St. Magdalena in the Gschnitztal
St. Magdalena im Gschnitztal , also St. Magdalena auf dem Bergl , is a pilgrimage chapel with a former hermitage in the municipality of Trins in Tyrol .
Location and access
St. Magdalena is located on a ledge southwest of Trins at 1661 m above sea level. A. , a good 400 m above the valley floor of the Gschnitztal . It can be reached on hiking trails from Gschnitz and Trins as well as on a via ferrata from Gschnitz. 14 stations of the cross lead from Gschnitz to the chapel.
history
The church was first mentioned in a document in 1307. According to the legend, as it was recorded in the parish chronicle of Gschnitz in 1766 , a wealthy nobleman wanted to build a church in honor of St. Mary Magdalene to atone for his sins . In search of a suitable place, a carved image of the saint was found, and the church was built on this spot. According to a folk tale, the man was a knight from Schneeberg who settled there as a hermit.
St. Magdalena developed into a popular place of pilgrimage, which was also venerated and given gifts by the sovereigns. Empress Maria Theresa donated 1,000 guilders a year . Her son, Emperor Joseph II , canceled the pilgrimage in 1787 as part of his reforms . It blossomed again after his death. Until 1938, farmers from Ellbögen and Patsch held petitions for a good harvest.
description
The rectangular, Romanesque nave from the beginning of the 13th century has a protruding gable roof and a ridge turret . The raised, three-sided Gothic choir was added in the 15th century. The baroque sacristy connects to the south and the former hermitage, now used as a snack bar, to the north.
Inside, the nave is separated from the choir by a pointed triumphal arch . Both are provided with a star rib vault , which is decorated with tendril paintings from the 16th century. Between 1959 and 1972 frescoes from the beginning of the 13th century were uncovered on the walls of the nave. On the west wall, next to a walled up arched window, St. Magdalena is depicted, on the south wall the flight into Egypt and on both sides of a Romanesque window Adam and Eve under the tree of temptation . The frescoes on the north wall date from 1460 and are attributed to Leonhard von Brixen . They show three scenes from the life of St. Magdalena.
At the high altar there is a crucifix with St. Magdalena, which was created in 1958 by Hans Pontiller to replace a historicist altar. In a niche on the north wall there is a statue of the lying Magdalena from the first half of the 19th century.
literature
- Inge Dollinger: Tyrolean pilgrimage book. The pilgrimage sites in North, East and South Tyrol . Tyrolia - Athesia, Innsbruck - Bozen 1982, ISBN 3-7022-1442-9 , p. 36-37 .
- Pilgrimage chapel St. Magdalena on the mountain. In: Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government (ed.): Culture reports from Tyrol 2009. 61. Monument report. Innsbruck 2009, p. 83 ( PDF; 7.8 MB )
- I. Dollinger, Schmidt-Pittl: pilgrimage church hl. Magdalena with a former hermitage. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved July 8, 2015 .
Web links
- St. Magdalena on your-berge.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ BERGFEX: St. Magdalena Klettersteig - Klettersteig - Tour Tirol. Retrieved June 29, 2018 .
- ^ Heinrich Hammer: The art of the Wipptal. In: Publications of the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum 18 (1938), pp. 1–41 ( PDF; 7.6 MB )
- ↑ Excursion tip: St. Magdalena im Gschnitztal , Tiroler Sonntag - church newspaper of the Diocese of Innsbruck
- ↑ Trins , in the history database of the association "fontes historiae - sources of history"
Coordinates: 47 ° 2 ′ 43.5 ″ N , 11 ° 22 ′ 35.1 ″ E