Lake Chapel Bregenz
The Seekapelle is a mass chapel on Rathausstrasse in Bregenz in the Bregenz district of Vorarlberg . The 1663 built chapel to St. George and Our Lady ordained . The chapel belongs to the parish Bregenz-St. Gallus in the Bregenz deanery of the Feldkirch diocese . The chapel is under monument protection ( list entry ).
Location description
The chapel is located at the intersection of Anton-Schneider-Straße and Rathausstraße in the city center of Bregenz, in the immediate vicinity of the Leutbühel . The town hall of Bregenz is directly connected to the chapel on the west side .
history
The chapel was donated by the city of Bregenz to commemorate the victory in the Battle of Bregenz on January 13, 1408 in the course of the Appenzell Wars and built on the lake shore in 1445. It was dedicated to St. George, the dragon conqueror - see St. Jörgen shield - and St. Hilarius of Poitiers , the day saint of the battle (January 13th). The church was rebuilt around 1500 and enlarged in 1644. The current church was rebuilt between 1696 and 1698 by the city of Bregenz and the Deuring family according to plans by Christian Thumb by master bricklayer Kaspar Held . In 1989/90 the interior was renovated according to plans by architect Klaus Reininger .
architecture
- Church exterior
The church is a simple nave building with a drawn-in choir, rounded on the sloping sides, with flat arched windows. The nave and choir are under a shared gable roof . A three-story, octagonal tower with an onion helmet is attached to the front of the choir . The upper floors of the tower are divided by a cornice and corner pilasters . On the third floor there are three sound windows with balustrades. Niche figures stand above the three-dimensionally structured portals: a figure of St. Nicholas is above the south portal and a figure of St. Hilary above the north portal. On the rounded sides of the choir, St. Michael is depicted above the south window and St. George is depicted above the north window. All figures are probably by Johann Winkel from around 1700. On the south side of the chapel of the nave hangs a plaque to the Bregenz dialect poet Kaspar Hagen by Albert Bechtold from 1923. On the east side is a memorial to the Bregenz victims of the National Socialist tyranny let in. It was donated by the city in 1988.
- Church interior
The chapel is a single-nave prayer room, which is divided by pilasters. Above it is a needle cap barrel vault. The 3/8 choir has moved in and has stitch cap vaults. The gallery rests on two columns.
Furnishing
The high altar is a Renaissance shrine from 1615. This was created by Esaias Gruber the Younger and was originally in Hofen Castle . In the center shrine there is a crucifix group with the Mother of Sorrows . In the top there are figures of Saints John the Baptist and John (Evangelist) . There are two heraldic cartouches on the straight entablature. In the rectangular niches around the crucifix group are plaster casts depicting the Passion of Christ. Most of the original wooden reliefs are now kept in the Vorarlberg Museum . They were created in Antwerp around 1515 .
The left side altar is a four-pillar structure with two twisted columns from around 1700. The painting depicts the resurrection of Christ , the crucifixion can be seen in the top picture. Two angels sit on the entablature.
The right side altarpiece shows Mary with St. Hilary. Saint Hilary was the patron saint of the battle of 1408. The picture also shows Saints George, Nicholas and Leonhard . The picture was painted by Philipp Albert Zehender .
In a niche on the back wall of the chapel there is a clay head of the apostle Judas Thaddäus , created by the Bregenz baroque sculptor Franz Anton Kuen . The tomb of the Deuring family is also located inside the church.
organ
The organ was built in 1900 by the Mayer brothers .
Bell jar
The bell was cast in 1758.
literature
- DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Vorarlberg. Bregenz. Lake chapel. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7031-0585-2 , pp. 83f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Vorarlberg - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from April 18, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), ( CSV ( Memento from August 31, 2018 in the Internet Archive )). Federal Monuments Office , as of January 26, 2018.
Coordinates: 47 ° 30 ′ 11.4 " N , 9 ° 44 ′ 49.5" E