Parish Church Lauterach (Vorarlberg)
The Roman Catholic parish church Lauterach is located in the center of the market town of Lauterach in the Bregenz district in Vorarlberg . The parish church , consecrated to St. George , belongs to the Bregenz deanery of the Feldkirch diocese . The church is a listed building .
history
Originally a branch of Bregenz, a chapel was documented in 1227, a church in 1476, a chaplain in 1443, and a parish in 1618.
The new church built in 1878/1879 according to the plans of the architect and builder Josef Anton Albrich was consecrated in 1887. In 1907 the tower was raised.
In 1959 the church was restored outside and 1970 inside. In 2018 and 2019 the church was completely renovated and expanded with the addition of a parish center.
architecture
The simple neo-Romanesque nave building with a transept has a west tower integrated into the facade. The nave under a gable roof with a round arch frieze under the roof has round arched windows. The transept under a gable roof with a round arch frieze has a straight end with a gable facade with a tooth cut frieze. The low choir apse has an arched frieze. To the south of the choir is a two-storey sacristy extension. The west facade with a serrated frieze has arched niches with two arched windows and two circular windows. The west tower from 1879 integrated into the facade was raised in 1907 and wears a helmet, it has a high basement with a round arched entrance hall with a cross vault and shows a pilaster structure with a round arch frieze. Above the entrance portal is a figure of St. George with two putti from the 18th century. The upper floor of the tower has chamfered corners, arched sound openings and triangular gables with arched sound openings and a round arch frieze.
The interior of the church shows a six-bay hall with a flat wooden field barrel. The nave is extended in the sixth yoke with side chapels and thus shows a three-axis choir arch arrangement with a three-aisled front yoke to the central single-yoke choir with a semicircular apse. The side chapels and the three-aisled front yoke have groin vaults, the choir a barrel vault with a belt arch and in the apse has stitch caps with ribs on column consoles.
Ferdinand Kaltenbach (1893) painted the frescoes in the apse God the Father with angels on a gold background. Josef Huber painted the frescoes of the four church fathers on the pilasters, on the left choir wall Maria and Child in the sea storm based on the sea battle of Lepanto of 1577, on the right choir wall the procession through the Red Sea with Moses. The frescoes in the nave from backwards to the front Coronation of Mary with signs of the zodiac in medallion frame, Saints John the Baptist, Helena, Michael, Cäcilia, on the left side of the vault angels with principality, angels with Juridicum making music, angels with Gratia, angels with Raphael, angels with Hourglass, circle and globe, gentlemen with angels making music, forces with angels with censer and thrones, on the right side of the vault angel with chalice before Christ, Chamael, angel with Gloria in excelsis Deo, Annunciation, Gabriel with angel and Cerubin, God the Father with Seraphim, Guardian Angel with Tobias, Guardian Angel with Singing Angel, Powers, painted by Kaspar Rick (1882). Gottlieb Schuller created the glass paintings with the Tiroler Glasmalereianstalt (1950), in the choir Adoration of the Magi and in small windows ears of corn and grapes on the left and monstrance and chalice on the right, in the nave on the left cross, chalice, oil lamp and purgatory, Cecilia, Christ with disciples, wedding of Canaan, communion, mantle Madonna in the chapel on the left, Annunciation, in the nave on the right the Holy Family in the workshop, Christ the King in the chapel on the right, Christ and children, Christ heals the sick, Christ and Peter, King David, hourglass and skull, at the Facade in circular windows on the left crown and lily and on the right scales.
Furnishing
Moritz Schlachter built the high altar with a neo-Romanesque structure. The figures in the middle of the crucifixion group, on the left Karl Borromeo, on the right, John the Baptist, predella reliefs on the left, the wedding in Canaan, on the right, the Sermon on the Mount, the multiplication of bread, the tabernacle with the Lamb of God and the crucifix were created by the sculptor Franz Schmalzl.
The two side altars were created by the sculptor Franz Xaver Rädler with figures from the Mayer'schen Hofkunstanstalt in Munich. The pulpit was created by Franz Xaver Rädler with figures and reliefs by Franz Schmalzl.
The organ was built by Anton Behmann in 1883 . A bell from 1733 is named by Christian Schmid and Johann Baptist A Porta.
graveyard
The arcaded cemetery is to the west of the church across the street. The war memorial hall with a gable roof and turret has a figure of a reclining soldier based on a design by the sculptor Gottfried Bechtold , made by the sculptor Franz Plunder. In the cemetery extension towards the west there is a new funeral hall and arcades according to plans by the group of architects C 4 (1970/1971).
See also
- Lourdes Chapel in Kapellenstrasse , subordinate to the Lauterach parish church.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Vorarlberg 1983 . Lauterach, parish church hl. Georg, Friedhof, pp. 283-284.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Lauteracher Church: Ceiling is being restored" in: vorarlberg.orf.at (accessed on August 3, 2019)
Coordinates: 47 ° 28 '28.3 " N , 9 ° 43' 53.1" E