Simmel Chapel

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View of the Simmel Chapel, the Simmel with the Peace Cross in the background
Interior view of the choir room

The Roman Catholic Simmel Chapel or Simmel chapel stands at the Simmel in the Bregenzerwälder community Warth in the district of Bregenz in Vorarlberg . It is consecrated to St. James and belongs to the Warth parish in the Hinterwald dean's office in the Feldkirch diocese . The chapel is under monument protection ( list entry ). Until it was dissolved as an independent parish, the chapel was once the parish church of Hochkrumbach .

Location description

The church is on Simmel, a hill south of the former salt road on the Hochtannberg Pass .

history

A chapel on the Simmel is mentioned in a document as early as 1550. The church was originally a branch church of the Lech am Arlberg parish , was elevated to a chaplaincy in 1678 and an independent parish church in 1687. The church was rebuilt between 1681 and 1682. The tower was built in 1719 by Gregor Bertold from Dalaas . In 1730 a sacristy was added. The stucco ceiling was created by Johann Walch from Schröcken . The church was consecrated in 1781. The parish has not been occupied since 1856; in 1867 it was incorporated into the Warth parish . The former rectory east of the church was demolished in 1917. On August 3, 2013, the Simmel Chapel was badly damaged by lightning. As a result, large parts of the tower and the cross had to be renewed and the tower ball renovated. After this work was completed, the chapel was reopened to the public on September 28, 2014 by the Diocesan Bishop of Feldkirch, Benno Elbs, as part of a “Peace Mass on Simmel”, which was preceded by a star pilgrimage . At the same time a new high altar was inaugurated.

architecture

Church exterior

The church is a rectangular building with a retracted choir under a hipped roof . Above the choir is an octagonal church tower with a pointed helmet. A single-storey sacristy adjoins the choir on the north side.

Church interior

The nave has two arched windows on both sides. Above the nave is a flat barrel vault over a cornice. On the retracted triumphal arch is the year of the renovation: 1932. The choir has moved in with a straight end. Above it is a barrel vault with a cornice. The nave ceiling consists of stucco fields and cartridges .

Furnishing

The high altar has two pillars decorated with vine leaves and dates from 1662. The altarpiece depicts the Visitation of the Virgin Mary. It was painted by Martha Strele . The left side altar is a baroque altar structure with two twisted columns. The altarpiece shows St. Bartholomew and was painted by Alfons Luger. The right side altar has the same structure as the left altar, only the altarpiece depicts St. Lawrence. The picture was painted by Franz Lins .

literature

Web links

Commons : Hochkrumbach parish church  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vorarlberg - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento of July 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), ( CSV ( Memento of July 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive )] in September 2017). Federal Monuments Office , as of June 8, 2017.
  2. ↑ Simmel Chapel “damaged by lightning”. In: Vorarlberg Online . Retrieved July 25, 2017 .
  3. ^ Jodok Müller: St. Jakobus Chapel on the Simmel in Hochkrumbach . In: Walser home . No. 96 , February 2015, p. 415 ( available online on the Vorarlberger Walservereinigung website).

Coordinates: 47 ° 16 ′ 7.1 ″  N , 10 ° 8 ′ 9.5 ″  E