Lochau parish church
The Roman Catholic parish church of Lochau is located in the south of the municipality of Lochau in the Bregenz district in Vorarlberg . The parish church , consecrated to St. Francis Xavier , belongs to the Bregenz deanery of the Feldkirch diocese . The church is a listed building .
history
In 1561, Hans Werner von Raitenau tried to raise the St. Oswald Chapel in the hamlet of Hofen to a parish church for Lochau and Hörbranz. The efforts were unsuccessful.
The Franz Xaverius Chapel in the hamlet of Lochau, originally built as a branch of Bregenz in 1706 and consecrated in 1728, was demolished in 1913. It is considered the origin of the Lochau parish. The current church was built in 1844 with the master mason Feuerstein and the master carpenter Gebhard Huber and consecrated in 1849 and raised to the parish church in 1855. In 1932 there was a restoration. The outside of the church was restored in 1970 and the inside in 1972/1973.
architecture
The uniform neo-Romanesque church building has a nave under a hipped roof and a retracted lower choir with a round apse and a west tower. The nave has five arched windows on each long side without any three-dimensional structure. A single-storey sacristy is added to the choir to the north and south. The three-storey west tower, partly integrated into the west facade, with a circumferential cantilevered roof cornice is stepped twice on the second floor and has four arched sound openings on the third floor, which are each connected with two pilasters with cornices running around the corner. The tower has an onion dome with a lantern over a strongly profiled cornice. The main portal in the tower has a rectangular stone frame and a triangular gable on two volutes and a semicircular window above.
The tower vestibule has a groin vault and a round arched arcade to the nave. The five-bay nave has flat barrel vaults with belt arches and stitch caps on triple pilasters with simple architraves and shared acanthus stucco capitals. The retracted single-bay choir with a semicircular apse with a stitch cap vault with belt arches with the same wall structure as in the nave. The west gallery, which extends over two bays, has a flat coffered ceiling on four pillars and ends in three axes with flat arch arcades and a straight parapet.
Furnishing
The high altar with a high base zone and a classicist structure with four columns has a flat top. The high altar picture Adoration of the Shepherds around 1700 was transferred here from the Mehrerau monastery, the upper picture Holy Trinity was created at the end of the 18th century. The high altar bears the figures of Josef on the left and Gebhard on the right by the sculptor Franz Xaver Renn (around 1845). The tabernacle structure with six columns and a volute crown is from 1973.
Instead of the left side altar there is the figure Immaculata from Wangen around 1650/1670. Instead of the right side altar there is a crucifix from the mid-19th century. The pulpit from the end of the 18th century has a curved basket decorated with rocailles with reliefs of Christ under the scribes and tablets of the law and bears the Holy Spirit and putti heads on the sound cover.
The bench docks with symbols of Mary, the Holy Spirit and Jesus were created by the sculptor Gustav Bachmann in 1930, the confessionals in 1930/1931 and the cross-ways reliefs in 1931. The font bears the group of figures Baptism of Christ from the middle of the 19th century.
The organ with a neo-Romanesque case was built by the Mayer brothers in 1897 .
On the right nave wall is a memorial plaque from 1888 for Bishop Joseph Feßler in St. Pölten.
graveyard
The cemetery surrounds the church. The funeral hall was built in 1970/1971 according to plans by Riedmann. The rectangular building under a gable roof carries a tower with arched sound openings with blind arcades and a spherical roof. A crucifix from the 18th century hangs in the entrance hall. There is a stone relief mother with child from the 20th century and a stone figure of St. Georg by the sculptor Albert Bechtold (1923) from the former war memorial. The new war memorial was created by Emil Gehrer (1964). On the right of the church facade is a priest's grave with a relief of the risen by the sculptor Gottfried Bechtold (around 1965).
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Vorarlberg 1983 . Lochau, parish church St. Franz Xaver, with floor plan, cemetery with mortuary, pp. 292–293.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erwin Bennat: Municipal Chronicle Lochau , published by the municipality of Lochau 1986, p. 40
- ↑ Erwin Bennat: Municipal Chronicle Lochau, published by the municipality of Lochau 1986, p 105th
Coordinates: 47 ° 31 '46.7 " N , 9 ° 45' 7.3" E