Maria-im-Walde-Church (Dolina)
The Maria im Walde branch church , also known as the Dolina motorway church , is a Roman Catholic church in the village of Dolina in the Grafenstein municipality in Carinthia. It belongs to the bilingual parish of Poggersdorf .
history
Three Slovenian girls from Dolina had apparitions of Mary on three consecutive days in 1849. The news spread very quickly and many a recovery is said to go back to visiting the wondrous place. At the insistence of the locals from Poggersdorf , a church investigation was carried out by the Tainach provost by order of the bishop, while the locals were already collecting funds for the construction of the church.
From 1861 to 1863 a historicist church was built by the architect Anton Faleschini according to the plans of the architect Anton Bierbaum . The high nave with a two-sided choir closure and a later north-facing sacristy received a tower in 1882, which collapsed in 1889. The nave was rebuilt by the architect Wilhelm Klebel and it was consecrated in 1957.
Between 1999 and 2000 the architects Ferdinand Čertov and Robert Morianz redesigned a concrete building with a wall as an entrance front and a roof structure over supports to a motorway church. The interior has vertical and horizontal slits of light. The wall painting in different shades of red is by the painter Johanes Zechner . Two glass windows were designed by Giselbert Hoke .
There is a wooden figure of the Madonna and Child around 1420, with a later version and over carving. The baroque high altar bears a picture of the apparition of Mary by the painter Peter Markovič from 1906. The gold-framed tabernacle was created at the beginning of the 20th century.
Slovenian cultural history
The Dolina pilgrimage in the middle of the Klagenfurt Field has a special place in the regional Slovenian cultural history. It became very popular very quickly. Its importance is underlined by the altarpiece by the Slovenian academic painter from Rosegg Peter Markovič , the Slovenian Way of the Cross from the end of the 19th century, albeit in a very popular style.
In 1871 the 3rd Carinthian (and at the same time the 17th and last) important Slovenian political meeting under the name Tabor took place in the neighboring village of Oberwuchel / Zgornja Buhlja , at which more than 7,000 participants were. The central demands were the unification of all Slovenes in a state unit under the Habsburg crown, the realization of the rights guaranteed in the catalog of fundamental rights of the December constitution of 1867, a fair school system that should guarantee the learning of the Slovene mother tongue as well as the creation of a Slovene cooperative system and the establishment of Slovene cultural associations . It is precisely these that should subsequently be built in the vicinity. The choice of the meeting place, a stone's throw from the well-known and popular Slovenian pilgrimage site, is no coincidence.
literature
- Dehio Kärnten 2001 , Dolina, Filialkirche Maria im Walde, p. 83.
- Stefan Singer: Cultural and Church History of the Deanery Tainach. Klagenfurt / Celovec [ea] 1995.
- PO Hajnšek: Marijine božje poti. v Celovcu 1971.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Stefan Singer: Culture and Church History of the Dean's Office Tainach. Klagenfurt / Celovec [ea] 1995, p. 176.
- ↑ Avguštin Malle: Tabori na Koroškem. In: Zgodovinski časopis 41 (Ljubljana 1987) 599-622
- ↑ B.-I. Schnabl: Celovško polje, neznani zaklad osrednje slovenske cultures pokrajine, Izsledki enciklopedijskih raziskovanj. In: Koroški koledar 2013. Celovec 2012, 107–122.
Coordinates: 46 ° 38 ′ 23.6 " N , 14 ° 26 ′ 56.4" E