Pilgrimage chapel Maria Poetsch
The Maria Poetsch pilgrimage chapel is a pilgrimage chapel in the Upper Austrian municipality of Altenfelden . It was built between 1873 and 1875 on the site of a previous building in the historicist style.
location
The chapel is located in a small side valley of the Große Mühl around 200 meters west of its banks in the middle of a forest area. About one kilometer west of the chapel is the village of Unterfeuchtenbach , also about one kilometer northwest of the village of Oberfeuchtenbach . Closer is the cardboard factory on the Große Mühl in the northeast, about 600 meters away. The chapel can be reached via a road that runs from Neufelden via Langhalsen to the cardboard factory along the Große Mühl.
history
Today's chapel goes back to a wooden chapel that was built in 1848 by the owner of the Aichbauerngut in Oberfeuchtenbach, Mathias Pichler. Pichler had also set up an offering box in it without obtaining official approval, which is why the episcopal consistory in Linz ordered that the offering box should be emptied every 14 days and that the sum should be handed over to the Armenian community of Altenfelden. The pilgrimage chapel served to honor two apparitions.
On the one hand, a “holy spring” rises next to the location of the chapel, the water of which is said to have special healing properties against eye diseases. On the other hand, the place is used to worship a miracle from the 17th century that is said to have occurred in Hungary in a village called Pocs. According to tradition, a picture of the Madonna shed tears there, which dripped to the ground. According to this, a portrait of the weeping Mother of God is said to have been attached to a spruce tree in the Rotbachwald off a road as early as 1798 and later found in the litter.
The place of pilgrimage should soon have enjoyed great popularity, because Pichler soon asked for permission to build a brick chapel. The request was approved, but with the condition that the chapel must be closed on Sundays and public holidays between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. and between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. so that people would not make a pilgrimage here for Sunday mass or the blessing service. The chapel was subsequently rebuilt between 1873 and 1875. Soon two stalls selling devotional items were set up next to the chapel . In the chapel itself, more and more votive pictures were installed. The bishop of Linz also donated a relic for the chapel in 1901. In 1902 permission was given to read a Holy Mass here a few times a year and a Stations of the Cross was set up as a result. Today's Stations of the Cross dates from 1969.
Building
The two-bay chapel is a hall building with a 3/8 end, which is protected by a hipped roof over the choir. The gable facade has a plastered field structure, in which there is also the segmental arched entrance door and a round window, and in the gable there is a mural of Maria with the child. The side fronts are pierced by stone-framed segmental arched windows, in the east facade there is a round window.
Inside there is a belt-lined segment arched barrel vault over pilasters. The high altar from 1886 was executed as a neo-Romanesque niche altar with a niche top and a crowning triangular gable using older statues. In the middle niche of the high altar there is a depiction of Mary with child from the end of the 19th century, while the figures on the sides are much older. It is a figure of St. Joseph from the last quarter of the 17th century and St. Anna from the first quarter of the 18th century. The essay was decorated with figures of God the Father, St. Hubert and St. John the Evangelist. The tabernacle has a round arched field in relief and floral decor, with a miraculous image of Maria Poetsch on the tabernacle door. In the sloping sides of the choir, arched niches house wingless angel figures from the second half of the 19th century.
literature
- Peter Adam, Beate Auer, u. a: Dehio Handbook Upper Austria. Volume 1, Mühlviertel. Verlag Berger, Horn, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-362-3
- Willibald Katzinger : Altenfelden. Review - panoramic view. Altenfelden municipal office 1978
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Coordinates: 48 ° 29 ′ 54.5 ″ N , 14 ° 0 ′ 24.2 ″ E