Wallfahrtskirche Mariä Geburt

The Wallfahrtskirche Mariä Geburt stands in the village of Stallehr in Vorarlberg. It is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage church under Denkmalschutz. Tradition says an Einsiedler named Johann Eble built a small chapel around 1640. In 1750 Heinrich Bagehr led a major rebuilding or enlargement. Early in the 19th century the nave was extended again.

The church shows three centuries of craftsmanship. A stone-arched round doorway, topped by a 1900 image of Mary and the Child, leads inside. The brothers Bertle made the high altar with its neo-Romanesque tabernacle. Figures of Mary and Child date from 1640, while statues of Saint Barbara and Saint Katharina belong to the mid-18th century. Above the sacristy door hangs a mid-18th-century statue of Saint Josef with the Christ Child. A 19th-century crucifix hangs in the chancel arch.

Inside, a 1640 fresco of Mary’s Nativity covers the nave wall. Hubert Fritz painted the glass windows in 1953, showing symbols of the Hand of God, a tower, Pentecost and the Eucharist. A single bell cast by Josef Graßmayr in 1733 still rings. The roof is a single pitched span over nave and choir, with a small spire above the chancel.