Göriach (municipality of Virgen)

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View from the Rabenstein castle ruins to Virgen Dorf and Göriach (in the background)
The hamlet of Marin

Göriach is a fraction of the municipality of Virgen in East Tyrol. The fraction adjoins the community center in the west, the Virgen Dorf fraction and lies north of the Virgental Landesstraße on and west of the Virger Bach. The hamlet of Marin (1,385 m) also belongs to Göriach , making the Göriach fraction the largest of all Virger fractions. In 2001, 169 people lived in Göriach and Marin. In Göriach there are two sacred buildings, the All Saints Chapel and the Chapel in Marin.

All Saints Chapel

All Saints Chapel
Marin Chapel

The parliamentary group of Göriach is the All Saints Chapel. It is secluded on the Adlerweg at an altitude of 1,693 meters and is connected to Marin by a way of the cross. In earlier times, pilgrimages to this chapel are said to have been frequent, today the residents of Göriach celebrate the patronage of the small chapel every year on the day before All Saints' Day.

According to tradition, the chapel is the first Christian place of worship in this area. When the Slavs invaded the Virgen Valley in the 7th century, secret services are said to have taken place here. The chapel should go back to the Romanesque period and its shape is determined by its location on a rock. The semicircular building merges into an obtuse angle and is closed off by a wall that almost reaches a rock face. The roof rises to the rock without a gable and has a small ridge turret. Inside the chapel is clad with a flat wooden ceiling. The main altar has mainly neo-Romanesque forms from the second half of the 19th century. In the center of the altar is an image of All Saints from the 18th century, adorned with two figures of knightly saints from the second half of the 18th century. These are on the one hand Margrave Leopold and Emperor Friedrich or King Ludwig. The side of the altar is flanked by the neo-Gothic figures of St. James the Elder and St. John the Evangelist.

Next to the main altar is a second, older altar from the second half of the 17th century in the church. The altarpiece shows the 14 helpers in need in front of the Blessed Mother. The picture is flanked by twisted columns, a curved, broken gable and an attachment with a broken triangular gable. In the essay there is a representation of Maria Magdalena, to the side Saint Erasmus and John of Nepomuk. On the altar there are also rough, Gothic figures of St. Ulrich and St. Antonius.

Marin Chapel

The chapel in Marin is the youngest of the Virg chapels. Since the parish church and the All Saints Chapel were difficult to reach for the residents of Marin, Peter Paul Mariner, who made money in the fur trade, built the Chapel of St. Joseph with his own funds and with the help of the Virgens neighborhood . The bells came from the upper walls after the First World War, the altar was made by the wood sculptor Friedl Fuetsch from Virgen . The altarpiece shows St. Joseph with the dying Jesus in his arms. The altarpiece was made by the Hanissen nun , a woman from the Weiskopf family of artists who lived as a nun in Rome.

literature

  • Louis Oberwalder : Virgen in the Hohe Tauern National Park . Edition Löwenzahn, Innsbruck 1999, ISBN 3-7066-2197-5
  • Meinrad Pizzinini: East Tyrol. The Lienz district. His works of art, historical forms of life and settlement. Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1974 (Austrian Art Monographs, Vol. VII) ISBN 3-900173-17-6

Web links

Commons : Göriach (Virgen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics Austria municipality data Virgen, 2001 census