Maria Schnee branch church (Kötschach-Mauthen)
The Roman Catholic branch and pilgrimage church Maria Schnee stands above Mauthen , near the second bend of the Plöckenpass road in the municipality of Kötschach-Mauthen in Carinthia . The church is a branch of the parish Mauthen . A footpath with five stations of the cross leads through the forest.
The church was built in 1710–1712 and enlarged in 1843. It consists of a four-axle nave, a retracted choir with a five- eighth end and a high, wooden roof turret with an onion helmet. In 1844, Christoph Brandstätter the Younger painted scenes from the life of the Virgin on the flat ceiling of the nave.
On the high altar from 1715 with sacrificial portals are a copy of the Marian grace image Salus populi Romani from 1780 in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore and the statues of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Anthony of Padua . The baroque altar leaves on the side altars dating from around 1700 show the death of Joseph and St. Anne the third . The church also has numerous votive pictures from the period from 1767 to 1863.
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 527.
- Christian Art Centers in Austria No. 446 - Parish Church of St. Markus in Mauthen Carinthia. Publishing house St. Peter, Salzburg 2006.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 39 ′ 42.3 " N , 12 ° 59 ′ 44.6" E