Marian column Wiener Neustadt
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The Marian column stands approximately in the middle to the east in the main square of the statutory city of Wiener Neustadt in Lower Austria . The Marian column is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
1678 two married in Wiener Neustadt half-sisters of Emperor Leopold I in the Church of St. George the castle in Wiener Neustadt two German princes.
The weddings of the Duchesses Eleonora Marie Josefa with Charles V of Lorraine and Maria Anna Josefa with Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz were used by the Wiener Neustädter Bishop Leopold Karl von Kollonitsch as an opportunity to donate a Marian Column in memory in 1678. Bishop Kollonitsch consecrated the Marian Column on August 15, 1679 on the feast of the Assumption of Mary. At the same time he held several devotions in front of the pillar to ask for help with the rampant plague .
Decades later, the next but one successor, Bishop Franz Anton Graf von Buchheim, had six statues with plague saints erected around the Marian Column, which were consecrated on the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost June 10, 1714.
On the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost June 20, 1915, an iron shield was presented by the Marian column . This was a donation campaign of the so-called war nailing under the patronage of Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria-Tuscany and his wife. Each donor was allowed to drive a nail into the defense shield. Families whose fathers or sons died in the war should receive help with the donation money. According to a directory stored in the Wiener Neustadt city archive , several thousand people, institutions and companies joined the call for donations .
The bombing war in World War II and a storm disaster in 1946 caused great damage to the Marian column. The last restoration took place around 1995. In 2005, cracks on the statue of the Virgin were repaired.
Marian column
At the four corners of the base are statues of Saints John the Baptist , Florian von Lorch , Antonius von Padua and Leopold the Saint ; In between rises a column made of red Adnet marble with the crowned figure with a halo of Maria Immaculata , who stands on a dragon. Two medallion-like reliefs show the coat of arms of Bishop Kollonitsch with reference to the Order of Malta , of which he was a member. A relief represents St. Joseph of Nazareth with the baby Jesus. Inscriptions on the north and south side tell about the weddings and the founder.
The figures of the plague saints Sebastian , Franz Xaver , Karl Borromäus , Rosalia , Rochus and Benno stand on a hexagonal balustrade that surrounds the column.
literature
- Marian column. In: Gerhard Geissl: Monuments in Wiener Neustadt. Places of remembrance. Kral Verlag, Berndorf 2013, ISBN 978-3-99024-167-7 , pp. 85-87.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 47 " N , 16 ° 14 ′ 39.6" E