Christmas - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2011 - 70 Euro Cent

On the northern Sellrainer valley side is located on a steep slope at 1243 m altitude, the romantic mountain church of St. Quirin (popularly called "St. Kerin"), which is also visible on clear autumn days from Innsbruck. A painting of this little church, created by the old bishop dr. Reinhold Stecher, adorns the motif of this year's Advent brand. History: For the first time St. Quirin was named in a letter of indulgence by Prince-Bishop Friedrich von Erdingen from Bressanone in July 1391 and described therein as "existing long ago". After the strong growth of the Talbevölkerung during the second half of the 15th century in 1485 began with the construction of the now too small chapel. The completion of the late Gothic building was finally in 1496. In St. Quirin existed possibly an early medieval Martinskirche, the two patrons Quirin and Veit but only occurred in the high Middle Ages. Since it is clearly Quirin von Neuss, whose relics did not come from Rome to Germany until about 1000 AD, a worship before 1100 AD in the Inn Valley is difficult to imagine. Due to the order of patronage in the letter of indulgence of 1391 Quirin displaced St. Martin as the main patron. Interestingly, this Quirin is not only a patron against ulcers and rashes, but especially that of healthy water, so that the choice of Patroziniums could have something to do with the so-called "Prunnhof" in St. Quirin. Perhaps the water of this spring also had such a healing effect as that of Bad Rothenbrunn, because even Veit was in the high Middle Ages Patron against diseases and epilepsy. Until the parish was established in Rothenbrunn in 1786, St. Quirin was on the one hand the common meeting place for all Sellrainer who went to Axams every Sunday for Mass. On the other hand, the Axam pastor had to read a few masses in "Sankt Krein" every year, for example the Saint's Memorial Day on the 30th of March. From the church equipment and the traditional church bills one recognizes the former meaning of the St. Quirin church. According to an official inventory, it had in 1807 three bells weighing eight, two and a hundredweight. Today there are only two left in the tower: one, St. Josefsglocke, comes from the workshop of Johann Grassmayr (1801-1883). The other one, with the relief of St. Quirinus and Vitus, bears the inscription "Cast Johann Schellenner to Insprug". This bell is known as the weather bell "Annemarie" in Sellraintal and can be heard as far as Grinzens. The vernacular knows even from the weather bell to tell that it protects against evil demons and spirits.