Pilgrimage church Christkindl
The parish and pilgrimage church of Steyr-Christkindl in Steyr , district Christkindl , is a baroque pilgrimage church . The plans come from Carlo Antonio Carlone , who was based on the Roman pantheon . Named the church after a wax statue of the Infant Jesus (Christkindls) in the high altar. The official name is Zum divine Christ Child , locally also Zum Christkindl unterm Himmel .
history
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Surname
The hill on which the church stands today was originally called "Wald Underm Himel", like the corridor Unterhimmel on the Steyr. The first name for the newly created place of grace was “Christkindl under heaven”. In the list of the Federal Monuments Office , the church is listed as the "Pilgrimage Church of the Divine Christ Child".
Legend
The choir regent and tower keeper Ferdinand Sertl, who moved from Melk to Steyr in 1691, is said to have suffered from epilepsy . To find healing, he prayed in front of a picture of the Holy Family that he hung on a pine tree . This stood on a hill in front of the gates of Steyr, which at that time was still densely wooded. He soon heard that the lame choir sister Maria Elisabetha Parangin had begged a wax figure of the Christ Child for healing in 1648 and was soon able to leave. Sertl requested such a figure from the Cölestine women on the mountain , prayed in front of it and, according to tradition, actually got well. The news spread quickly and the tree with the wax figure was soon a popular place of worship. In gratitude for the recovery of his child, a farmer from the neighboring municipality of Ortisei finally built a wooden chapel that enclosed the spruce trunk and was the origin of today's church.
At the end of the 17th century there was a figure of Christkind, revered as miraculous, in the hollow of a spruce tree . Due to the great popularity as a place of worship, the Garsten Abbot Anselm I decided to build a hermitage and later the building of a church,
Building and parish history
The current church was started in 1702 according to plans by Carlo Antonio Carlone . Carlone took the Roman church of Santa Maria Rotonda, better known as the Pantheon, as a model for the baroque building . Since the approval of the Episcopal Ordinariate in Passau was missing, this forbade further construction. Only after five years, on April 16, 1708, was the permit received. After the death of Carlone, the master builder Jakob Prandtauer was entrusted with the work, and on September 28, 1709 the Garstner abbot consecrated the largely completed church. Around 1880, the Linz cathedral master builder Otto Schimmer raised Prandtauer's facade towers.
At the time of the Josephine reforms, when Garsten Abbey was also secularized, a district was set up in 1785. The parish was founded in 1891.
The Kirchweiler also includes today's parish hall with farm buildings from the construction period, planned by Prandtauer himself from 1710–1715. The former hermitage, which was built in front of the church, has been an inn for 200 years (today the Hotel-Restaurant Christkindlwirt ). The Loretto Chapel, built in 1876, stands by the church . To the west is the cemetery, laid out in 1784 . The farm yard by the cemetery is also an inn today, the Christkindlhof . Originally there was a baroque garden between the rectory and the cemetery, which no longer exists.
The Christkindl Christmas post office has existed since 1950 . In addition to a devotional goods store (Christkindl shop) , the rectory also runs a philately archive in which almost all special postmarks have been available since the post office opened.
Building description
The church is a Roman type basilica . It is a round building with four apses and two facade towers.
Furnishing
The church was built around the place of worship. Since around 1720, the spruce trunk has been included in the baroque high altar created by Leonhard Sattler (and perhaps already designed by Prandtauer himself) . The trunk is walled in up to a height of 120 cm and connected to the masonry with iron struts. A gold-plated globe from around 1760, embossed in copper, serves as a tabernacle .
The dome fresco by Johann Karl von Reslfeld shows the Assumption of Mary. The Christmas picture on the left side altar also comes from Reslfeld, who also painted the altarpieces in the parish church and the Margaretenkapelle . The painting with a depiction of a crucifixion on the right side altar comes from the Tegernsee Monastery . The painter is Karl Loth . The altar frames are the work of the lay brother Marian Rittinger from Garsten.
The high altar
The tabernacle
The wax figure in the high altar
Dome with Ascension fresco
Miraculous image
The miraculous image of the baby Jesus is a small, only 10 cm high figurine made of wax. She is a standing Christkindl with a cross and a crown of thorns in her hands.
It is located in a halo above the tabernacle shaped as a globe.
organ
The organ was built in 1975 by the organ builder Ludwig Eisenbarth (Passau); the organ case dates from 1908. The instrument has 17 stops and two prints on two manuals and pedal .
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Loreto Chapel
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The Loreto Chapel, a replica of the Holy House of Nazareth , was built in 1876 as a later descendant of the typical Baroque Loreto chapels in front of the pilgrimage church, half left. It was built according to a design and under the direction of the Steyr cabinet maker Johann Jaunisch and consecrated on June 29, 1876 by the Linz bishop Franz Josef Rudigier .
description
A single-storey rectangular building with a gable roof and a rectangular entrance portal with stone walls in the longitudinal facade. A neo-Gothic altar is located behind a wrought-iron grille. In the center of this is the typical Loreto Madonna with the baby Jesus - wrapped in the “dalmatica”. The accompanying figures are St. Joseph and St. Anna pictured. The walls are reminiscent of the bricks of the Holy House, a frieze separates them from the blue sky with gold stars. In front of the wrought-iron grille, there are three zinc-plate paintings that Mathias Großer created in 1878.
Nepomuk Chapel
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The baroque chapel in front of the church and diagonally opposite the Loreto chapel was built around 1740. On the front side a wide arched opening with shoulder arches and a simple, simple grille. Inside a stone figure of St. John Nepomuk , also from around 1740.
Web links
- Website of the parish (on dioezese-linz.at).
- The Church of Christkindl. Parish website.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christine Grüll: It's good to live in Unterhimmel. ( Heaven on Earth series - A journey to places with “heavenly references” , part 1 of 5) In: KirchenBlatt No. 31 (2011), August 3, 2011 (online, kath-kirche-vorarlberg.at, accessed September 3 2018).
- ^ Upper Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento of December 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), ( CSV ). Federal Monuments Office , as of June 8, 2017.
- ↑ a b Franz Harrer: Sagas and legends of Steyr. Verlag Wilhelm Ennsthaler, Steyr 1965. 5th edition 1994, ISBN 3-85068-004-5 , chapter The foundation of Christkindl , p. 128 ff ( pdf, Jetzt.at, accessed on June 12, 2012).
- ↑ a b c d Steyr online. Buildings: Pilgrimage Church Christkindl , opened on August 26, 2011
- ^ A b c Maximilian Aichern : Churches and chapels in the parishes of the Diocese of Linz. An art-historical-pastoral documentation. Diözesan-Archiv Linz, 2001, pp. 153–154, full article, pp. 142–165, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
- ↑ Christkindl shop. Parish website (on dioezese-linz.at) ..
- ↑ Information on the organ
- ↑ a b c Parish Steyr-Christkindl: Loreto Chapel ; accessed on Oct. 17, 2018
Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 17.9 ″ N , 14 ° 23 ′ 14.9 ″ E