Pilgrimage church Mentlberg
The church of Mentlberg Castle (coll. Maria auf der Gallwiese ) belongs to the Innsbruck parish Maria am Gestade in Innsbruck's Sieglanger district .
history
In 1769 the church in its present form was built according to plans by the architect of the Innsbruck Triumphal Arch Konstantin Johann von Walther zu Pfeilsberg, and consecrated as a house of worship on September 5, 1770 by Auxiliary Bishop Romedius von Sarnthein.
In 1622, Ferdinand had a previous building built in place of today's church. According to tradition, his son, the imperial officer Christoph II von Khuepach, had a wooden sculpture in the dilapidated chapel in 1638 when he was returning from the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) on the way to Tyrol in the now Protestant Holzheim (near Neu-Ulm) Pietà , which he transferred to the Mentlberg Castle Chapel.
Soon the miraculous image of Mentlberg became the destination of a pilgrimage . With the increasing popularity of the pilgrimage site, the palace chapel became too small, which made it necessary to erect today's sacred building in 1769.
architecture
The miraculous image, created around 1500, sits enthroned over the altar and is integrated into a niche designed for the 13th station of the Cross. This niche is flanked by the assistant figures of St. Catherine of Alexandria and St. Barbara. The inclusion of the high altar, which was probably made by Josef Staff, in the cycle of the Stations of the Cross is not without a model, but it is a rarity. The ceiling paintings are by Matthäus Günther , who also worked in the Wilten parish church .
Below and to the side of the mural there are over 50 votive pictures that were created between the 18th and 19th centuries. They document the history of pilgrimage, which, in addition to Mary, also addressed the seven holy sleepers . A grotto is dedicated to them on the left side of the staircase to the organ gallery in the entrance area of the church, which the Wilten abbot Dominikus Löhr had added to the predecessor building of today's church in 1668.
In 1920, the then pastor of Holzheim wanted to buy the painting back for his church, but he did not succeed. In 1980, after an excursion to Mentlberg, the Holzheim municipal council had a true-to-original copy made for the Holzheim parish church.
Others
Today the church is often used as a wedding church. For some years now it has been used by the Society of St. Peter for divine services in the extraordinary form of the Roman rite .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 14 '54.6 " N , 11 ° 21' 48.99" E