Pilgrimage church Maria Seesal
The Maria Seesal pilgrimage church is located in the Schwarzois settlement in the market town of Ybbsitz in the Amstetten district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic pilgrimage church consecrated to St. Mary belongs to the dean's office in Waidhofen an der Ybbs in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
The construction of the pilgrimage church goes back to Helene Wochner, who in 1863 dream of a church with an image of Mary. When she actually found this picture in a mill, she set it up on a mountainside, where a wooden chapel was soon built. In 1872, a small neo-baroque stone chapel was donated by a master blacksmith from Ybbsitz at this point, about halfway up the current pilgrimage church .
The descendants of Helene Wochner encouraged the pilgrimage, built a large inn and initiated the construction of today's pilgrimage church above the previous chapel in the years 1904 to 1906. The master builder was master mason Josef Hummer from Waidhofen an der Ybbs .
After the economic failure of the founding family, the k. u. k. Institute for the Blind opened the facility in 1910 as a holiday facility for blind children.
The pilgrimage church was looked after by pastors emeritus from 1899 to 1933.
architecture
The simple late-historical hall church on a wooded Kogel group in front of the valley narrowing of the Schwarzen Ois was given a double tower facade or choir side towers designed for a long view in the east. The undivided church building has a facade with fluted corner pilasters and arched windows with round bar profiles. The towers have pointed pyramid helmets. The choir between the towers is just closing and has a neo-baroque gable top.
The interior of the church has a three-bay, barrel-vaulted hall with belt arches which were led down to the floor as wall templates. The strongly drawn-in one-bay choir with a flat longitudinal barrel has adjoining rooms on both sides. The organ gallery is in the western nave yoke. The stained glass in the nave shows the Immaculate Conception, St. Ignazius of Loyola and St. Agnes by the painter Eduard Kratzmann . Another stained glass shows St. Joseph and Maria Immaculata.
Furnishing
The high altar as a baroque columned retable from 1740 as a former side altar of the Sonntagberg basilica was transferred here and shows an embroidered image of the Madonna and carries a rococo tabernacle from Mariazell . The neo-Gothic console statues Madonna, St. Joseph and Sacred Heart are from the beginning of the 20th century. The chandeliers and statues of saints came from Gresten . The neo-Gothic pulpit has evangelist reliefs. The Stations of the Cross are in the style of Albrecht Altdorfer . The pews are richly carved.
The organ was built in 1984 by the Upper Austrian Organ Building Institute St. Florian. The bells were cast in 1923.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Ybbsitz, Schwarzois, Maria Seesal pilgrimage church, p. 2780.
Web links
- Information (ybbsitz.at)
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter F. Moser, Diocese of St. Pölten: Places of grace and prayer. Smaller pilgrimage sites in the diocese of St. Pölten
- ↑ a b The building of the pilgrimage church Maria-Seesal (Say.at)
Coordinates: 47 ° 55 ′ 5.9 ″ N , 14 ° 56 ′ 30.7 ″ E