Parish Church Sulz (Vorarlberg)
The Roman Catholic parish church Sulz stands on the church hill in the municipality of Sulz in the Feldkirch district in Vorarlberg . The parish church , consecrated to St. George , belongs to the Rankweil deanery of the Feldkirch diocese . The church is a listed building .
history
The original branch of the Liebfrauenbergkirche in Rankweil became a chaplain in 1460 and a parish in 1843. In the middle of the 15th century there was a George Chapel. A new building was erected at the end of the 17th century. In 1831 the church was enlarged with master builder meat. In 1903/1904 a new church was built according to the plans of the master builder Josef Schöch and consecrated in 1905. In 1960 there was a restoration. From 1970 to 1972 the church was redesigned with the visual artist Willi Buck . Glass windows by Willi Buck from the Stella Matutina in Feldkirch were also transferred here. 1972 a vestibule was added.
architecture
The neo-Romanesque church building has a nave under a gable roof, a transept and a recessed lower choir with a round apse. The north tower has a pointed gable helmet. The nave shows double stepped buttresses, the transept shows a gable facade. The nave, the transept, the choir and the west facade are structured with arched friezes and arched windows above a high cornice. The west facade also has pilaster strips and corner pillars. The vestibule has three axes under a monopitch roof. On the north side of the nave is a portal with a sign . The tower is three-story, has a round arch frieze, coupled round arch sound openings and a flat gable-pointed helmet. A two-storey sacristy is built on the south side of the transept and choir.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Vorarlberg 1983 . Sulz, parish church St. Georg, pp. 387-388.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Willi Buck (1911-1997) Luminous Pictures. Stained glass windows of the churches in Vorarlberg. Retrieved November 7, 2016
Coordinates: 47 ° 17 ′ 1.1 ″ N , 9 ° 39 ′ 14.8 ″ E