Adolf Zech

Adolf Zech attended the grammar school in Feldkirch. Together with fellow pupils, he founded the Hainbund in 1907, from which the secondary school fraternity Clunia Feldkirch emerged in 1908. After graduating from high school in 1909, he went to the seminary in Brixen, where he was ordained a priest in 1912. Adolf Zech became chaplain in Alberschwende, parish provisor in Schröcken and finally parish priest in Klösterle in 1921. His efforts to build a church in Langen am Arlberg, which found a special patron in Bishop Sigismund Waitz, also date back to this time. In 1930, Adolf Zech and his bishop were able to consecrate the expository and pilgrimage church built by Innsbruck architect Hans Feßler in honor of Saint "Theresa of Lisieux". Due to the nearby railroad station, the new Theresienkirche quickly became a popular place of pilgrimage after its consecration in 1930. Opposite the expository church is the memorial erected in 1936 to the workers killed during the construction of the Arlberg tunnel, which expresses the close connection between this place and the Arlberg railroad.