Christmas - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2008 - 55 Euro Cent

The brand motif shows a part of the "Adoration of the Magi", the centerpiece of the ceiling painting of the nave of the collegiate and parish church of St. Michael in the Flachgauer Dreiseen area. The energetic dean Johann Sebastian Wiesinger - he led the spiritual community from 1680 to 1713 - we owe the high baroque, stuccoed stuccoed frame of Josef Schmidt around 1700. About 1700 also the selected picture was created by a today unknown Salzburg painter (Österreichische Kunsttopographie X , Vienna 1913). On the occasion of a 1851/1852 renovation of most stucco-framed ceiling paintings probably the Salzburg painter Josef Rattensperger (1807-1866) has also strongly overpainted this fresco in folk-Nazarene sense. The pre-Carolingian wooden church, a founding of the Bavarian Duke Tassilo III. around 765, is replaced after 955 by a single-nave Ottonian hall church and in the 12th century by a three-nave Romanesque collegiate church. A devastating fire in 1276 may have led to an almost equivalent to a new construction conversion to the present church. Gradually, the interior and structural additions (eg. Late medieval cloister, provostry). Particularly worth seeing is a visit to the very appealing collegiate museum in the provost, among others with a documentary on the salvation of the Hungarian crown insignia in 1945, old documents, a high-quality Gothic Madonna and Child, a collection of paintings with three Johann Michael Rottmayr panels and much more.