If you take the central cycle tour you will pass this not so well-known pilgrimage church. Definitely worth seeing, even though you have to overcome a steep climb beforehand.

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May 6, 2023

The idyllically situated pilgrimage church of Heiligenkreuz-Gutenbrunn is one of the most beautiful late baroque country churches in Austria

It was built between 1755 and 1758 and its overall composition makes it the largest "Maulpertsch Church" in Austria.

The main person responsible for this jewel was Franz Xaver Anton Marxer, at that time auxiliary bishop and vicar general of Vienna and Passau below the Enns, at the time of Empress Maria Theresa, who, after winning the lottery, had acquired the Gutenbrunn Palace from the noble lord Jakob Daniel von Tepsern and had the church built (1755-1758; on Aug. 6, 1758 was the fair). However, the cause of all this was the statue of Mary found by the hunter Johann Paul Müller on the corn floor of the old castle in Gutenbrunn, which was placed on the then named "Tepserberg" around which a pronounced pilgrimage destination developed.

The heyday of the Holy Cross fell between 1758 and 1775, and it became a place of pilgrimage like Mariazell and Maria Taferl. Up to 5000 and 6000 pilgrims could be counted on some days.

Although the church and the palace form a single structure, from a legal point of view a line of ownership was drawn through the building, so that today there are still two separate owners (church-parish; palace-Fr. Anna Maria Figdor).

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Location: Herzogenburg, St. Pölten, Vienna Woods, Lower Austria, Austria

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