Church of the Holy Spirit on Osterberg

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The Holy Spirit Church and the place of the same name

The Church of the Holy Spirit on the Osterberg ( Slovene : Sveti Duh na Ostrem vrhu ) is located in the municipality of Selnica ob Dravi ( Slovenia ) near the border with the Austrian state of Styria .

The name Osterberg is based on the pointed shape of the mountain on which the settlement is located and is derived from the Slovenian word óster for "sharp, pointed". The word therefore stands for Scharfer Berg, Spitzer Berg and has nothing to do with Easter .

history

There has been a wooden church on the Osterberg near Leutschach for many centuries . At the beginning of the 17th century, the mountain was a meeting place for the members of a sect that was called "Springer" ("Springer and Thrower", "Springer Sect", "Founder and Springer") because of their ritual dances and religious acts. They held their regular religious gatherings there. Their cult originated before 1570 and had followers from the Slovene and German cultures, mainly from lower social classes. As part of the religious gatherings, dances were used to strive for "ecstatic states of consciousness with visions" and to try to invoke the "Holy Spirit". The sect members had been expelled from the area of Schwanberg , which at that time was the last Protestant area in south-western Styria, and had withdrawn to the area between Soboth and the Windischen Büheln , where they usually held their meetings on mountain tops. The church authorities of the Counter Reformation only observed the meetings for a while and then forcibly dispersed the sect members.

It is unclear whether these attempts in the middle of the 17th century in the not easily accessible area in the east of the Drava Forest were successful in the long term. A cult building of the Springer had already existed before 1600, in 1618 his followers also owned a chapel at the site of today's church, which was then set on fire by the authorities, but was rebuilt in 1622. The approval of the construction of churches on the former cult sites of the sect is also seen as a contribution to their final pacification.

The parish of Heiligengeist on the border between the districts of Leibnitz and Marburg in the years around 1879: Record sheet 1: 25,000 of the 3rd regional record (top center)

The church was then rebuilt in 1667 by Anna Crescentia von Stubenberg and consecrated to the Holy Spirit in 1709 . The parish of Heiligengeist was built around the church. The place of worship was originally a chapel of the Leutschach parish, in 1789 it became a localie ( branch church ) of Leutschach, and in 1892 it became an independent parish.

In addition to large parts of the former Austrian municipality of Schloßberg , the parish of Heiligengeist also included the areas around the village of Heiligengeist that are now part of Slovenia.

In 1919, after the end of the First World War and the peace of St. Germain , the border between the Republic of Austria and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was drawn. As a result, the parish of Heiligengeist was also divided - part remained on the Austrian side and came to the parish of Leutschach , the other part was assigned to Yugoslavia.

The church is a place of pilgrimage and a popular excursion destination. Every year on Pentecost Sunday, the big pilgrim festival takes place with a Slovene and German-language church service. The church was renovated with the help of committed Styrian citizens and companies.

literature

  • Gert Christian (Ed.): Hl. Geist am Osterberg / Sv. Duh na Ostrem vrhu. Church without borders; Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the parish elevation. University printing house Styria. Leibnitz 1992. ISBN 3-9500175-0-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eduard Staudinger: The border area of ​​the Remschnigg and the Possruck in the Middle Ages. In: Christian, Osterberg , pages 82–94, here: page 82.
  2. ^ A b Thomas Winkelbauer : Freedom of the class and the power of princes. Countries and subjects of the House of Habsburg in the denominational age. Part 2. In: Herwig Wolfram (Ed.): Austrian History 1522–1699. Ueberreuter Verlag, Vienna 2003. ISBN 3-8000-3987-7 . Pp. 47-48.
  3. ^ A b Marianne Nürnberger: Dance / ritual - integrity and the foreign. Vienna 2001. Habilitation thesis at the University of Vienna , Institute for Ethnology , Cultural and Social Anthropology of the Faculty of Basic and Integrative Sciences. 1st part, section “Alienation and demonization of the body”. Part 3, section “From gestures of greeting to prayer - physical dialogue with the mighty and mighty”.
  4. ^ Helmut-Theobald Müller (ed.), Gernot Peter Obersteiner (overall scientific management): History and topography of the Deutschlandsberg district. Graz-Deutschlandsberg 2005. ISBN 3-901938-15-X . Styrian Provincial Archives and District Authority Deutschlandsberg 2005. In the series: Great historical regional studies of Styria. Founded by Fritz Posch †. First volume, general part. Herbert Kriegl: From cultural life. Page 430.
  5. ↑ Jože Mlinarič: The sect of the Springer to Heiligengeist on the Osterberg. In: Christian, Osterberg , pages 116-131, here: page 120.
  6. ↑ Mlinarič, page 126th
  7. ↑ Mlinarič, page 130th

Web links

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Coordinates: 46 ° 36 ′ 53 "  N , 15 ° 27 ′ 35"  E