Tschagguns parish church
The parish and pilgrimage church of the Birth of the Virgin Mary is a Roman Catholic church in Tschagguns in the Montafon . It is surrounded by a cemetery.
location
The church stands free soon behind the bridge over the Ill on the ledge called Kirchenstein Kilkaste at the entrance to the village. As the sun is in the course of the day, the light falls from the outside freely through many windows into the church, which is bright and flooded with light.
church
The mighty baroque nave with a Gothic choir under a shared saddle roof was later supplemented with lower aisles. The south aisle was built in 1752. The 43 m high church tower was rebuilt in 1783 under the builder Siegele and provided with an onion dome with a lantern. A large-scale expansion with the construction of the north aisle, an increase in the choir and lengthening of all aisles took place under Johann Nepomuk Bitschnau from 1812 to 1814 and was re-consecrated in 1820.
Outside the choir is a war memorial with a fresco Dead Soldier by Hans Bertle from 1929.
Inside are the frescoes The Burnt Offering , Moses in front of the burning bush , the consecration of the temple by King Solomon , the election of Saul as the first king of Israel and his anointing by the prophet Samuel as well as the Stations of the Cross with stucco framing by Michael Anton Fuetscher from 1814 and were made in Restored in 1956 by Hannes Bertle .
The high altar in the choir with an upper image of St. Ulrich by Franz Bertle appears removed. There is now a baptistery with a baptismal font by Josef Vonier from 1770. In front of it is a solid wood folk altar in the form of a table with four turned column-like legs. The former pulpit on the wall by Josef Vonier from 1777 is now situated on the floor and also serves as an ambo .
There is a painting of Christ with soldiers. 1914-1918. Donated by Arnold Durig in memory of his management of a large military hospital with its own barrack church in Vienna at the time.
organ
The main organ on the gallery of the parish church was built in 1816 by the Alsatian Joseph Bergöntzle in the Alsatian-French style. It has 3 manuals, a pedal and a total of 38 registers. A number of Bergöntzle registers have been completely preserved, others partially, some had to be completely reconstructed based on preserved, historical, Alsatian organs. The keys of the III. Manuals are only available from c. During a checkered history, often to the detriment of the organ (among other things, installation on a later, second, higher gallery, which was connected with a connection to the height of the case, higher tuning = cutting off the pipes, as well as replacement of Bergöntzel's mechanical actions with pneumatic ones at the beginning of the 20th century Her condition worsened. After the friable bellows collapsed, the Swiss organ builders Georges Lhote and Ferdinand Stemmer extensively restored it to the layout of 1816 in 1994. Among other things, the case and the prospect pipes were restored to their original height, which can be seen from the soldered-on extensions of the sound boxes of these pipes. The entire mechanical play system, which was lost with the pneumatization, had to be rebuilt. In addition to the electric fan, the organ can still be fed with wind by means of a human-powered bellows. Furthermore it has the church a custom built in Romania, headed by Stemmer chest organ from 2011, even with bellows operated Styrian house organ and a Portativ .
literature
- DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Vorarlberg. Tschagguns. Parish Church of Our Lady of the Birth of Mary. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7031-0585-2 , p. 396f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bruno Oberhammer; Michael Kasper: Montafon Organ Landscape , 2016, ISBN 978-3-902225-69-6
- ↑ Information sheet with the disposition, was available in the church in 2015/16.
- ^ Report by the Tschagguns pastor Peter Bitschnau at a book and CD presentation in the Tschagguns parish church on October 15, 2016
Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 41.6 ″ N , 9 ° 54 ′ 8.2 ″ E