Pilgrimage church Maria Trost (Berg near Rohrbach)
The baroque, Roman Catholic pilgrimage church Maria Trost is a listed building in Rohrbach-Berg in the Mühlviertel . The church belongs to the Rohrbach parish and stands on the top of the mountain dedicated to the Blessed Mother east of the town center in the middle of a forest. The church was built between 1645 and 1655 on the site of the former Berg Castle and is an important place of pilgrimage in the Upper Mühlviertel .
Founding legend and building history
At the time of the Celts , the mountain top was a Celtic cult center. Later the mountain was consecrated to Our Lady and called Maria Solst. The castle, built on the mountain peak in the Middle Ages, was looted and destroyed by farmers during the Peasants' War in 1626. In gratitude that Berg was spared by the Swedes in 1645, Count Theodorich von Rödern fulfilled his vow and in the following years probably had a church built on the site of the castle chapel of the ruined Berg Castle. An engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1667 shows that the mountain was treeless and the church had two towers. The church was surrounded by walls and defensive towers, some of which are still there today.
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The pilgrimage church got its current appearance with a small turret above the presbytery in 1765. During this major renovation, a large part of the current baroque interior was created. In 1892 the vestibule was converted into the main entrance. The church has been owned by Schlägl Abbey since 1913 . The new sacristy was completed in 1933/34 and the roof turret in 1954. The last renovation was made in 1997.
Church interior
The church interior consists of a high single-nave , three- bay nave with a baroque barrel vault. On the ceiling is a baroque ceiling fresco, painted in 1744, depicting the Assumption of Mary. The front arch separates the nave from the presbytery. Wall frescoes show the Annunciation.
The main altar is located in the presbytery with windows on three sides. The Maria-Trost-miradenbild is a 1.7 meter high early baroque Madonna with baby Jesus. The festive clothes of the Madonna are changed according to the church feast days. The halo around the Madonna has a diameter of 1.8 meters. To the right and left of the Madonna there are two columns, above which the group of figures God the Father and Holy Spirit floats in the form of a dove. Saints Joseph and Joachim flank the statue of the Madonna. The miraculous image was created by J. Worath in 1659.
The side altars date from around 1765. The left side altar shows the holy martyrs Sebastian , Donatus and Florian . The right side altar depicts Saints Erasmus , Antonius and Francis and dates from the 19th century, when the church was a third-order assembly church . The windowless north wall bears pictures of a Way of the Cross, which were painted around 1800. Above the Way of the Cross hangs the picture of Maria Trost , which the church founder brought from Stuhlweissenburg in Hungary in 1688 . The picture shows Mary with the child. There are also two life-size figures in the church, one depicting the weeping Mother of God and the other the scourged Savior.
On the located above the input double gallery is the 1895 Breinbauer - organ . A previous organ was mentioned as early as 1734. In the sacristy , which was completed in 1934, there are baroque mass dresses.
Bells
The oldest bell was cast in Linz in 1752 , had a diameter of 57 cm and weighed 117 kg. In 1917 it had to be delivered. The second bell, also cast in Linz, had a diameter of 46 cm and weighed 65 kg. This also had to be delivered in the Second World War. The three bells, consecrated in 1955, come from the St. Florian bell foundry .
Around the church
To the left of the main entrance is the sacristan's house, the foundation walls of which are partially identical to the ruined Berg Castle and which has two round towers on the ground floor.
Below in the direction of the mountain is the benefit house , built around 1709 , which was donated by Countess Maria Theresia von Rödern with 6,000 guilders. Between 1655 and 1709 the Benezificiaten lived in the castle at the foot of the mountain.
Adolf Wagner von der Mühl dedicated the poem Das Bergkirchlein to the church .
Pilgrimage routes
A pilgrimage route leads from Haslach an der Mühl to the church. The following chapels / monuments are on the way:
- Buchet chapel
- The holy grave
- Maria Snow Chapel
- Maria-Hilf chapel
The following chapels / monuments are on the pilgrimage route from Rohrbach :
- Statue of St. Nicholas
- Statue of St. John Nepomuk
- Holiday Chapel (also Devil's Chapel)
Regular pilgrimages are carried out from almost all parishes in the Upper Mühlviertel, and also from Hellmonsödt and Haibach above the Danube . The church is located on the Jakobsweg section, which leads from Český Krumlov via Schlägl Abbey to Passau ( Jakobsweg Oberes Mühlviertel ).
literature
- Federal Monuments Office Austria (Ed.): Dehio - Upper Austria Mühlviertel . Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 978-3-85028-362-5 , p. 94ff
- Pichler, Isfried Hermann: Church leaders: Wallfahrtskirche Maria Trost , Rohrbach 1991.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ View No. 127 “Perg” in: Topographia Austriae superioris modernae : that is contrafee and illustration of all places, monasteries, rulers and castles of the Ertz-Herzogthumbs Austria ob der Ennß ( digitized version )
- ^ The little mountain church by Adolf Wagner von der Mühl
- ↑ Pilgrimage in Austria: The Way of St. James through the upper Mühlviertel ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , (Accessed June 11, 2009)
Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 26 ″ N , 14 ° 0 ′ 1 ″ E