Parish church St. Anton in the Montafon
The parish church of St. Antonius der Einsiedler is a Roman Catholic church in the municipality of St. Anton in the Montafon in Vorarlberg . It is a listed building
history
The Antonius Chapel , consecrated to Saint Antonius Eremita , was founded in 1376 by a foundation by Otto von Zalans as a branch of the Laurentius Church in Bludenz . From 1412 it was run as a curate and in 1646 raised to an independent parish. In 1651 the parish church was consecrated. In 1791 the tower was expanded and rebuilt. From 1989 to 1990 the nave was extended to the north with a side aisle according to the plans of the architect Heinz-Peter Jehly. The furnishings of the church were postponed, the high altar was placed on the right (southern) nave wall and the church was thus aligned from north to south.
Architecture and equipment
The church standing on a hillside is north, up the slope, surrounded by a cemetery. The nave and choir are under a common gable roof. The choir has moved south. The tower and a single-storey sacristy are also located there. A lower extension was built in front of the west facade under a hipped roof with a generous sign .
The high altar picture shows Saint Anthony the hermit with the attribute of the pig and its importance for the cattle industry of the place, painted in 1874 by the East Swiss Nazarene painter Melchior Paul von Deschwanden with the help of the Schruns painter Franz Bertle . Deschwanden was the second generation teacher at Bertle with a Nazarene-style picture of Saints Martin and Sebastian on the side altar. Father Josef Anton Bertle painted the popular Stations of the Cross in 1843.
In 1907 the Vorarlberg glass painting workshop in Dornbirn supplied the church windows that depict St. Catherine and St. Show John the Evangelist.
The northern extension of the baroque church by architect Heinz-Peter Jehly with a rotation of the facility by 90 degrees and with the lower resolution of the left nave wall with a steel and concrete construction and the exposure of the new aisle via two steep dormers is an architectural example of the second generation of the new Vorarlberger building school . It is noteworthy that the external appearance of the church from the south (valley side) has remained unchanged and the new architecture is surprising on the mountain side.
In the church wall under the sign there are grave tablets of pastors Leonhard Widerin, Johannes Eusebius Netzer and Johann Josef Domenikus Fritz from the 18th and 19th centuries. On the north wall of the nave in the cemetery is a memorial plaque of the military, veterans and reservists' association for Landammann and Rifle Captain Johann Josef Batlogg (1751–1800).
literature
- Dehio Vorarlberg 1983 , St. Anton im Montafon, parish church hl. Antonius Hermit, page 349.
- Andreas Rudigier : Montafon . A short cultural history guide. Special volume for the Montafon series of publications 7, Heimatschutzverein Montafon , Schruns 2009, ISBN 978-3-902225-36-8 , page 33ff.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 6 '53.8 " N , 9 ° 51' 48.6" E