Mittelberg Parish Church (Vorarlberg)

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Catholic parish church hl. Jodok in Mittelberg
inside view

The Roman Catholic parish church Mittelberg is located in the municipality Mittelberg in Kleinwalsertal in the Bregenz district in Vorarlberg . It is consecrated to St. Jodok and belongs to the deanery of Vorderwald-Kleinwalsertal in the diocese of Feldkirch . The building is a listed building .

history

A stone walled in on the southwest side of the choir shows joß AMA in 1302 . On the west wall of the choir, a walled stone shows the year 1303. The tower shows the year 1371 and 1374. A church as a branch of Fischen im Allgäu was consecrated in 1390 and raised in 1391 to a parish church. In 1463 the church was rebuilt and consecrated. From 1693 to 1694 the nave was redesigned and expanded in Baroque style and a sacristy was added to the choir and tower.

architecture

Church exterior

The church stands in the rear Kleinwalsertal to the left of the Breitach on an elevated place in the north-west of Mittelberg and is surrounded in the south-west by a walled cemetery. The nave with a choir under a shared gable roof has a high tower in the east. The nave is structured with five arched windows on each side. The side nave portal to the cemetery is a chamfered round arch portal. The portal on the north gable side is a neo-Romanesque arched portal. The gable side has two small arched windows and a Tondo relief with the dove of the Holy Spirit and a sun and with R. 1896 BC. K MCCCII F. designated. The choir has five arched windows. The high tower with a pointed gable helmet has a bell house with round-arched triphoria to the south, west and east. In the eastern gable of the tower is a clock with a painted coat of arms with the Austrian shield and the imperial eagle.

Church interior

The nave has a flat ceiling over a hollow. On the left is a narrow arched opening to the tower. The retracted round arched choir arch has a stucco reveal. The two-bay retracted choir with 3/8 end has a stitch cap vault on wall pilasters. The capitals are set with putti heads. A chamfered round arch portal on the left with 1663 is the entrance to the sacristy. The north gallery with a straight parapet stands on two iron supports and has a staircase on both sides. The baroque stucco of the church choir with bead strips, rhomboid fields and quatrefoil fields and the capitals with putti heads are from the 17th century. The stucco in the nave with flower tendrils and corner shells is from the 19th century.

Frescoes on the left nave wall, on the left four rows from the 15th century, on the right between two columns from the 16th century

A fresco in the first yoke of the choir on the left from the beginning of the 16th century shows the crucifixion group with a curtain. In the second yoke around the sacraments niche is a fresco with two kneeling angels with candles and above the niche the Man of Sorrows with two angels and two figures only with outline drawing from the end of the 16th century. Further frescoes in the choir show crosses of the apostles and baroque canopies in the corners of the choir and on the right a crucifix with Saints Mary, Magdalena and Johannes Evangelist from the second half of the 16th century. On the choir arch is a representation of the Last Judgment. On the left wall of the nave, the life of Christ from the creation of the world, the Annunciation, the Entombment and the Depiction of Salvator by a Berchtoldt at the end of the 15th century was painted in four strips and was accompanied by the death of Mary and the Holy Trinity in the 16th century painted columns framed complements.

The former baroque ceiling paintings were repainted in 1882 by Johann Kärle from the Tyrolean Lech Valley in Nazarene style, on the choir arch Lamm Gottes with Book of the Seven Seals, Saints Jodok and Theodul over Mittelberg, in the middle the Assumption of Mary, behind the death of Josef. In the corner medallions in the back Nikolaus and Cäcilia and in front Johannes donates communion and the return of the prodigal son. In the middle picture on the left the handing over of the keys to Peter and on the right the dispatch of the apostles.

The glass painting in the nave on the left with Elisabeth and Nikolaus and on the right with Konrad, Mauritius, Wendelin, Antonius, Jesus painted in 1882 and 1915 by the glass painter A. Brückl from Munich.

Furnishing

Longhouse against gallery

The high altar with a structure with two columns from 1706 from Riezlern carries as a central figure Maria with child from the middle of the 18th century and a figure of St. Vincent. The tabernacle with a standing cross was built around 1760. The left side altar bears the figure of Pietà from the middle of the 17th century. The right side altar bears the figure of the Heart of Jesus by Fidelis Rudhart from the beginning of the 20th century. The neo-Romanesque pulpit bears the four evangelist figures on the basket and Maria Immaculate on the sound cover. The baptismal font has a cupa with reliefs of the evangelist symbols, St. Katharina, binding shield, coat of arms of Saxony, St. Jodok labeled LSM 1495. The Stations of the Cross was painted by L. Caspar Weiß von Rettenberg in 1835. The confessionals in the choir are from the end of the 17th century. The neo-Gothic choir stalls have five seats. The choir arch crucifix with three putti and goblet was made around 1760. The paintings around 1760 on the gallery show Aloysius and Maria vom Guten Rat. The painting above the right side portal around 1780 shows Mary with child.

organ

The organ was built by Josef Zeilhuber .

literature

Web links

Commons : Pfarrkirche Mittelberg (Vorarlberg)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vorarlberg - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from June 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 21, 2016 (PDF).

Coordinates: 47 ° 19 ′ 25.5 "  N , 10 ° 9 ′ 15.3"  E