Alpine Chapel Wirmboden / Innauer-Matt Architects
In the Bregenzerwald, an alpine valley in Western Austria, transhumance is still the commonly practised form of farming: Livestock is driven to graze on mountain pastures in the warmer months. The lower ones of these pastures are called Vorsäß while the higher ones, used in the warmest summer months, are called Alpe.
© Adolf Bereuter
Architects: Innauer-Matt Architects
Location: 6882 Schnepfau, Austria
Area: 6.0 m2
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Adolf Bereuter
Statics: Merz Kley Partner
Construction Supervision: Karlheinz Gasser
© Adolf Bereuter
From the architect. In the Bregenzerwald, an alpine valley in Western Austria, transhumance is still the commonly practised form of farming: Livestock is driven to graze on mountain pastures in the warmer months. The lower ones of these pastures are called Vorsäß while the higher ones, used in the warmest summer months, are called Alpe.
© Adolf Bereuter
Wirmboden is a Vorsäß at the foot of the steep north face of the valley?s Kanisfluh mountain, owned and managed by a collective of farmers. Almost every Vorsäß has its own little chapel or at least some designated space for the celebration of masses and the traditional consecration of the farmers and their livestock.
© Adolf Bereuter
For 32 years there was a little chapel at Wirmboden, but in 2012, the chapel and several huts were destroyed by an ...
© Adolf Bereuter
Architects: Innauer-Matt Architects
Location: 6882 Schnepfau, Austria
Area: 6.0 m2
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Adolf Bereuter
Statics: Merz Kley Partner
Construction Supervision: Karlheinz Gasser
© Adolf Bereuter
From the architect. In the Bregenzerwald, an alpine valley in Western Austria, transhumance is still the commonly practised form of farming: Livestock is driven to graze on mountain pastures in the warmer months. The lower ones of these pastures are called Vorsäß while the higher ones, used in the warmest summer months, are called Alpe.
© Adolf Bereuter
Wirmboden is a Vorsäß at the foot of the steep north face of the valley?s Kanisfluh mountain, owned and managed by a collective of farmers. Almost every Vorsäß has its own little chapel or at least some designated space for the celebration of masses and the traditional consecration of the farmers and their livestock.
© Adolf Bereuter
For 32 years there was a little chapel at Wirmboden, but in 2012, the chapel and several huts were destroyed by an ...
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