Hohenems parish church
The Roman Catholic parish church Hohenems is in the district market of the municipality of Hohenems in Dornbirn in Vorarlberg . It is consecrated to St. Charles Borromeo and belongs to the dean's office in Dornbirn in the diocese of Feldkirch . The building is a listed building .
The patronage of St. Charles Borromeo is celebrated annually on November 4th. Karl Borromeo is the patron saint of Hohenems.
location
The church is a late Baroque stone building that is free-standing on almost all sides and dominates the center of Hohenems and is located on the west side of Marktstrasse and south-east side on Schlossbergstrasse.
The parish center is about 110 m to the west as the crow flies.
Next to the listed town hall in Hohenems is the listed chapel of St. Charles Borromeo .
history
In 1351 there was a chapel in Hohenems, which was dedicated to a St. Catherine was consecrated and which was expanded around 1490. A local chaplaincy had existed in Hohenems since 1354 . The Hohenems parish was part of the Lustenau parish until around 1498 and has been an independent parish ever since. Saint Karl Borromeo visited Hohenems in 1570 (Count Jakob Hannibal von Hohenems was the husband of his half-sister Hortensia).
Built in 1467 and in 1468 in honor of St. Sebastian chapel in Dornbirn-Oberdorf was looked after by a Hohenems court chaplain from 1471 to 1771.
1576–1580 a new church (Hannibal Church) was built according to plans by Esaias Gruber , which was consecrated in 1581. The current church building from the years 1796/97 was carried out by Jakob Scheiterle. In 1806 the church building was completed and consecrated. The new parish church was rebuilt with great personal and financial commitment by Pastor Joseph Fetz (born April 17, 1751 in Schwarzenberg , † June 12, 1832 in Hohenems , buried in the chapel of St. Sebastian and St. Antonius ). The cost of the parish church was calculated at 8,565 guilders . Pastor Joseph Fetz finally donated over 3000 guilders from private assets.
In 1974 the parish vicariate of Herrenried was separated from the Hohenems parish.
architecture
The church building is a dominant, late baroque hall building with a retracted choir and curved west facade. The ground level is about 431 m above sea level. A. The church is oriented to the southwest-northeast, about 23 m high, about 50 m long, 20 m wide. The church building itself has a steep gable roof and large, dominating arched windows, which generously and naturally illuminate the church. The square tower, about 36 m high, attached to the north side of the nave has a pointed gable helmet and four arched sound openings. It is not open to the public. In the area of the sound openings there is an open, circumferential corridor.
The choir faces northeast, is structurally lower than the nave and is architecturally clearly delimited by the flattened choir arch .
Esaias Gruber the Elder († around 1595) and the Younger, sculptor family, created some sculptures in the parish church.
The two-winged, southwest located, main gate shows delicate carvings in the upper area. A statue of Jakob Hannibal von Hohenems is located above the main portal with a sandstone frame. Between the main portal and the statue there is an inscription plaque reminding of Jakob Hannibal in Latin. Above the statue there is a sandstone relief of a "Pietà" on the facade.
A medallion-shaped ceiling fresco in the nave shows “Assumption of the Virgin Mary”. The dominant square ceiling fresco to the choir shows the representation of King Solomon asking his mother to sit on the throne. Towards the gallery is a ceiling fresco depicting an allegory of the Council of Trients , in which secular and spiritual dignitaries from Hohenems are depicted as well as the coats of arms of the Counts of Hohenems and the Counts of Waldburg. All ceiling frescoes are by Andreas Brugger (1737–1812) and from 1798.
On the right side wall towards the choir is a baroque painting of St. Charles Borromeo. On the left side of the wall is the pulpit, which is no longer in use today, next to it on a small simms a statue of the Archangel Michael.
The wooden pews are decorated with elaborately simple, repetitive, carved decorations.
The church building is connected to the Hohenems Palace via an above-ground corridor about 50 m long .
The choir is flanked by side altars on the left (Marienaltar) and right (Joseph's altar) and is separated from the choir by steps.
The ceiling fresco in the choir shows the Last Supper by Andreas Brugger (1798).
Furnishing
High altar
The wooden, carved Renaissance high altar from 1580 by Heinrich Dieffolt stands on a dark gray stone base. The coronation of Mary is the central detail of this altar .
In front of the high altar, a few steps down, there is a popular altar on a small pedestal.
Side altars
The left-sided, largely black, Marian altar houses an altarpiece with the " Rosary Madonna ", presumably by Andreas Brugger. Below the picture is a clay Pietà from 1597. The upper picture shows the Archangel Michael .
The altarpiece on the right-hand side, largely black, shows the "dream" of Saint Joseph von Gebhard Flatz (1846) as an altarpiece . The upper picture is a relief of a guardian angel.
Stations of the Cross
The 14 stations of the cross are placed along the walls of the main nave. It is an oil painting in a simple black and gold wooden frame.
organ
The curved real gallery carrying the impressive 1987 built Gollini - organ with 40 registers on three manuals and Pedal and has on both sides of the main entrance of a rise.
Bells
During the First World War , the bells had to be delivered for war purposes in 1916. On October 15, 1922, five new bells from the Bendorf foundry were consecrated by Abbot General Kassian Haid from Mehrerau . During the Second World War , these bells also had to be delivered for war purposes in 1942.
After the war, five new bells were consecrated on August 15, 1954. They were cast in the Hamm & Hartner foundry in Gröding near Salzburg and tuned to the chimes H °, d ', e', f sharp 'and a' .
graveyard
The city cemetery behind the church was only inaugurated in 1959. It is about 428 m above sea level. A. up to 421 m above sea level A. , is about 285 m long and up to 85 m wide. The cemetery is spacious. On the south-eastern side it borders on the Tiergartenweg, on the west on the Schlossbergstraße. The cemetery is about 100 m away from the parish church.
There are traditional earth graves and several urn walls.
War memorial
The listed war memorial was designed and built in 1936 according to plans by the Dornbirn architect Emanuel Thurnher . The figure of the reclining soldier comes from Franz Plunder (1935/36).
literature
- DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Vorarlberg. Hohenems. Parish church hl. Karl Borromeo. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7031-0585-2 , p. 247f.
Web links
Coordinates: 47 ° 21 '49 " N , 9 ° 41' 25.2" E
Individual evidence
- ^ 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).
- ↑ ObjectID: 7670.
- ↑ ObjectID: 6918.
- ↑ Arnulf Häfele , Peter Mathis, Im San Toni, Friedhof und Kapelle St. Anton in Hohenems , p. 92f.
- ↑ Arnulf Häfele , Peter Mathis, Im San Toni, Friedhof und Kapelle St. Anton in Hohenems , pp. 17, 37, 49f.
- ↑ ObjectID: 6920.