Wayside shrine on the road to the Rettenbach alpine pasture
Rettenbachtalstrasse, near house No. 6, on the parking space next to the road, high above the banks of the Rettenbach River
Rettenbachtalstrasse, near house No. 6, on the parking space next to the road, high above the banks of the Rettenbach River
The disaster that led to this wayside shrine’s construction happened in 1889. Fifty-year-old carpenter Franz Ramsauer fell down the steep slope into the Rettenbach River while collecting "alpine grass" (yew tree branches) and died there. The wayside shrine in its present form was erected in 1934.
The shrine is a small tabernacle on a stone pillar with an oval metal image of the Madonna. Stone pillars of this type were common in the interwar period, when they functioned as memorials and wayside shrines.