Saint Notburga
Notburgastraße of mountain rats (* 1265 in rats Mountain, † September 13, 1313 in Rottenburg castle, Buch in Tirol ) is a Tyrolean folk saints. She is worshiped as a saint of maids and agriculture. Associated with this she is venerated in many states as saint of costume racks and conveyors. So is celebrated (near her name ) of the Dirndl Gwand Sunday in Lower Austria on the second Sunday in September.
Life
According to legend, Notburgastraße was born around 1265, the daughter of a hatter in rats mountain. At this time, rats mountain belongs to Bavaria. She worked as a maid at Henry I of Rottenburg Rottenburg on lock. The Lords of Rottenburg were at this time the steward of the Counts of Tyrol. She took care of already at that time to the poor, the handicapped and the sick. So she distributed, with toleration of their masters, the remains of food from the castle to the needy.
When Henry I died and his son Henry II of Rottenburg became the new lord of the castle, forbade his wife Ottilia Notburgastraße to continue to distribute the leftovers to the people. Notburgastraße obeyed and put from then on for yourself regularly fasts one. The food they did not eat on these days, they still distributed to the needy. Also this behavior displeased Ottilia, so they mustered against her husband Notburgastraße.
" Wood chip miracle"
One day, Notburgastraße carried in her apron food for the poor and in his hand a jug of wine, she kept her employer on the courtyard. He wanted to know from her what they carry with them. According to legend, Notburgastraße said to have replied: ". Woodchips and liquor" When Henry II, who gave her no faith, looked to see she wore in her apron only wood chips, and the pitcher was liquor.
However, your employer terminated the employment relationship soon, and Notburgastraße had to leave the Rottenburg. Notburgastraße found in the nearby community of Eben am Achensee employment as a farm girl. They supplied the cattle and helped with the field work. Notburgastraße had the farmer asked the right at the first peal of bells in the evening to stop work to pray.
" Sickle miracle"
One afternoon, the weather threatened to beat, asked the farmer, that no one put down the work until everything cereals was obtained. The first peal Notburgastraße put as always down to work. The farmer, however, they did not want to let her go. According to legend, Notburgastraße threw her sickle in the sky where this was hanging on a sunbeam. The farmer was startled and let Notburgastraße draw.
Back on the Rottenburg
After the death of Henry's wife Ottilia found this, so the legend goes, no rest in the grave. In addition to the Rottenburg a bloody fratricidal war between Henry II of Rottenburg and his brother Siegfried had broken out. During the discussion it was burning on the Rottenburg. In this situation, Henry II recalled his maid Notburgastraße. He asked her to return to the castle. For his wife Heinrich donated an annual supply of 500 arms. Notburgastraße quickly succeeded to establish between the brothers Heinrich and Siegfried peace.
By the end of her life Notburgastraße remained on the Rottenburg. Henry II and his second wife allowed her the supplying and maintaining the poor and sick in the castle.
" Ox - miracle"
Before her death Notburgastraße expressed the wish that one should place her corpse on a cart with two oxen and should buried where the cart stopped. According to legend, the oxen to the carts of the Rottenburg have pulled up to Eben am Achensee. The oxen, so the legend goes, have only stopped in front of the Church in Eben.
Aftermath
Notburgastraße one of the most venerated saints in Eastern Styria, Tyrol and Slovenia. After her death, she was buried before the altar of St. Rupert Church in Eben am Achensee. Due to a very soon onset pilgrimage to her grave, the church was expanded in plane around 1434 and around 1508. On August 22, 1718 her remains were exhumed with the permission of the Bishop of Brixen Kaspar Ignaz von Künigl. 1735 allowed the Bishop of Brixen, to make a full body relic for the Church of Eben from its skeleton. This skeleton is not, as usual, lying in a side chapel, but standing in the altarpiece of the high altar of the church, for which a special privilege was required.
The Adoration of the popular saints Notburgastraße in 1862 by Pope Pius IX. confirmed. Eben am Achensee takes place the solemn procession Notburgastraße on each September 13. She is worshiped as a saint of maids who work rest and celebration evening.
Was opened in 2004 in Eben am Achensee the Notburgastraße Museum.