Pilgrimage Church of St. Wolfgang am Stein
The Roman Catholic pilgrimage church St. Wolfgang am Stein is in the village of St. Wolfgang in the market town of Aigen-Schlägl in the Rohrbach district in Upper Austria . The St. Wolfgang consecrated branch church of Aigen is part of the Dean's Office Altenfelden in the Diocese of Linz . The church is a listed building .
history
The once famous place of pilgrimage is located in Mühlholz in the middle of the forest, where, according to popular belief, medicinal water flowed near a Spurstein (Wolfgangirast) that has now disappeared. In 1430 a wooden chapel to the holy stone is mentioned for the first time . Abbot Martin Greysing from Schlägl Abbey had the pilgrimage church rebuilt in today's baroque style in the 17th century. An outside pulpit is available for pilgrimages .
architecture
The church is a late Gothic hall building with a retracted polygonal choir and a mighty tower, characterized by the early Baroque redesign. The church was built around 1500 and Cipriano Novo and Francesco Canevale were given Baroque modifications between 1641 and 1644 .
Furnishing
The interior of the church is baroque. The St. Wolfgang statue with a church model, the figures of saints and the high altar were made by Johann Worath in 1644. The paintings were also created in 1644 by David Stangl . The neo-baroque pulpit dates from the 19th century.
Surroundings
The Peace Chapel above today's car park west of the pilgrimage church was built by Cipriano Novo in 1652.
A spring rises on the south side, which is caught in a stone shell made of granite. The water is said to have healing properties, especially for eye problems. Above the shell basin of the well chapel there is a seated figure of St. Wolfgang, which Johannes Spaz created from white marble between 1644 and 1647.
literature
- Isfried Hermann Pichler: Sankt Wolfgang am Stein. In: Schlägler Kleinschrift. 2nd edition, Schlägl 1992, 30 pages.
Web links
- St. Wolfgang am Stein , Bohemian Forest Tourism
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Dehio-Handbuch - Upper Austria - Volume I - Mühlviertel. Edited by the Federal Monuments Office . Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-362-3 , pp. 197f.
Coordinates: 48 ° 37 ′ 48.2 " N , 13 ° 56 ′ 27" E