Pilgrimage Church Frauenstein

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The Roman Catholic pilgrimage church Frauenstein is an Upper Austria ical pilgrimage and parish church under the patronage of the Visitation . It is located in the Mollner district of Ramsau, near Klaus , on a 502 meter high mountain cone. She is particularly known for a protective coat Madonna attributed to Gregor Erhart .

The church building

history

Copper engraving after a drawing by Johann Karl von Reslfeld (1696)

At first there was the Steyrstain fortress owned by the Wallseer . Eberhard V. von Walsee gave these to the Cistercian inner monastery women's or Mariensaal , today's Schlierbach Abbey . The church was first consecrated in 1488 as Capell am Stain . A brotherhood to our dear Mrs. Capell am Stain in the Molln parish, to which the church belonged at the time, took over the costs for construction work and equipment . According to records in the former Garsten Abbey Archives (Landesarchiv Linz), every believer who visited the church at high feasts and confessed was given an indulgence . From 1498 a third of the income was to be transferred to Garsten Abbey . However, the Reformation that soon began and the Turkish Wars destroyed Frauenstein's status again. It was not until 1615, under Abbot Anton II. Spindler of Garsten , that the reconstruction of the dilapidated church could begin. The name was first Maria Stain , only in the 18th century the name Frauenstein prevailed. In 1754 Frauenstein became its own vicariate and in 1823, after the abolition of the Garsten monastery in 1787, its own parish .

architecture

View to the high altar

The church is a late Gothic , later somewhat Baroque-style building made of conglomerate rock . The entrance is on the west side of the tower: you cross the former bell house and enter the church through a Gothic portal. A gallery on wooden supports is much preferred. The stucco vault dates from 1657, and the tower was built around the same time. He wore a baroque helmet, it has only had today's tip since 1880.

Furnishing

The organ in the gallery dates from the middle of the 18th century. The high altar, in which the protective cloak Madonna Gregor Erhart stands today, is the work of the Garstner sculptor Marian Rittinger from the end of the 17th century. On the south side of the choir , next to the pulpit, the miraculous image , a 60 cm high statue of the Virgin Mary in a baroque setting, which was venerated on the high altar until 1967 , is attached. The large crucifix on the north wall was made by Hans Spindler (1625).

Protective mantle Madonna

The created soon after 1510 work will Gregor Erhart attributed Ulm, Stifter's probably Emperor Maximilian I . The figure is a late Gothic protective cloak Madonna with child and two angels, carved from linden wood, seated in a raised position . The child in the center holds a wreath of roses, presumably related to the rosary prayer . The clearly recognizable triangular composition already points to the Renaissance.

gallery

  • Protective mantle Madonna with the portrait of Emperor Maximilian I.

  • Gallery with pictures of the Stations of the Cross and organ

graveyard

The grave of the German entertainer Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff is located in the cemetery behind the church . The urn was buried in August 1998 in the smallest family circle. His wife Gertraud and their son Till (Burli), who died young, are also buried here.

gallery

  • The cemetery behind the church

  • Kulenkampff family grave

literature

  • Willibald Girkinger, Wolfgang Heitzmann: The Steyr. Landscape and people on the river. 2nd Edition. Landesverlag, Linz 1990, ISBN 3-85214-527-9 .
  • Angela Mohr: The protective coat Madonna from Frauenstein. 2nd Edition. Ennsthaler, Steyr 1986, ISBN 3-85068-132-7 .
  • Franz X. Wimmer: A castle as extra income for the nuns. In: Extra look. The magazine for southern Upper Austria. No. 11, August 10, 2007, p. 4.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willibald Girkinger, Wolfgang Heitzmann: The Steyr. Landscape and people on the river , p. 117.
  2. ^ Franz X. Wimmer: A castle as extra income for the nuns , p. 4
  3. ↑ Angela Mohr: Die Schutzmantelmadonna von Frauenstein , pp. 10-14.
  4. ↑ Angela Mohr: Die Schutzmantelmadonna von Frauenstein , pp. 17-18.
  5. ↑ Angela Mohr: Die Schutzmantelmadonna von Frauenstein , pp. 22-23.
  6. ↑ Angela Mohr: Die Schutzmantelmadonna von Frauenstein , p. 33
  7. ^ Wiener Zeitung: Kulenkampff's urn buried , article from August 20, 1998, last edited on April 7, 2005. Accessed on May 22, 2019

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Coordinates: 47 ° 50 '56.9 "  N , 14 ° 11' 8.8"  E