Druckenthaner Chapel
A chapel with beautiful view at the edge of the forest. Follow the extension of the Traxleckerweg, go right at the path fork in the field, and continue uphill
A chapel with beautiful view at the edge of the forest. Follow the extension of the Traxleckerweg, go right at the path fork in the field, and continue uphill
Franziska Druckenthaner, of Traxleckerweg 57, commissioned the chapel in 1949 to commemorate the happy return of her two sons from World War II, who had been prisoners of war.
The chapel is simple and windowless, with a hipped gable roof at the back, a double-leafed door, and a wooden cross in the gable. Inside, there is a quarry stone altar structure and on the front wall, a large picture of the Virgin Mary.
The large picture is older than the chapel itself. According to its owners, it belonged to the Austro-Hungarian fortress at Przemysl, Galicia (today in southwest Poland), from where it was able to be removed before the Russian encirclement (autumn 1914) and then fall of the fortress (22 March 1915). It was brought to the chapel in a roundabout way.
On both sides of the picture are two sheets of writing by Nora Scholly, each with a picture of the Virgin Mary. As a war memorial, one has Ischl painted in the background, the other Lauffen. On the altar table, there are three statues of the Virgin Mary and one statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, all made of plaster.
