Partenen Village Tour

Partenen tourist office - Bishop Rudigier's birthplace - Vermuntbahn - Gufelste - toll station - church - Partenen tourist office

Parish church of St. Martin, Partenen

From 1925, pastoral care in Partenen also included the immediate welfare of the numerous workers involved in the construction of the power plant facilities in Partenen, on Trominier and in Vermunt. The pastor Konrad Thurnher (1885-1951) worked to establish a workers’ home, a cinema, a bowling alley and a (non-alcoholic) restaurant. Konrad Thurnher worked in Partenen until 1931, the year in which the Vermuntwerk was completed. St. Martin’s Church had already involuntarily ensured social, even cross-border cohesion: after the village fire of 1800, which had also destroyed the little baroque church from 1729, citizens from the neighboring Tyrolean valley of Paznaun, from Ischgl and Galtür, also contributed to the reconstruction of the church with donations. Later, Bishop Franz Joseph Rudigier (1811-1884) of Linz also made donations to ensure the continued well-being of the little church in his home village. Incidentally, the house where the Bishop of Linz was born has been preserved in Partenen to this day. Inside the church, the popular, late Baroque furnishings and the sculpture of St. Martin are striking. The presence of this patron saint of all travelers should also be welcome in Partenen, the village at the foot of the Zeinisjoch and the Silvretta-Bielerhöhe. Further assistance is also provided in the church by the 14 holy helpers painted on the ceiling by Vorarlberg church painter Anton Marte (1874-1929).

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