Maria Loretto Chapel (Gaal)

Maria Loretto Chapel under the Rosenkogel in Gaal. Across from the square

The Maria-Loretto Chapel is at 1,817 m standing Loretokapelle on Sommertörl under the Rosenkogel in the municipality Gaal at Knittelfeld , Styria , Austria . The main day of pilgrimage is the feast of the birth of the Virgin Mary on September 8th. The church building is a simple wooden building on stone foundations, which probably come from ancient times. The Loretto Chapel is a listed building .

history

In 1935 the Otto Zeilinger trade had the Maria Loretto Chapel built on the site of an older chapel that burned down after a lightning strike during the First World War . The driving force behind the reconstruction was the former administrator of the Zeilinger trade, Josef Handlos from Vienna. He later joined the Heiligenkreuz Abbey and worked after 1950 as a religious priest and for a few years as administrator of the Wasserberg in der Gaal rulership belonging to the Abbey.

literature

Meinhard Brunner, Walter Brunner , Odo Burböck, Franz Jäger: Gaal. History of the habitat and its inhabitants. Gaal 2000.

Web links

Commons : Maria-Loretto-Kapelle (Gaal) - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Gaal municipality, sights

Individual evidence

^ Walter Brunner and Odo Burböck: Gaal. History of the habitat and its inhabitants . Ed .: Walter Brunner, Director of the Styrian State Archives. Self-published local community Gaal, 2000, p. 493 .

47.298499 14.556248Coordinates: 47 ° 17 ′ 54.6 ″ N , 14 ° 33 ′ 22.5 ″ E

[1] Walter Brunner and Odo Burböck: Gaal. History of the habitat and its inhabitants . Ed .: Walter Brunner, Director of the Styrian State Archives. Self-published local community Gaal, 2000, p. 493 .