Falkenstein Church
The pilgrimage church on the Falkenstein am Wolfgangsee is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage church in the parish of Sankt Gilgen in the Salzburg-Umgebung district , dedicated to Our Lady and St. Wolfgang is consecrated. The little church on the Falkensteinwand , the prominent rock eruption in Lake Wolfgang, is the main point of a group of memorial chapels along the St. Rupert pilgrimage route from St. Gilgen to St. Wolfgang in the Salzkammergut .
history
A Wolfgang chapel on the Falkenstein was first mentioned in a document in 1350. In 1626, the Salzburg keeper of Hüttenstein, Johann Wilhelm Lueger , had today's church built around a cave in the Falkensteinwand with a passage, a so-called sleeping stone . In the 16th century the Falkenstein was one of the most important pilgrimage sites in Europe. In peak years there were around 300,000 pilgrims at the Falkenstein. The pilgrims slipped through the passage without looking or shouting , that is, without looking back and in silence. It was said of a bedstone that "even the fattest, if he is free from sin," comes through it. Pregnant women hoped for an easier delivery. The church was renewed around 1692. Restorations were in 1923, 1937 and 1958.
Hermits lived near the church from 1659 to 1811 . In the clearing below the little church, the foundations of a hermitage were discovered (2012), which was formerly occupied by two hermits .
architecture
The church, which is attached to the side of a rock, comprises a substructure with a hall structure above it with a choir with arched windows and a roof turret. In the longitudinal axis there is an extension with a staircase with arched windows under a pent roof. The hall of the little church with a groin vault is followed by a drawn-in triumphal arch and behind it a rectangular choir yoke with a drawn-in semicircular apse. The slab floor of the church with red marble shows the year 1692 at the step to the choir. The side wall is opened to the rock face in full height with arched arcades and is broken through by a wide inclined staircase which also extends into the hall and leads to the elevated rock niche a room analogous to an oratorio with an arched window to the choir.
Furnishing
The altar around 1630 is a free-standing columned aedicula with a split gable and decorative wings on the sides in black and gold frames. The altarpiece shows Christ and the saints Maria and Wolfgang over pilgrims to Wolfgang. It comes from Adam Pürkmann and was painted around 1630.
Further chapels on the Falkenstein
- Schächerkapelle on the northern ascent of Fürberg, semicircular building from 1751 with a mighty arched arcade and a carved crucifix in the style of the 18th century.
- Brunnkapelle on the ascent to the Falkenstein Church , according to legend, on the site of a spring created by Wolfgang, documented in 1669, renewed in 1724, square baroque building under a pyramid roof with clapboard, with red marble slab floor and spring basin in the rock plinth on the mountain side, with the oil painting Spring Wonder of St. Wolfgang by the painter Wolfgang Spieß from the 2nd quarter of the 18th century.
- Sleeping chapel , baroque rectangular building from the 17th century attached to the rock face with a shingle hipped roof and groin vault, with a legend with seven scenes from the life of Wolfgang in its current form from the 1st half of the 19th century.
- Hackelwurf Chapel , at the southern end of the path to the lake, according to legend, at the site of Wolfgang's hatchet, square timber structure with a pyramid roof from the 19th century
- Rest Chapel , on down to the lake to Ried, according to legend, on a stop block of Wolfgang, übergiebelter niche shrine
- Falkenstein farmers chapel near Ried, square baroque building with pyramid roof
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Salzburg 1986 . St. Gilgen, pilgrimage church of Our Lady and St. Wolfgang, auf dem Falkenstein, Wegkapellen am Falkenstein (Ried), pp. 349–350.
- FALKENSTEIN near St. Wolfgang . In: Gustav Gugitz : Austria's places of grace in cult and custom . A topographical handbook for religious folklore in five volumes, Vienna 1958, volume 5, p. 158f.
- Joseph Victor von Scheffel : Die Bergpsalmen (Stuttgart 1895) - poetry about Wolfgang, former bishop of Regensburg, first hermit in the Falkenstein church
Web links
- Archdiocese of Salzburg , Parish Association of the Salzkammergut: Falkenstein
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Lindenmayr: Man and Cave. Perforated stones and creeping customs. lochstein.de
- ↑ Chapel of St. Wolfgang am Falkenstein haben.at
- ↑ Emmanuel Hessler (Europakloster Gut Aich): The human being animates the pilgrimage routes ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Presentation in Eugendorf on the occasion of a project meeting of the European Way of St. James in Eugendorf, September 25, 2008
- ^ Excavation manager Wolfgang Neubauer : Archaeological excavations at Falkenstein in St. Gilgen brought the foundations and cellars of a forgotten hermitage to light Salzburg State Correspondence, July 18, 2012
Coordinates: 47 ° 45 ′ 37.3 " N , 13 ° 23 ′ 58.5" E