Gastronomy Pilgrimage Church & small restaurant St. Magdalena

Accessible via the normal route with stations of the Way of the Cross or through a via ferrata. Next to the little mountain church there is also a small restaurant where one or the other delicacy is served.

Description

Older than the churches and chapels of Trins and Gschnitz is the little mountain church of St. Magdalena. The special location of the sanctuary dedicated to St. Magdalene and a now dried up spring below the choir point to the Christian succession of a much older pagan place of worship.

Mary Magdalene was the companion of Jesus. Her epithet refers to the place Magdalene on the Sea of Galilee. The saint is the patron saint of women, the seduced, the repentant sinners, pupils, students and prisoners as well as winegrowers, wine merchants, glove makers and hairdressers.

The romanesque church was first documented in 1307. The frescos are among the oldest wall paintings in the region. On the south wall they depict Adam and Eve as well as the flight to Egypt and on the west wall a holy figure in prayer position, probably St. Magdalene. A second cycle of frescoes on the north wall glorifies St. Magdalene in three scenes.

St. Magdalene developed into a popular place of pilgrimage, which was also venerated and given gifts by the sovereign princes. Empress Maria Theresia donated 1000 gulden annually for the pilgrimage church. Her son, Emperor Joseph II, abolished the pilgrimage in 1787 in the course of his reforms. It flourished again after his death.