Lourdes grotto in the Vienna Woods

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The Lourdes grotto in the Vienna Woods

The Lourdes Grotto in the Vienna Woods is a replica of the St. Mary's Grotto in Lourdes . It is located on the western outskirts of the Lower Austrian pilgrimage site of Maria Gugging and is the largest pilgrimage site in the Archdiocese of Vienna , with around 80,000 pilgrims and visitors annually .

history

The Lourdes Grotto was built between 1923 and 1925 at the suggestion of Father Caspar Hutter (1881–1957), the first church director and pilgrimage pastor of the Austrian Portiunkula Church , on the site of an abandoned stone quarry, which was donated by Mrs. Maria Pflaum (1875–1939). The inauguration, in which over 60,000 people are said to have attended, was carried out on May 10, 1925 by Prelate Ignaz Seipel .

description

Interior view of the chapel built in 1968/69

The pilgrimage site is located around 1.5 km west of the Maria Gugging parish and pilgrimage church on Klosterneuburger Straße (B14) . There is a statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on the main street. From there, a Way of the Cross with 15 tabernacle pillars with rosary reliefs, which were created in 1936 by the Bartolotti Art Institute , leads past a statue of Christophorus to the grotto.

The marble statue of St. Maria Immcaulata in the rock niche and that of Bernadette Soubirous as well as the wrought iron grille of the grotto are faithful replicas of the originals from the Lourdes grotto in the southwestern French city of Lourdes .

From 1925 to 1927, a frame structure with a bell rider and a devotional shop was built on the southeast side . The simple sacred building on the east side was built in 1968/69. Fitted is the chapel, 1973 by Wiener Bishop and Dompropst Karl Moser (1914-1991) benediziert was, with a wooden cross of Othmar Lux .

Web links

Commons : Lourdesgrotte, Wienerwald  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maria Gugging . In: web archive . Retrieved June 6, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio-Handbuch. The art monuments of Austria. Lower Austria, south of the Danube , part 2. Berger publishing house, Horn / Vienna 2003, page 1320, ISBN 3-85028-365-8

Coordinates: 48 ° 19 ′ 11.4 "  N , 16 ° 14 ′ 17.7"  E