Parish Church Höchst (Vorarlberg)
The Roman Catholic parish church Höchst is located in the municipality of Höchst in the Bregenz district in Vorarlberg . The parish church consecrated to St. John the Baptist belongs to the Dornbirn deanery of the Feldkirch diocese . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection .
history
According to documents, the first chapel was consecrated on this site in 1403 . Pastoral care was provided in the period from 1461 to 1796 by the parish of St. Gallen , which incorporated the Christian community . In 1520 a chaplain was founded. In place of the simple chapel, the Höchst people erected a new church building in 1600 , which had to be demolished at the end of the 19th century. Today's church was built between 1908 and 1910 according to plans by the Swiss architect Albert Rimli with the master builder Cornel Rhomberg. The renovation of Vorarlberg's tallest church tower was completed on November 6, 2018 .
architecture
The mighty neo-baroque church with a transept and a curved gable facade has a slender north tower with an onion dome . The nave is structured by buttresses and curved arched windows, the transept with round apsid closure with curved arched windows with coupled ox-eye windows flanked by buttresses. The nave and transept are under a mansard roof. There are portals on the south sides of the nave and transept. The apse with buttresses has a two-story sacristy in the south with a curved gable facade to the south. The western front forms a curved gable facade with a wide central part flanked by four stepped buttresses with a round arch portal with plastic gable framing with a medallion with a mosaic of the Heart of Jesus , above are three staggered round arched windows with curved entablature crowning with a plastic relief God the Father . The recessed side facades have built-in entrances with arched portals. The four-storey north tower stands by the choir and has a polygonal upper storey with arched sound openings and corner balusters. It wears an onion cap with a lantern and, at 81 meters high, is the highest church tower in Vorarlberg.
The interior of the church forms a wide three- bay hall space under a pressed cap barrel with belt arches on narrow double pilasters that separate the yokes . The one-bay transept has an apse closure. The three-bay choir has a three-eighth end and a stitch cap barrel vault on simple pilasters with a common, cranked cornice over two bays. The three-axis west gallery has a curved parapet.
The sculptor Schmidt from Zurich created the neo-baroque stucco. The vault pictures come from Haberer-Sinner from Bern, as well as the four evangelists in the choir, the four church fathers in the transept, and the twelve apostles in the nave . In the transept, the symbols chalice on the left and tiara on the right are placed in stucco cartouches . The stations of the cross are also contained in stucco cartouches.
The Tyrolean Glasmalereianstalt produced the stained glass in the nave and in the choir:
on the left the Holy Spirit and The Baptism of Christ and on the right the Holy Family with the church patron, St. John and the Lamb of God, angels playing music in the nave on the left, Eye of God, St. Anna and Heart of Jesus, St. Elisabeth of Thuringia and Pelican, St. Barbara and cross with crown, right in the nave, St. Aloysius and lily with scourge, St. Anthony of Padua and the Holy Spirit, St. John Nepomuk and the Lamb of God, singing angel and the symbols Alpha and Omega. The stained glass in the transept was created by Zettler in Munich, left apse: left Peter key and Moses staff with the bronze serpent, in the middle St. Monika and Herz Mariä, right Holy Spirit and Passion Cross; right apse: left tablets of the law and handkerchief of St. Veronica, in the middle St. Franziskus and Herz Jesu, on the right Paradiesschnange and Johanneshaupt, and on the gallery facade St. Cecilia with musical instruments.
The war memorial on the church square with a soldier saying goodbye was created by G. Matt.
Furnishing
The high altar with a neo-baroque structure with six columns and a high base zone based on a design by Roman Pircher (1929) was made by A. Menardi. J. Winkler created the figures.
The choir stalls with reliefs Isaia and Jeremiah on the left and Ezekiel and Daniel on the right were created by A. Rebholz. The figures painful Maria and Ecce homo come from the workshop of Ferdinand Stuflesser from Ortisei Val Gardena.
The organ with a neo-baroque case is the work of the Rieger Orgelbau company (1965/1966).
In the tower there is a heavy ring of seven bronze bells that was cast in 2005 by the Albert Bachert bell foundry in Karlsruhe. The largest bell weighs around 4.5 tons with a diameter of 1.98 meters. The smallest bell of the previous bells has been hung up on the floor below the bell house to ring by hand.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Vorarlberg 1983 . Höchst, parish church of St. Johannes d. T., pp. 244-245.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Church tower: Working at dizzying heights on ORF-Vorarlberg from November 6, 2018, accessed on November 6, 2018
- ↑ The 81-meter church tower in Höchst is being renovated Article in the Vorarlberger Nachrichten of May 12, 2017
- ↑ Bastian Fuchs: A - Höchst / Vorarlberg: Friday bell (g sharp °). April 9, 2010, accessed June 24, 2018 .
- ↑ Arlberg09: Höchst (Vorarlberg) bells of the parish church of St. John. December 7, 2017, accessed June 24, 2018 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 27 '35.3 " N , 9 ° 38' 18.4" E