Parish church Klaus (Vorarlberg)
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The Roman Catholic parish church Klaus stands on a hill in the municipality of Klaus in the Feldkirch district in Vorarlberg . The parish church , consecrated to St. Agnes, belongs to the Rankweil deanery of the Feldkirch diocese . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection .
history
A chapel was mentioned in a document in 1265. A church was built around 1500 . In 1840 the church was enlarged and restored in 1889. In 1896 the church was lengthened and transepts added. 1970/1971 was a restoration.
architecture
A lower transept in the bent gable front adjoins the neo-Gothic nave with pointed arch windows. The nave gable front has a pointed arch portal , two pointed arch windows and a circular window in the gable field, the transept has two bent gable fronts with two pointed arched windows each and a quadruple window in the gable field. The portal from 1896 has copper-driven portal doors by the sculptor Willi Veith. The retracted Gothic choir with a three-eighth closure has two pointed arch windows with tracery . The north tower at the choir has coupled pointed arch sound openings and has a pointed gable helmet . To the south of the nave and choir is a single-storey sacristy extension .
The nave has a flat wooden ceiling and four pointed arch windows on each side. The retracted choir arch is ogival. The raised, drawn -in two-bay choir closes with a three-eighth end and has a mesh rib vault with single grooved ribs on consoles . The tracery glass windows show a glass painting with the signature Joh. Rauch 70. The wooden gallery in the transept shows evangelist symbols on the parapet as a notch cut by the painter Konrad Honold .
To the north of the nave is a war memorial created by the sculptor Albert Bechtold .
Furnishing
A crucifix by the sculptor Erasmus Kern around 1640 hangs on the front wall of the choir. The folk altar, ambo and baptismal font were created by Deutschmann (1971). Konrad Honold (1971) created the tabernacle and the Easter candlestick with mosaic .
Since 1807, relics of St. Apronian in the church.
The organ from 1797 was built by Johann Adam Amann. It received a pedal extension in 1871 and was restored and expanded in 1971 by Neidhardt & Lhôte . Franz Joseph Felix names a bell in 1737.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Vorarlberg 1983 . Klaus, parish church of St. Agnes, pp. 268-269.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 18 ′ 43.3 " N , 9 ° 38 ′ 52.8" E