Viktorsberg parish church
The Roman Catholic parish church Viktorsberg is in the municipality of Viktorsberg in Vorarlberg . The parish church in honor of St. Viktor belongs to the Rankweil deanery in the Feldkirch diocese . The south-facing church building with the local cemetery in front of it is a listed building and structurally forms a square courtyard with the former Viktorsberg monastery .
history
The Viktorsberg parish church was initially the monastery church of the former Schottenkloster built after 834 . It is one of the oldest Christian settlements in Vorarlberg. This first Christian settlement was founded with the Irish saint Eusebius von Rankweil . At least one prayer cell (possibly also his inclusion cell ) is said to have been built with Eusebius , in which he is said to have laid his severed head on the altar of this church (cell) on January 31, 884. Saint Eusebius is said to have lived and worked in Viktorsberg for 30 to 50 years. Even at this time, St. Victor was venerated here.
In 882, at the request of St. Eusebius Viktorsberg , Charlemagne gave it to the St. Gallen monastery . In 885, Charlemagne is said to have given the church of Röthis, including all properties, buildings and people, to the St. Gallen monastery with the stipulation that in Viktorsberg there are always twelve pilgrims (probably monks) accommodated and catered for.
Little is known in writing about the developments and fate of the monastery in the following centuries. It burned down twice, and a lot of old writings are said to have perished. In 1370 Count Rudolf III von Montfort had the church and the monastery building renovated. On September 13, 1383, the newly built monastery was handed over to the Minorites . In 1398 the House of Austria acquired the bailiwick over the Minorite monastery.
In 1642 the monastery burned down completely after being struck by lightning.
The Viktorsberg monastery, still looked after by the Minorites, was closed in 1782/1783 by imperial order. In the 18th century the church was baroque.
In 1960 the church was expanded and the current tower with an octagonal upper floor and dome was added.
The last renovation of the church was completed in 2009.
On September 1st, 2014 the parish association Sulz - Viktorsberg was decided.
architecture
The church and monastery building as a square courtyard 880 m above sea level. A. is in a location dominating the town on the main road (L 70), which ends a few hundred meters further at the Viktorsberg lung sanatorium - a branch of the Feldkirch regional hospital .
The central late Romanesque nave and the eastern Gothic choir under a shared saddle roof form the southern front of the square courtyard with the western tower. The double-covered buttresses on the choir have tracery in the upper part. The pointed arch windows show a hollow with a crossed round bar. The south front at the choir shows the painted coat of arms of Austria and Montfort . The tower has an octagonal upper floor with four arched sound openings and has a domed roof. There is a porch under a pent roof.
A round arch portal and an entrance hall north of the tower open up the interior of the church. The two-bay nave has a stitch cap barrel vault and in the west a gallery with a flat ceiling. Behind the drawn-in round triumphal arch there is a one-and-a-half-bay choir in the width of the nave with a five-eighth end. The choir is vaulted with a single grooved ribbed vault on consoles with a keystone with the Montfort coat of arms.
The fresco Train of the Blessed on the right choir wall was created after 1383. Frescoes in the nave show the torture of St. Eusebius, bringing in the head relic of St. Viktor and the legend of St. Eusebius with the founder, Count Rudolf IV.
Furnishing
The high altar with 2 columns and an open entablature from 1752 shows the altarpiece Maria with Child and Francis from 1633 and carries two angels on the entablature around 1630. The tabernacle is from the 19th century. The side altars placed over a corner with a marble structure and volute framing were made around 1760/1770. Jakob Bertle (1898) painted the left altarpiece Anna with Maria with upper image Antonius with Jesus and the right altarpiece Joseph with Jesus with upper image Stanislaus Kosta . There is a shrine with relics of St. Eusebius.
On the left under the gallery is the Chapel of Grace with an altar with the miraculous image of Mary of the Good Council around 1770. On the left of the altar niche is a fresco of St. Elisabeth of Thuringia and on the right the fresco blessed Elisabeth Bona von Reute .
The curved gallery carries the simple organ by Anton Behmann (1895). The organ was restored in 1960 by Gebrüder Mayer and in 2009 by Walter Vonbank-Orgelbau in Triebendorf .
The ring consists of four bells (tuning: d 'e' (f sharp ') a') and was cast in 1962 by the Grassmayr bell foundry in Innsbruck.
literature
- Viktor Wratzfeld: Eusebius vom Viktorsberg. History, legend, cult. A contribution to the history of the Holy Vorarlbergs. Diss., Innsbruck 1971.
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Vorarlberg 1983 . Viktorsberg, parish and former monastery church hl. Viktor, Chapel of Grace, wayside shrine St. Eusebius, on the way to Viktorsberg, pp. 402–403.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ildefons von Arx : Stories of the Canton of St. Gallen , First Volume, St. Gallen 1810, p. 76.
- ↑ Johann Jakob Staffler , " Tyrol and Vorarlberg, statistical and topographical: with historical remarks, in two parts ", Innsbruck 1841, p. 103; and Johannes Duft, " The St. Gallen Abbey: Contributions to the knowledge of their personalities ", Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Stuttgart 1991, pp. 121, 122, 124. ISBN 9783799541541 .
- ^ Website of the Viktorsberg community ( memento of September 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), history.
- ^ Viktorsberg Church: Renovation will be completed soon , November 16, 2009.
- ^ New pastor for Viktorsberg on vol.at from October 6, 2014; and parish introduction in Viktorsberg Website of the parish Sulz .
Coordinates: 47 ° 18 ′ 9.8 " N , 9 ° 40 ′ 38.6" E