Pilgrimage Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary (Unterholzhausen)

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The Roman Catholic parish and pilgrimage church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary is surrounded by farms in Unterholzhausen in the Inn Valley. Her patronage of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary is celebrated on July 2nd, following the German regional calendar.

history

Holzhausen was created during the Bavarian colonization in the 6th century. A first documentary mention is a deed of gift from the year 1130, in which today's "Old Vicarage" the Augustinian - Kloster Au am Inn is bequeathed. For centuries, Holzhausen was a branch of the Au am Inn monastery. From this time on there was a wooden church in the village. The current church in late Gothic style was built between 1460 and 1476.

With the secularization in Bavaria in 1802 the Au am Inn monastery was abolished. As a result, Unterholzhausen no longer had a pastor, and the aristocratic leadership of Bavaria ordered the demolition of the Unterholzhausen church. A committed protest by the population prevented this.

renovation

The church was completely renovated in 1977 and 2011/2012 with the help of the population. Since the church renovation, there is also a confessional from the Au am Inn monastery in the church.

building

It is a single-nave late Gothic hall church with a chapel on the south side. The nave has three bays.

Furnishing

The figures of the high altar are as old as the church itself. They depict Mary as Queen of Heaven, St. Agnes and St. Barbara. On the front half-pillars are St. Catherine on the right and St. Kunigunde on the left. On the wall on the right is St. Augustine, on the left St. Ambrose.

With the interior renovation in 1977, the Gothic furnishings and painting in the choir room were restored. The yellow fields between the cross ribs are also original from 1470 and like the decorations. Original Saeco painting can be found on the gallery: on the left a depiction of the stoning of St. Stephen , St. Martin, the Annunciation, St. Dionysius and St. Vitus.

The vault keystones, beginning at the altar, represent Mary with the baby Jesus, St. Barbara, Anna Selbdritt, St. Catherine and St. Margaretha. The old iron-studded Gothic sacristy door, which is impregnated with ox blood , is worth mentioning .

meaning

The Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary is not only the parish church of the parish of the same name, but also a popular pilgrimage destination. Nothing is known about the origins of this pilgrimage. The goal of the pilgrimage is the Gothic image of the Virgin Mary in the center of the baroque high altar. The pilgrimage to Unterholzhausen experienced a particular boom in the 17th and 18th centuries.

literature

  • FX Leeb: History of the ancient parish Unterholzhausen near Neuötting. Neuötting (Niedermayer and Seidl) 1912.
  • oA: website of the parish.
  • Liebfrauenbote: Joint effort. Altöttinger Liebfrauenbote, November 11, 2011.
  • Hans-Joachim Philipp, Ursula Breu: Visitation of the Virgin, Unterholzhausen: Altöttings little pilgrimage. Festschrift 1977.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ FX Leeb
  2. ^ Messenger of Our Lady
  3. ^ Website of the parish
  4. ↑ http://unterholzhausen.bplaced.net/Geschichte%20Unterholzhausen%2C%20Leeb/slides/Uhh_01.html
  5. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150923191312/http://www.bistum-passau.de/bistum/dekanate-und-pfarrei/pfarrverbaende/pfarrverband-altoetting/8840
  6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20131029185804/http://www.bistum-passau.de/sites/default/files/user/18/Uhh_KR_Liebfrauenbote.jpg

Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 48 ″  N , 12 ° 38 ′ 3 ″  E