Oberjäger Chapel

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The Oberjäger Chapel in August 2014

The Oberjäger Chapel , also called Oberjäger-Bildstock or Oberjägerkreuz , is located in the town of Bärnbach in the Voitsberg district in western Styria ( Austria ). The origins of the wayside shrine go back to the end of the 19th century. The wayside shrine is a listed building .

history

The original wayside shrine was consecrated on September 10, 1890. Due to the construction of a new road crossing, the wayside shrine had to be demolished in the early 1970s. The statue was brought to Salla . In 1994 it was restored on behalf of the Federal Monuments Office and then integrated into a wayside shrine, which the Bregar family had in place of the original wayside shrine built in 1994/95 in front of their single-family house on Oberjägerplatz. This was consecrated on May 16, 1996. The Oberjäger Chapel serves today as a station at the meat consecration and as a prayer station at the Emm exit on Easter Sunday.

description

In the wayside shrine built in 1994/95 there is a larger than life, baroque statue of Christ made of sandstone. The painterly design comes from Franz Weiss and shows what happened on the Mount of Olives.

literature

  • Gottfried Allmer: Voitsberg - portrait of a city and its surroundings-church history . Ed .: Römisch-Katholisches Stadtpfarramt Voitsberg. tape 3 . Voitsberg 2012, p. 155-156 .

Web links

Commons : Oberjäger-Kapelle, Bärnbach  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Styria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento of May 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 28, 2013 (PDF).
  2. a b c Gottfried Allmer: Voitsberg - portrait of a city and its surroundings-church history . Ed .: Römisch-Katholisches Stadtpfarramt Voitsberg. tape 3 . Voitsberg 2012, p. 155-156 .
  3. ^ Ernst Lasnik : Voitsberg - portrait of a city and its surroundings . tape 1 . Municipality of Voitsberg, Voitsberg 2012, p. 220 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 3 ′ 18 "  N , 15 ° 8 ′ 14.4"  E