Rankweil-St. Peter

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Catholic parish church hl. Petrus in Rankweil, in front of that the monument to Josef Sigmund Nachbauer
View to the altar

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Peter is in the market town of Rankweil in the Feldkirch district in Vorarlberg . The parish church consecrated to St. Peter belongs to the Rankweil deanery of the Feldkirch diocese . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection .

history

The church was owned by the Bishop of Chur in 881 and was the mother church of the Petronilla Chapel in Altenstadt , St. Nicholas Cathedral in Feldkirch, and the churches in Röthis , Klaus , Montlingen, Meiningen , Koblach , Sulz and Göfis . From 1238 to 1806 the church was owned by the Kreuzlingen monastery . In 1833 the church was subordinated to the Church of Our Lady in Rankweil as the vicariate church. The parish title was restored in 1885 and 1891.

architecture

The church stands in a walled cemetery with an ossuary integrated into the cemetery wall . The church is a Romanesque choir tower church with strong masonry with a gable roof. A sacristy with a pent roof is attached to the north of the tower. In the years 1624 to 1627 the church was redesigned in Baroque style and in 1731 the church tower on the upper floor was redesigned with an onion dome.

Furnishing

The high altar with two columns and a round-arched end from the 2nd half of the 18th century shows an altarpiece handing over the keys to St. Peter , inscribed with Fr. Bobleter p. 1855 . The figure of Mary with child instead of an altarpiece on the left side altar is by Erasmus Kern . The carved figures on the right side altar are by Dominikus Trenkwalder from 1890 and 1892.

The south portal has copper-driven doors Christ the Shepherd by the sculptor Josef Baumgartner . The organ from 1873 by Alois Schönach was rebuilt in 1958.

literature

  • The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Vorarlberg 1983 . Rankweil, parish church of St. Petrus, with floor plan, pp. 337–338.
  • Maria Bader: The parish church of St. Peter in Rankweil . In: Vorarlberger Landesmuseumsverein, Friends of Regional Studies (ed.): Yearbook , ISSN  1011-8748 , year 2016, pp. 140–163.

Web links

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Coordinates: 47 ° 16 ′ 9.8 ″  N , 9 ° 38 ′ 32.1 ″  E