Frastanz parish church

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Catholic parish church hl. Sulpitius in Frastanz
Interior view (outdated recording, the colorful partition behind which the choir is located and the organ on its right side wall is usually missing.)

The Roman Catholic parish church Frastanz is located in the municipality of Frastanz in the Feldkirch district in Vorarlberg . It is consecrated to St. Sulpitius and belongs to the Feldkirch deanery in the Feldkirch diocese . The building is a listed building .

history

In 1413 an altar consecration in Frastanz is mentioned in a document. Around 1480 a new church was built, which was consecrated in 1481. In 1680 there was a baroque church. The number of Catholics in Frastanz rose sharply through immigration. As a result of industrialization, the means and funds for the construction of the representative church, which is colloquially also known as Walgau Cathedral , were available from 1885 . In 1903 the church with the parish was handed over from the dean's office Bludenz-Sonnenberg to the dean's office in Feldkirch .

architecture

Church exterior

The west-facing neo-Gothic basilica nave with a lower, retracted choir and a 72 m high north tower was built in 1885 at a height in the south of the village center according to the plans of the architect Friedrich von Schmidt and consecrated on Saint Sulpitius in 1888 .

The nave with a surrounding coffin cornice under a steep gable roof has adjacent lower aisles under pent roofs, as well as the choir under a gable roof, have pointed arch windows. South of the choir is a sacristy under a pent roof. The four-storey gable facade in the east has a pre-built central nave with a two-armed flight of steps leading to the pointed arch portal.

Church interior

The glass paintings in the choir from 1890 are from the Tyrolean Glasmalereianstalt in Innsbruck. In the nave is the glass painting by Martin Häusle from 1965.

Furnishing

The high altar with the theme of the Painful Rosary has a neo-Gothic structure and figures by the sculptor Fidelis Rudhart from 1900. The left side altar with the theme of Joyful Rosary from 1911 and the right side altar with the theme of Glorious Rosary from 1915, as well as the pulpit, the baptismal font and three confessionals are from Rudhart. The choir stalls are from the carpenter Josef Tiefenthaler. A Pietà from 1895 is by the sculptor Dominikus Trenkwalder from Innsbruck. The reliefs of the Stations of the Cross were created by August Valentin in 1901 .

There is a bell by Lazarus Berger from 1512.

The war memorial between the two-armed staircase with a stone figure of St. Michael is from Albert Bechtold from 1935.

The large east gallery has been empty for a long time, instead a Metzler organ from 1986 with 24 stops on two manuals and a pedal with the prospect parallel to the longitudinal axis of the church on the north wall of the choir. The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

literature

  • Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Vorarlberg. Frastanz. Parish church hl. Sulpitius. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7031-0585-2 , pages 212ff.

Web links

Commons : Parish Church Frastanz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vorarlberg - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from May 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 26, 2015 (PDF).
  2. ↑ http://www.metzler-orgelbau.ch/htm/werkverzeichnis.htm

Coordinates: 47 ° 12 '55.3 "  N , 9 ° 37' 53.2"  E