Provost St. Gerold
The Benedictine provostry Sankt Gerold was founded in 960 and is located in St. Gerold , Vorarlberg. It served as a monastery until 1958, since then as a church meeting place and educational center.
history
The provost's office was the spiritual property of the Einsiedeln monastery and, according to medieval law, had to have a secular guardian (patron). The bailiwick was initially in the hands of the Counts of Montfort before it came to the Thumben von Neuburg .
buildings
The Abbot Adam Heer Chapel, accessible via the monastery, is structurally connected to the provost parish church. The cemetery northeast of the church does not show any graves because the names of the buried dead are simply shown on the church wall or on the cemetery wall. To the east, near the choir, there is a Gothic Chapel of Grace or Antonine Chapel with its own belfry. This originally Romanesque church was consecrated in 1313 and was the parish church of the Great Walser Valley until 1662 . The Wibrhus or women's refuge , which is used as a cultural space, stands next to it. To the south in the middle of the valley in front of the monastery wing there is a monastery garden enclosed by a wall . To the west there are farm buildings, such as a restaurant and a coffee house, and behind that is a large farm with a cow and riding stables.
Provost Parish Church
The Provost Parish Church of St. Gerold is a nave church with a gable roof and a north tower with a pointed gable helmet. It is located north of the monastery wing. Your hall with a flat wooden field ceiling was redesigned under the direction of architect Arnold Stöckli . The sculptures were created by Hugo Imfeld . The entire altar wall is a fresco of the Incarnation of Christ by Ferdinand Gehr from 1966. During excavations between 1965 and 1966, a box grave of St. Gerold von Großwalsertal († 978) found in the original choir room, which can be viewed through its own entrance. There are ten paintings by brother Fridolin Dumeisen on the legend of Gerolds from 1663. The entire interior of the Adam's Chapel is also a painted work of art by Ferdinand Gehr.
In the provost parish church there are a total of three organs , all of which come from the hand of the organ builder Christoph Enzenhofer from Bludesche . The main or mother god organ (1990) has 38 registers on 3 manuals, there is also a positive choir (1988) with 5 registers and a chest organ (4 registers) from 2000. Since all three instruments are tuned the same making music together on all organs is also possible. A composition by Augustinus Franz Kropfreiter, which was premiered here in 2000, takes this fact into account.
literature
- DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Vorarlberg. St. Gerold. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7031-0585-2 , pages 355 f.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 13 ′ 7.7 ″ N , 9 ° 49 ′ 2.2 ″ E