Pilgrimage Church Maria Freienstein
The pilgrimage church of Mary Seven Pains on Freienstein is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage church . It stands about a hundred meters above the town of Sankt Peter-Freienstein on a narrow rock plateau, exactly where Leoben Castle was in the late Middle Ages . The church was built on the ruins of the former sovereign castle.
history
After the takeover of Carantania by the Bavarians and the Franks, the administrative center of the county "Liupina" (Leoben) was in the so-called Steinhaus (today Sankt Peter-Freienstein, Traidersbergstraße 2), where later from about 1188 to 1848 the seat of the land registry office and the District Court was. The castle served as protection and as a refuge for the regional court house. The castle and rule were subsequently given by the sovereign to constantly changing noble servants as fiefdoms . At the end of the 14th century, the duke handed the castle over to knightly servants, including the Idungspeugern. They also owned another castle called Freienstein in Lower Austria and also called Leoben Castle Freienstein. The name Leoben was used more and more only for the princely city of Leoben and hardly for the whole valley (today Vordernbergertal ), as was the case before. Over the decades, the castle lost its importance and became very dilapidated.
In 1652 the Jesuits of Leoben acquired the castle and dominion and obtained permission from the Archbishop in Salzburg to convert the castle into a Church of Our Lady, which happened between 1661 and 1663. The inauguration took place in 1718. After the temporary abolition of the Jesuit order in 1773, the Freienstein rule came to the state and subsequently to private owners.
. In the 1930s and 1940s, the writer Gustav Hackl , who was also the works doctor of the Donawitz steelworks, used the room above the gate building as his poet's parlor. The pilgrimage church of Mary Seven Pains on Freienstein came as a branch church to the parish of St. Peter and is now part of the parish association of Trofaiach , St. Peter-Freienstein , Vordernberg . It is mainly visited during the Marian holidays and during the pilgrimages, which take place every 13th day of the month between May and October.
Church building
The church, built between 1661 and 1663, has one nave and four bays. The mighty round tower and the gate building, the so-called Priesterstöckl, come from the former fortified castle. This consists of two rooms. Access to the church, where you can still recognize the old defensive character, is via a bridge. There are loopholes on the two-storey gate building. The churchyard extends over two rock plateaus and is surrounded by a circular wall. The church has been renovated since 2008. The interior renovation was completed with the consecration of a new popular altar on May 10, 2015.
The altars and the pulpit are in the so-called Jesuit style, which means that the wood is black and the decorations and statues are golden.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Dr. Herwig Ebner "Castles and Palaces in Mürz Valley and Leoben", 1965 Birkenverlag Vienna, p. 62ff and p. 174 ISBN 3-85030-039-0
- ↑ Dehio-Handbuch Steiermark 2006 S482 f.
Tollinghof residence | Workers' house of the former Jandl'schen Blechhamm. | Former Lime works | Manor house of the former Jandl's tin hammer | Kath. Filialkirche, Pilgrimage Church of Mary Seven Pains m. Fastening u. Gate system m. Bridge and the Chapel of the Holy Sepulcher | Catholic parish church of St. Peter and churchyard | Kreuzkapelle | Niche / chapel shrine | Rectory | Prehistoric settlement on the Kulm near Trofaiach | Friedhofen Castle | Freienstein Palace Complex | Donawitz water reservoir
Coordinates: 47 ° 24 '6.4 " N , 15 ° 2' 1.9" E