Structures - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1958 - 2 Shilling

The brand motif shows the front view of the Gnadenkirche of Christkindl in Upper Austria. The names of two important master builders of Austrian Baroque, namely Carlo Antonio Carlone and Jakob Prantauer, are associated with this pilgrimage church. Both were builders of the Benedictine monastery Garsten, from which the construction of the chapel had run out. The pilgrimage church of Christkindl was built at the beginning of the 18th century and is a circular central building with a drum dome and four connected to the circular central semicircular apses, in which the high altar and the four side altars are. In front of the fourth apse, there is a small vestibule between two double-storey towers, which frame the tambour of the lower bell-shaped dome with their upper floors. The large double windows of the spool give the interior full and evenly bright light. The Church of Christkindl was known in 1958 for eight years in the whole world, because philatelists and many other people in Germany and abroad had sent their Christmas wishes on the occasional post office of the place Christkindl.