Altar on Kreuzplatz Square

This chapel is the successor to the free-standing chapel wayside shrine, which was documented as a "cross" as early as 1558. It gave the square its name (Kreuzplatz = Cross Square). During the enlarged construction of the adjacent blacksmith's house (Kreuzplatz 14) around 1850, it appears to have been demolished and rebuilt as an annex of the house. During the restoration in 1957, the formerly wooden columns were replaced by artificial stone columns. In 2007, the somewhat neglected chapel (the winged altar used to be closed all the time) was to be converted into a shop entrance (!). This was prevented by the monument office. Unfortunately, the altar (with the date 1708) had been taken away shortly before.

In 2015, the Cultural Heritage Society of Bad Ischl (Ischler Heimatverein) had a new winged altar made by carpenter Arnold Lobisser, of Hallstatt. The altarpieces are depictions of old guild flags of Ischl. These were photographed by photographer Christian Parzer: on the left, St. Christopher in the Traun River with the Kreuzstein rock in the background; in the middle, our patron saint, St. Nicholas, on the right, above Ischl in earlier times, St. Barbara as the patron saint of miners above the salt mines in Perneck. Leopold Schiendorfer carved a new monogram of the Virgin Mary. Eberhard Aschauer made the gable cross. The painting companies Rainbacher and Neureiter were responsible for the painting work.

Since the redesign, the altar has been open daily in summer.

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