Filzmoos child

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The Filzmooser Kindl in a white Easter dress above the parish church altar

The Filzmooser Kindl is a late Gothic, colored wooden sculpture of the blessing baby Jesus . It hangs as the center of the Filzmoos parish church in a golden halo above the high altar.

Devotional picture of the Filzmooser Kindl

history

Pilgrimage legend

According to the legend of the Filzmooser Kindl , two pious shepherds who camped in the Filzmoos area heard a little bell ring. They followed the sound and found a carved baby Jesus standing on a half-rotten tree stump at the place where the original chapel, built in 1820, is today. It had raised its oath fingers in blessing and was ringing the little bell. The two shepherds brought the figure to the dean's church in Altenmarkt , from where it returned to its location in Filzmoos overnight. But when the statue was brought to St. Peter's Church, it stayed there. According to another pilgrimage legend, blood would have flowed from the head of the baby Jesus when the crown was put on . Answers to prayer were recorded between 1705 and 1782.
The Jesuskindl stands, surrounded by a halo, above the altar in the parish church of Filzmoos.

Cult item

The image of grace is a so-called Glockenkindl , the statue of a baby Jesus who holds a bell in his right hand and blesses with it, in his left a globe. The Filzmooser Kindl comes from the 15th century, is carved from wood and clothed, the statue is approx. 45 cm high.

Pilgrimage

Motifs

Pilgrimage motifs were and are in particular help with mental and emotional illnesses ( madmen, from whom chains were sacrificed ) and the achievement of a blissful death hour (related amulets are preserved in the Seitenstetten Abbey ).

Votive

Votive offerings have so far been offered in the form of a pilgrimage image or as a wax structure, e.g. B. figurines, animals, toads, houses, but also replicas of hearts and feet.

Influx

The pilgrimage to the Divine Child of Jesus in Filzmoos comes from Salzburg, Carinthia ( Wolfsberg ), the Ennstal and Bavaria (Berchtesgaden). The largest procession to the cult object takes place at Whitsun from Irdning . On the evening of Pentecost Tuesday, believers come from the Salzburg Ennstal , many pilgrims come from Annaberg on October 1st Sunday .

Web links

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  • Ostmark art topography . The art monuments of the district of Bischofshofen (OKT 28), ed. from the Art History Institute of the Central Office for Monument Protection in the Ministry of Internal and Cultural Affairs, Baden near Vienna 1940.
  • Gustav Gugitz : Austria's places of grace in cult and custom . A topographical handbook on religious folklore in five volumes, Vienna 1958, volume 5.
  • Johannes Neuhardt (ed.): Salzburg's pilgrimages in cult and custom . Catalog of the 11th special exhibition of the Salzburg Cathedral Museum, Salzburg 1986.
  • Johannes Neuhardt: Pilgrimages in the Archdiocese of Salzburg , Munich and Zurich 1982.

Individual evidence

  1. Gugitz: Gnadenstätten 1958, Volume 5, p. 161.
  2. Gugitz: Gnadenstätten 1958, Volume 5, p. 161.
  3. ^ Neuhardt: Wallfahrten 1982, p. 69.