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Kapelle (Unter-) Lochlehn

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In Lochlehn, 6105 Leutasch

Chapels

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

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