Parish Church Nenzing
The Roman Catholic parish church Nenzing is in the market town of Nenzing in Walgau in Vorarlberg . The parish church , consecrated to St. Mauritius , belongs to the Walgau-Walsertal deanery in the Feldkirch diocese . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
One church was named around 842 with in Nanzingas ecclesia . In 948 Otto I donated an own church to the Bishop of Chur. In 1669 early measurement pensions were donated. Today's church has a tower substructure around 1300, a choir around 1450, a nave , which was expanded after a fire in 1633 1634, consecrated in 1637 and extended in 1852. Restorations were in 1900, 1955 and 1982/1983. During the excavation in 1982 a Carolingian complex was discovered.
architecture
The church building in the middle of Nenzing is surrounded by a cemetery. The church has a baroque nave and a Gothic choir under a shared gable roof. The gable roof was hewn over the west facade . The south tower has a pointed gable helmet. The two-storey sacristy attached to the north of the choir has a hipped roof.
During the excavation in 1982 a Carolingian church complex was excavated. A stilted main apse is north scheduled a small apse. A free-standing cafeteria with a rear alcove was found. There were six foundation graves in the main apse. The Carolingian complex was encased with an early Gothic choir with a seven-twelfth part and is encased with today's Gothic choir with a five- eighth part.
The nave with pointed arched windows has two rectangular portals with signs on two columns in the south wall under shortened windows. The portal in the north wall has a door relief with symbols of transience with a scythe, hourglass and a broken candle. The west facade has four semicircular windows and a rectangular portal with a sign on two pillars. In the apex of the choir is a circular window. The south tower shows round arch niches, a straight cornice and superimposed flat arch sound openings. The north side of the tower has a Romanesque sound hole . The tower has a pointed gable helmet from 1852 and shows a fresco Mauritius and Agatha by the painter Albert Rauch (1952).
The interior of the church shows a six-bay nave with a stitch cap vault on double pilasters with a common cornice with stucco capitals and stucco cartouches halfway up and profiled stucco molding frames on the windows. The retracted round arched choir arch shows stuccoed rocaille . The retracted two-bay choir has a mesh rib vault with two round keystones and ribs resting on consoles. The west gallery on four columns and a straight parapet extends deep over three bays.
The frescoes in the nave, in front of the Whitsun miracle, in the middle the resurrection of Christ, backwards Adoration of the Shepherds, were painted by the painter Johann Matthias Jehly (1792). The nave part added in 1852 shows the picture of the Assumption of the Virgin by the painter Alfons Luger (1900). There are other paintings in gusseted cartouches. The stained glass in the choir from the 19th century shows Josef on the left and Andreas on the right.
Furnishing
Fidelis Rudhart created the high altar with a neo-Gothic structure in 1907. It shows the altarpiece Trinity and bears the figures of Johannes Evangelist and Wendelin, Anna and Katharina and Mauritius in the upper part . Side reliefs show the communion of John and Manna rain . The tabernacle bears two angels. The reliefs on the antependium show the sacrifice of Isaac and the sacrifice of Melchizedech and in the middle the bronze serpent. The former high altar figures Peter and Paul on the sides of the choir arch and Nikolaus and Luzius on the south wall were created by the sculptor Josef Klemens Witwer . The former high altar painting Mauritius was painted by the painter Josef Bucher.
The side altars are from 1770/1771. The left side altar bears the figure of Madonna by the sculptor Albert Winkler and shows God the Father in the upper image. The right side altar shows St. Agatha as the second church patroness above the village of Nenzing, painted by Bertle and shows Antonius of Padua in the upper picture. The pulpit from 1771 bears the figures of faith, hope and love and in the pulpit top the pastoral office is handed over by Jesus to Peter.
On the choir arch are priest grave stones, on the left Rupert Stachnis 1709 and Petrus Luz 1731, on the right Franziskus Radam 1708.
The organ with 17 registers was built by the organ building company Mayer from Altenstadt (1912).
graveyard
In the north there is a brick niche chapel with a sign on four columns and shows a painting of the Rosary Madonna with Dominic and Catherine of Siena over purgatory from the 18th century in a niche. On the east wall is a painting Agatha from 1715 and Maria with child, Jakobus and Ursula with an inscription and 1775. At the cemetery there are wrought-iron grave crosses from the beginning of the 19th century.
The war memorial was created by Emil Gehrer (1966).
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Vorarlberg 1983 . Nenzing, parish church St. Mauritius, pp. 320–321.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Vorarlberg - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. (PDF), ( CSV ). Federal Monuments Office , status: 23 January 2019.
Coordinates: 47 ° 11 ′ 8.7 " N , 9 ° 42 ′ 15.6" E