Pilgrimage Church of Maria Laab

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Pilgrimage church Maria Laab in Naarn in the Machlande

The pilgrimage church of Maria Laab , with the patronage of the Coronation of the Virgin Mary , is located in the village of Laab in the cadastral parish and market town of Naarn in Machlande in the Perg district in Upper Austria and is a branch church of the Naarn parish .

history

Building

Neither the occasion nor the exact date of the construction of the listed church are known. The first written mention of the church was in the records of the Steyregg lordship as Naarn church in 1092.

The walls of the nave and the choir are Gothic . In 1720/1730 a baroque three-bay wing was added to the north.

Under the parish proxy Alois Asamer, the church was renovated around 1900 and received the current neo-Romanesque appearance. Another thorough exterior and interior renovation was carried out at the beginning of the 1980s while maintaining the neo-Romanesque style elements.

Interior decoration

Miraculous image sculpture Maria Coronation in the pilgrimage church Maria Laab

The interior of the nave is a flat, ready hall. The gallery does not have any supports and has neo-renaissance armor with round-arched decorative fields and depictions of sheet music and musical instruments.

Johann Lachmayr built the organ in 1899 as a single-manual parapet organ with four registers. The ceilings and walls were painted in the neo-Romanesque style of the Beuron school (main nave with Mary and Trinity , Saints Sebastian , Rochus , Isidor and Antonius in the choir ). The sculptor and politician Josef Dirnbergeraus Perg created the neo-Romanesque altars.

The sculpture of the Coronation of Mary was created around 1520 and shows a symmetrical structure of the group and the richness of folds in the robes.

In the crypt of the church Wolfgang Schickhmayr is Pfleger the rule Steyregg buried. The corresponding funerary inscription is on the north wall of the church.

Pilgrimage

Maria Laab developed into a regional place of pilgrimage to which every parish in the area had its pilgrimage on a certain day of the year. The pilgrimage of the Mitterkirchen parish on July 2nd every year has been preserved. Supraregional pilgrimages took place until the beginning of the First World War , for example Maria Laab was a stopover for pilgrims from Bohemia on their way to Mariazell .

The amount of the sacrificial money raised in the pilgrimage church was twice that of the parish church in Naarn. In the first half of the 18th century, a gingerbread man and three bakers had their stalls around the church .

The pilgrimage church was severely affected by the Josephine restrictions , and pilgrimages could only be resumed at the beginning of the 19th century. In some cases bus pilgrimages to Maria Laab are also undertaken.

The church is also used as a wedding church.

Web links

Individual evidence

  • Folder of the parish of Naarn: The pilgrimage church Maria Laab.


Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '56.8 "  N , 14 ° 38' 7.2"  E