Devil's Church of St. Gallen
The Devil's Church of St. Gallen is a hilltop southwest of Sankt Gallen (Styria) at an altitude of around 900 m . The name originated from a legend which is written on a blackboard. It is:
“A hermit once lived in a hut on this mountain, but secretly he was a very godless and vicious person to whom many young boys and maids came at night on Sundays and holidays and held unusual drinking parties with games and dancing, and blasphemous ones Speeches gave this place a bad name. It got worse from year to year. No day was sacred to them for these vicious meetings. They even held a particularly unusual binge on Good Friday. Then suddenly the mountain shook, flames of fire erupted from inside and a hideous smell of sulfur rose up. The lord of hell appeared himself with his entourage and carried off the whole dissolute society into his subterranean realm. When the participants did not return home, their relatives became very worried about them and went on a search. To their horror, they could no longer find the hermit's hut on the mountain, instead a wide hole as big as a church yawned towards them and foul-smelling sulfur fumes rose up. Now it was known that this hermit had been the devil himself who had deliberately seduced the young people to make them ripe for hell. Since then the mountain with the eerie cave has been called the "Devil's Church". "
The cave of the Devil's Church in St. Gallen
The legend of the devil church of St. Gallen
Web links
- The "Devil's Church" near St.Gallen (Styria) PDF document (1.3 MB)
Coordinates: 47 ° 40 ′ 50 " N , 14 ° 35 ′ 34" E