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Artificial replicas of the cave in which the Mother of God supposedly appeared in the French pilgrimage site of Lourdes in 1858 are referred to as the Lourdes Grotto (also: Mariengrotte). A Madonna figure adorns the grotto at the place of the apparition of Mary

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Franz

July 15, 2017

The Lourdes Grotto in the Vienna Woods is a replica of the Marian Grotto of Lourdes. It is located on the western outskirts of the Lower Austrian place of pilgrimage Maria Gugging and is the largest pilgrimage site of the Archdiocese of Vienna every year with around 80,000 pilgrims and visitors.

The Lourdesgrotte was built in the years 1923-1925 at the suggestion of Father Caspar Hutter (1881-1957), the first church director and pilgrimage pastor of the Austrian Portiunkulakirche, on the site of an abandoned quarry, which donated Mrs. Maria Pflaum (1875-1939). The inauguration, in which over 60,000 people are said to have participated, was made on May 10, 1925 by Prelate Ignaz Seipel.

The sanctuary is located about 1.5 km west of the parish and pilgrimage church Maria Gugging on the Klosterneuburger Straße (B14). By the main road is a statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. From there a Way of the Cross with 15 tabernacle pillars with rosary reliefs, created in 1936 by the Bartolotti Art Institute, leads past a statue of Christophorus to the Grotto.

The marble statue of St. Maria Immcaulata in the Rock Niche and the Bernadette Soubirous as well as the wrought-iron grille of the grotto are true replicas of the originals of the Lourdes grotto in the southwestern French town of Lourdes.

From 1925 to 1927, a stand building tract with a bell rider and a devotional shop was built on the southeast side. The simple sacred building on the east side was built in 1968/69. The chapel, which was consecrated in 1973 by the Viennese auxiliary bishop and cathedral provost Karl Moser (1914-1991), is equipped with a wooden cross by Othmar Lux.

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Aurelia

December 27, 2017

The Lourdesgrotte was built in the years 1923 to 1925 at the suggestion of Father Caspar Hutter (1881-1957), the first church director and pilgrimage pastor of the Austrian Portiunkulakirche, on the site of a abandoned quarry.

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