Pulkauer Bründl
The Pulkauer Bründl is a pilgrimage site near Pulkau in Lower Austria . The Maria Bründl chapel is a listed building . The main festival of the Pulkauer Bründl is celebrated annually on July 2nd at the Visitation of the Virgin Mary .
history
Because of the plague epidemic in 1679/1680, Pulkau was quarantined and sealed off so that the residents of Rafing, Reipersdorf and Missingdorf were not allowed to attend the holy masses in Pulkau. As a substitute, they met each other at a forest prayer near a spring with an image of Mary to pray together here.
The fact that only a few of the faithful who visited this place fell ill with the plague was attributed to the intercession of Mary and the healing power of the spring water enjoyed here and resulted in the beginning of Marian veneration. The miraculous healing of a paralyzed boy who had been bathed in this spring water by his mother in 1699 finally ensured that the spring became known as a miraculous healing spring.
Benedikt Windtegger, teacher and eyewitness of healing, had a wooden chapel built in 1702 and the image of Mary hung in it. The stone chapel that still exists today was built in 1724 under Abbot Karl Fetzer. In 1725, the Passau official in charge at the time granted permission to read holy masses and hold processions for the next six years . The sacrificial money had to go to the chapel. Should this not be enough to maintain the structure, the Schottenstift was obliged to finance the work. The privilege of granting full indulgence to pilgrims who visited the Pulkauer Bründl on the Visitation of the Virgin Mary was granted in 1780.
The pilgrimage chapel was threatened with closure by the court decree issued by Emperor Joseph II on January 12, 1782 , which ordered the closure of churches and chapels and the abolition of monasteries. The closure of the Pulkauer Bründkapelle was prevented with the help of Benno Pointner , the abbot of the Vienna Schottenstift. In 1791 Benno Pointner applied to the Vienna Consistory for permission to read two masses a day here.
Between 1756 and 1794, two consecutive hermits who belonged to the Forest Brothers Confederation lived here and looked after the small chapel. Her hermitage was located at the nearby sacristan's house, where confessions are made during the great pilgrimages . In 1858 the sacristan's house was acquired by the Schottenstift.
The Pulkauer Bründl was threatened again in 1856, when a mill was to be built in the immediate vicinity of the Bründlanlage and operated with the water of the stream flowing here. Since this plan would have had a negative impact on the pilgrimages, an objection was lodged with the district office, which ultimately prohibited this project.
At the Lourdes grotto , the Bründl, a new Lourdes statue was consecrated in 1884. The previous statue was placed in a field chapel in neighboring Rafing. Ten years later, on October 7, 1894, the new Way of the Cross was inaugurated.
The stone pulpit , which is set up outdoors next to the Bründl Chapel , was brought here by the Holy Blood Church in 1889. In 1935 it was moved back to Pulkau, but this time to the newly renovated parish church. It was initially replaced by its old wooden pulpit, later a masonry pulpit was built.
description
The baroque complex of the Pulkauer Bründl is located in a small, tree-covered depression west of Pulkau.
- The Maria Bründl Chapel is a baroque building with two bays and closed on three sides with a turret . The facade is structured with pilasters . Above the entrance there is a polychrome group of figures in a round arch niche, which depicts the encounter at the Golden Gate and dates from the first third of the 18th century. The miraculous image is on the altar of the chapel.
- The open wooden Lady Chapel, next to which the pulpit is located, dates from the 19th century.
- The spring was integrated into a small Maria Lourdes grotto by the Maria Bründl Chapel. There are figures of Maria Lourdes and Saints Joseph and Anthony of Padua here.
- The entire complex is surrounded by stations of the cross in the form of niche shrines.
Landmarks
At the approach to Pulkauer Bründl there are two historical boundary stones . These stones placed at right angles to each other mark the limits of the so-called Pulkauer and Rafinger Freiheit.
Each of the stones bears the coat of arms of Pulkau consisting of two jugs with the inscriptions "Pulka" and "1651" on one broad side. The other two broad sides were probably originally marked with the coat of arms of the Zwettl monastery . Due to the weathering, however, no traces of it can be seen.
literature
- Anton Reich: Pulkau - His churches and his history , Bergland Verlag, Vienna 1963.
- Engelbert Heilinger: Chronicle of Pulkau , Berger Verlag, Horn 1933.
- Evelyn Benesch, Bernd Euler-Rolle , Claudia Haas, Renate Holzschuh-Hofer, Wolfgang Huber, Katharina Packpfeifer, Eva Maria Vancsa-Tironiek, Wolfgang Vogg: Lower Austria north of the Danube (= Dehio-Handbuch . Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs ). Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna et al. 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 , p. 915 .
- Siegrid Hirsch, Wolf Ruzicka: Holy sources Lower Austria & Burgenland , Freya-Verlag, ISBN 3-901279-99-7 .
- The Pulkaubründl - A pilgrimage booklet , self-published by the Pulkau parish, Lower Austria, 1948.
- Alois Puschnik: God's stones - Pulkau small monuments .
- Gustav Gugitz: Austria's places of grace in cult and custom. A topographical handbook for religious folklore, Volume 2, Lower Austria and Burgenland , Brothers Hollinek Verlag, Vienna 1955.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c The Pulkaubründl - A pilgrimage booklet
- ↑ a b Engelbert Heilinger: Chronicle of Pulkau . S. oA
- ↑ God's stones , p. OA
Coordinates: 48 ° 42 ′ 11 " N , 15 ° 49 ′ 57" E