roof. In the north-east of the church there is a chapel for the dead.
Inside the church, the nave shows itself with a surrounding cornice, a hollow and, since 1871, a flat ceiling with profiled stucco frames and three square stucco fields with rosettes by the plasterer Studer. The arched windows in the choir and nave also have profiled stucco frames. The west gallery with straight balustrade stands on two pillars. The high and narrow arched choir has capitals. The single-bay choir with a rounded end has a groin vault on pillars. The stained glass in the choir, Sebastian on the left, Martin on the right, painted by Albert Rauch (1968).
Furnishing
The neo-Romanesque tabernacle structure with a standing cross from the end of the 18th century has the side figures Peter and Paul from 1871. The sculptor Albert Winkler created the figures of Mary with Child on the left and the Sacred Heart on the right on the wall of the choir arch around 1910.
The Mayer brothers (1919) built the organ in a neo-Romanesque case .
Trivia
The chapel of St. Anne in Faschina , which was built at the beginning of the 18th century .
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Vorarlberg 1983 . Fontanella, parish church of St. Sebastian, in the village of Kirchberg, surrounded by a cemetery. Pp. 210-211.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 14 ′ 51 ″ N , 9 ° 54 ′ 32.8 ″ E