Attraction (Unter-) Lochlehn Chapel

This Marian chapel was built around 1720 and accommodates up to 20 people.

Description

This Marian chapel was built around 1720 and accommodates up to 20 people.

The ownership details provide a good insight into how farm and property names in Leutasch often developed quite differently.

A legend recounts the origin of the chapel: “At that time there was a girl with the farmer – she was from the Spackler farm – so ill that she promised to build a chapel if she survived the illness.”

She seems to have survived and was likely the Gertraut Heisin who married into the farm in 1717. It is further reported about her: “Gertraut brought a fortune of 861 Gulden and 20 Kronen into the marriage and her sister married into the Liasn.”

The interior of the chapel, which is also adorned with a bell tower, features an altar painting of the sorrowful Mother of God, two angel heads, and two weeping angels. An inscription on the painting provides information about the founders: “Et voto 1723, the two young fellows Caspar and Balthasar Witing had this made.”

Among other things, there is a very realistic depiction of the Last Judgment, where hell is shown as the maw of a monstrous beast, in which the damned burn in fiery flames, and the Lord on the Mount of Olives, Mary, and Mary Magdalene with Jesus and Peter are additional elements.

That this chapel was also an indulgence chapel is confirmed by a small plaque that reads: “Oh come, I pray do not abandon me, a Our Father discount me not.”