Maria Winkling
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The Maria Winkling pilgrimage chapel is located in Maria im Winkl (Winkling) in the town of Steyr in Upper Austria . The Roman Catholic chapel belongs to the Steyr-Gleink parish in the Steyr deanery of the Linz diocese . The church is a listed building .
history
During the great Enns flood in 1736 , which devastated the lower Ennstal , a wooden statue of the Virgin was washed ashore here in Winkling, on the Enns loop near Haidershofen shortly after the town of Steyr . Because the owner could not be identified, Andreas I, Abbot of Gleink , had it set up on a pillar by the river.
A lively regional pilgrimage developed around the image of the Mother of God, later called Mary in Glory . Therefore, a small wooden chapel was built above the wayside shrine, which was replaced by today's stone chapel in 1773–1775.
Instead of a cross, the turret of the chapel originally carried a sheet of metal in the shape of a bishop's cap , on which a Saint Nicholas , patron saint of raftsmen and shipping, was painted. This figure looked upriver as a landmark. It became customary for the Enns raftsmen to take off their hats for a short prayer when they approached the chapel, before they had to row through the dangerous loop of the river with its steep, jagged bank walls made of conglomerate rock and torrents. This plaque was replaced by a cross in 1962.
The name of the chapel also passed on to Winkling itself, which is now called "Maria im Winkl".
With the construction of the Staning power station in 1946, the flood of the Ennsschlinge drowned. The mirror of the storage space called “Staninger See” now extends directly to the chapel. On the occasion of an increase in the dam target of the power plant, the chapel was elaborately founded and renovated in 1982 with the participation of Ennskraftwerke AG . A memorial plaque reminds of this.
The pilgrimage has been held twice a year (Sunday in early May and early October) from the Gleink collegiate church to this day, with flag bearers and a music band.
Building description
The small Kapellhaus has a rectangular base with a circular non-apertured vestibules graduation and triangular gable front . The trickle-plastered facade is structured by smooth pilaster strips . On each of the longitudinal façades there are two box-framed longitudinal oval window openings. The entrance is on the western longitudinal facade, a simple rectangular door with a small tinny canopy. There is a small transverse oval exposure opening above. There are large baroque curved window openings on the gable facade, and a sundial in the upper left facade area . In the gable is a pointed arched window, flanked by murals of St. Florian and Maria with child . In the top of the gable is the eye of God . The chapel ends with a simple hipped roof . In the south it carries a roof turret with sound openings , a profiled eaves cornice and a curved metal tent roof with a gilded cross.
The bench comes from the time it was built, the floor made of Kelheim stone from the 1980s.
The portrait of Mary
The statue of Mary Immaculate or Mary in Glory , over a meter tall, is crowned, has an extended cloak, and holds a white lily in her left hand, the attribute of immaculateness, the right hand rests on her breast. At your feet lies the globe, which is surrounded by a snake. Angels accompany the figure on both sides.
This image is now placed in the glass shrine of the altar. It is executed in the style of the late Rococo with classical features. At this baldachin altar, more putti pull a curtain from the shrine to one side. The cafeteria is decorated with two angels with candlesticks. Copies of two other images of grace can be found above the side panels of the altar, on the left the Infant Jesus of Prague , on the right the Steingadener Wiesheiland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Parish Steyr-Gleink: The pilgrimage chapel. Diocese of Linz: Parishes (accessed August 28, 2018).
- ↑ a b c d e The Maria Winkling Chapel. In: Franz Harrer: Sagas and legends of Steyr. Wilhelm Ennsthaler Verlag, Steyr 1980, p. 198 ( online , haben.at; 7th edition, Verlag Ennsthaler, Steyr 2015, ISBN 9783850680042 ).
- ↑ In the city of Steyr, the event in 1736 has so far only been exceeded by the flood in 1572 , cf. flood marks in Steyr , image file on Commons.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 4 '58.17 " N , 14 ° 27' 38.07" E