Maria Langegg

Maria Langegg ( village ) ; locality ; cadastral community Maria Langegg
	Basic data
Pole. District , state	Krems-Land (KR), Lower Austria
Judicial district	Krems at the Donau
Pole. local community	Bergern in the Dunkelsteinerwald
Coordinates	48 ° 19 '20 " N , 15 ° 27' 7" E Coordinates: 48 ° 19 '20 " N , 15 ° 27' 7" E
Residents of the village	29 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	31 (2001)
Area d. KG	2.06 km²
	Statistical identification
Locality code	04150
Cadastral parish number	12161
Counting district / district	Geyersberg (31303 000)
	Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

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Maria Langegg is a village and place of pilgrimage in the cadastral parish of the same name in the Lower Austrian municipality of Bergern in the Dunkelsteinerwald with around 70 inhabitants. It is located southwest of the city of Mautern on the Danube on a hill ( 510 m above sea level ) in the Dunkelsteinerwald . As a cadastral community, Maria Langegg covers an area of 206.05 hectares .

history

In the center of the picture the church with the striking tower facade, on the left the so-called original chapel (former choir of the previous church) and on the right part of the north wing of the former monastery.

The early modern church in the possession of the Prince Archbishop of Salzburg appears in documents as "Langegg" in 1429 and has been known as "Maria Langegg" since the 17th century. For the 16./17. At the turn of the century, a foundation and a chapel was established by Matthäus Häring, owner of the so-called Langegger-Hof and Salzburg court master of the Arnsdorf , Wölbling and Traismauer lords . After the influx of pilgrims had increased, a benefice (branch of Hofarnsdorf ) was set up around 1620/23 . In 1645 Nikolaus Schober appointed Hartenbach, owner of Langegg, on the recommendation of Emperor Ferdinand III. and the Passau bishop the Servites to Langegg. In 1647 the benefit was transferred in a letter to the Tyrolean province of the order, and the construction of a church and a monastery began. The west wing was completed in 1654, the north wing in 1682 and the south wing in 1733. From 1765 to 1773 the church was rebuilt in a north-south direction according to plans by Johann Michael Ehmann (1723–1768), with the original church being demolished in an east-west direction down to the choir (today's original chapel). In the course of the Josephine reforms in 1783, Maria Langegg became an independent parish. In 1963 a memorial was erected in the original chapel for the fallen and murdered priests of the First and Second World Wars.

Presumably after a lightning strike, the church tower burned down on April 5, 1966, causing great damage. The fire could be limited to the tower. A bell crashed a little (it can be seen in the church) and had to be replaced.

In 1974 the Servites gave up the monastery and handed the parish over to the diocese. From 1980 a school of the English Misses was set up in the monastery building , and since 1993 the community of Beatitudes has been located in the monastery.

church

The parish and pilgrimage church of the Birth of Mary is a late Baroque, longitudinally central building with a stately north tower facade. On the west side of the church is the rectangular four-wing complex of the former Servite monastery.

The interior is decorated with rich wall paintings by Josef Adam Mölk and his colleagues. For cost reasons, the high altar, a work by Andreas Rudroff from 1789, and the six side altars were made with painted altar structures. The hanging pulpit with late baroque decor on the left central pillar of the nave was made around 1773/74 by the St. Pölten sculptor Andreas Gruber. The organ is a work by Stephan Helmich from 1781/82 and was extensively restored in 2000.

Interior view looking towards the choir.
High altar with painted altar structures by Andreas Rudroff .
Ceiling frescoes from the workshop of Joseph Adam Ritter von Mölk .
The organ made by Stephan Helmich in 1781/82.

Pilgrimage museum

As part of the EU LEADER + funding program, a pilgrimage museum was set up in Maria Langegg in 2006 and opened in 2008. The museum offers an “outdoor theme path”, where information about the history of Maria Langegg is presented on a two-kilometer path around the monastery using glass steles, and an “indoor theme path”. It offers an overview of the pilgrimage in Lower Austria on ten display boards and introduces pilgrimage destinations. Votive pictures from the Baroque period, the originally preserved library of the Servites and the treasury can also be viewed .