Barbara-Stature

St. Gilgen, Oberösterreich, Österreich
© Annelu Wenter
View of a saint figure behind a grid
Kienbergwand-Tunnel L 217
5310 St. Gilgen
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On March 21, 1897, after years of planning work, the municipal authorities took the decision to break through the Kienberg Wall.
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In the same year, construction work began on the first road link from Scharfling to See. In 1899 it is reported that "the new road Scharfling - See through the Kienberg wall was already very busy this year with wagons, especially cyclists and tourists. "1)

In 1999, a rockfall made it necessary to block the road. When the new road tunnel was opened in 2004, a niche with the statue of St. Barbara was built at the tunnel entrance as a thank you for the accident-free, difficult construction work.

1) Dillinger's Reise- und Fremdenzeitung No. 10 (vol. VIII) of 1. 4. 1897 - p. 8
and No. 29 (X. Ye. ) of 10. 10. 1899 p. 6 (Archive of the ÖAV Mondsee)
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Barbara-Stature
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