Maria Brettfall
Maria Brettfall is a place of pilgrimage and a former hermitage on a rock at 700 m altitude at the western entrance to the Zillertal near Strass in the Zillertal in Tyrol .
The small church consists of a square nave and an octagonal tower with a dome and a lantern. Above the church is the former home of the hermits , which is now an inn.
History and equipment
Possibly was before the establishment of the Christian site on the rock a Wallenburg . In 1536, the Schwazer Bergbuch mentions the construction of the little church and Hermitage Maria am Brettfall . Around 1650 the sick and blind are said to have made pilgrimages there to get well again. A wooden chapel was built in 1671 and the first brick church in 1711. The small church that still exists today was consecrated in 1729. The statue of grace has stood above the tabernacle since 1765. In the period from 1851 to 1853, the church was restored and the side altars were created, showing Saints Antonius and Leonhard on the left and Wendelin and Aloisius on the right. The Marian fresco with the sundial above the entrance was created by Rafael Thaler in 1947. The church was renovated again in 2006 and 2007, and in 2008 the Stations of the Cross on the footpath from Strass to Maria Brettfall were renewed.
Worth seeing in Maria Brettfall is a year-round nativity scene from the 19th century.
hermitage
Stoff Weymoser was the first hermit on Maria Brettfall in 1536. The hermits who followed him always had to buy the hermitage. One of the most famous hermits on Maria Brettfall was Franz Margreiter from Alpbach. After the closure of Maria Brettfall by Emperor Josef II. In 1786 and by the Bavarian authorities in 1810, thanks to his initiatives, the opening could be achieved one year after the closure. Artistically, the people called Brettfallfranzl worked as a copperplate engraver , he created numerous devotional objects. In 1829 he was killed in a fire in the hermitage. In 1843, the curate replaced the hermit Nikolaus Anhell. Anhell made himself available as sacristan . Even today the hermitage still belongs to the curate, the last sacristan was Josef Schmiderer, he died in 1944. From 1961 to 1980 the hermitage above the church was converted into an inn.
Origin of name
The name Maria Brettfall could be derived from the Latin super vallem , which means above the valley. The origin of the Latin prae vallum , in front of the wall, is also possible .
The rock on which Maria Brettfall stands consists of Devonian Schwaz dolomite . Maybe the name refers to this one. About 300 meters further to the west and 160 meters lower, the 1,336-meter-long Brettfalltunnel of the Zillertalstraße leads under the mountain.
literature
- Ludwig Penz (Ed.): Place of pilgrimage Maria Brettfall. Church leaders, published in 1988.
- Inge Dollinger: Tyrolean art tour. An art travel guide through North and East Tyrol. Steiger Verlag, Innsbruck 1983, ISBN 3-85423-013-3 , page 152f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ community newspaper rhinestones, June 2008 ( PDF file , strass.tirol.gv.at).
- ↑ Geofast card 1: 50,000, sheet 119, Schwaz ; Retrieved June 17, 2013.
Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '36.4 " N , 11 ° 49' 3.8" E