Pilgrimage Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary (Mühlberg)
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The Sanctuary of the Visitation is located above the Upper Bavarian municipality main town Waging am See ( district Traunstein ) in the district of Mühlberg. The listed new building from 1712/1713 is a branch of the Waginger parish church of St. Martin .
Building and pilgrimage history
The pilgrimage began in the last third of 1669. It was created by the wealthy Mühlberg farmer Adam Laiminger, who made a pilgrimage to the Ettaler Madonna the year before . From this pilgrimage, Laiminger brought home a picture of Our Lady made of paper. He nailed this picture to a wooden board and attached it to a pear tree on the bottom. The picture attracted a large number of devout worshipers from the area of the former parishes of Waging am See and Gaden. In the winter of 1669/1670 the Waginger pastor Krempl had an offering box set up. The pilgrimage did not subside, although the picture was torn from the tree. Krempl thereupon approved the construction of a wooden chapel, but this pilgrimage was a thorn in the side of Laufen monastery dean Georg Paris Ciurletti von Lerchen, as he feared competition for the Maria Büchl church near Laufen he had built , and assessed it disparagingly in an expert report.
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There is also a legend about the history of its origins. This says that the maid Eva of the Mühlberg farmer Manninger on her way back from the service in the Waginger parish church met a beautiful woman in the most elegant clothes, who pointed to a pear tree to which a picture was attached and who then disappeared.
In the summer of 1671, Salzburg Prince Archbishop Max Gandolf von Kuenburg passed the pilgrimage site on his way through and, because he was impressed by the large number of pilgrims, approved the construction of a niche shrine, which was probably like a chapel. A copy of the Ettal miraculous image was made from the felled pear tree. Shortly afterwards, a wooden porch was added to the wayside shrine.
The large influx of pilgrims eventually made it necessary to build a church, which began in 1709. The plans for this came from the Waginger Thomas Pretterleithner and Georg Gesslberger, who had started construction in the same year. In 1710 the choir stood, around which an altar in the shape of a pear tree was erected. The church was completed by the Tittmoningen master mason Johann Pattinger in 1712/1713. The consecration of the church by Prince Archbishop Sigismund III. Christoph von Schrattenbach took place in 1755, after the western yoke with the roof turret was added, while mass ceremonies took place in the church as early as 1710.
In the years from 1857 to 1862 the building was restored after the centenary and the furnishings were redesigned. The altar and other works from 1710 were removed, while the church received today's strict, late-classical high altar with neo-baroque echoes. The ceiling frescoes can be seen as a further ingredient in this restoration. In 1969, the parish of St. Martin Waging am See celebrated the 300th anniversary of the pilgrimage. Further renovations took place in 1967/68, 1991 and 1997/1998.
Architecture and equipment
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The building is a three-bay hall building with a semicircular end, which is structured by pilasters with blind balustrades. The choir is outside and inside without any recognizable separation from the nave. A sign is built to the west , above it is a protective cloak Madonna exterior fresco, which the church painter Georg Gschwendtner made in 1947, at the approach to the poorly developed tail gable . The roof turret sitting on the west gable has a lantern hood , and the two-storey sacristy is attached to the end of the choir. The interior of the nave and the choir is provided with a flat lancet vault; the curved double gallery adorned with numerous paintings is built into the western yoke.
Furnishing
At the end of the choir is the free-standing high altar made by Xaver Hörmann in 1858. The central Mariahilf picture comes from the Laufen painter Rudholzer. Above the tabernacle , in the monstrance, there is a picture of Mary that Adam Laiminger had brought from Ettal. The Visitation of Mary is shown in the round excerpt . Large votive candles and the figures of Saints Joseph and Elisabeth are attached to the sides of the choir.
In the middle of the north wall there is a replica of the Ettal miraculous image from 1671 made of the wood of the felled pear tree, surrounded by miniature paintings of the rosary secrets in a rich frame, these were on the old high altar. Opposite in a niche are the bones of the catacomb martyr Viktor brought back by farmer Joseph Mayr from a pilgrimage to Rome in 1842 . Before being installed in the church, the remains were captured by the Frauenchiemsee nuns . The baroque crucifix with a Mater Dolorosa is placed above the shrine .
The three ceiling frescoes, created by Josef Rattensberger from Salzburg in 1858, depict The Gracious Queen of Heaven (above the organ), the Mühlberg pilgrimage legend (in the middle of the nave) and The Assumption of Mary (in the front of the nave). The most striking decorations of the church next to the altar and the votive panels represent the twelve paintings on the double gallery. They show scenes from the Mary and Jesus cycle and were created around 1858.
On the walls of the two rear nave bays and on the underside of the gallery there are those with 390 votive tablets (the oldest are from 1671) as the largest collection in a Rupertiwinkler church. The boards are considered excellent sources of images on local folk culture. Between them is the so-called Alberti board , on which good and wrong actions are contrasted in nine pairs of pictures with texts.
organ
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Before 1884 a single manual organ was built by an unknown organ builder . In 2007, an appraisal revealed that the repair of the instrument was no longer possible. The organ builder Christoph Kaps was commissioned to create a new work in the historic case , which was restored for this purpose. The instrument was inaugurated on the festival weekend June 23 and 24, 2012.
The purely mechanical slider tray instrument with a free-standing, historicizing console has nine sounding registers on a manual and pedal . The disposition is as follows:
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- Coupling : Pedal coupling
Pilgrimage route from Waging to the church
The path begins on the eastern edge of the village at the Hägfeld corridor chapel and leads up the slope in a south-easterly direction. There are two large open chapels on it. The first is equipped with a Mount of Olives scene and the second with the Calvary scene . There are also fourteen cast-iron stations of the cross station signs along the pilgrimage route .
literature
- Hans Roth: The churches of the parish Waging am See. Verlag Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2006, pp. 13-17.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Organ database Bavaria, Version 5, ed. by Michael Bernhard.
- ↑ Reporting on www.pnp.de, accessed on February 9, 2020.
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved February 7, 2020 . .
Coordinates: 47 ° 55 ′ 49.7 " N , 12 ° 44 ′ 58.6" E