Black Madonna by Loretto
Coordinates: 47 ° 54 ′ 52 ″ N , 16 ° 30 ′ 57 ″ E
The Black Madonna by Loretto is a baroque miraculous image in the Loretto Chapel next to the Maria Loretto Basilica in Loretto in Burgenland.
The landlord Rudolf von Stotzingen had a chapel built in Loretto around 1644 based on the model of the Loretto Chapel in the Augustinian Church in Vienna. He donated a miraculous image based on the archetype of the Black Madonna of Loreto in Italy.
On September 8, 1644, the statue was solemnly carried to the new Loretto Chapel on the Leithagebirge and consecrated. She attracted thousands of pilgrims and was soon called the proud sister of the Madonna of Mariazell . Visitors were the Emperor Charles VI. with his wife and Empress Maria Theresa with Franz I.
The archetype in Loretto in the province of Ancona in Italy later fell victim to a fire.
literature
- Margit Pflagner , J. Marco (photos): Burgenland. 80 color pictures with explanations in German and English. Foreword by Governor of Burgenland Theodor Kery , English translation: Ursula Halama, Frick Verlag, Vienna 1970, photo 11, description of the picture: The miraculous image, the Black Madonna of Loretto , copy of the grace statue of Loreto in the Italian province of Ancona.
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Burgenland. Loretto. Catholic parish and pilgrimage church of the Immaculate Conception, cloister, Loretto (grace) chapel, monastery, Marian column in front of the church. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-7031-0401-5 , page 177.