Filzmoos is a municipality in the province of Salzburg in the district of St. Johann im Pongau in Austria. The municipality has shares in the UNESCO World Heritage Hallstatt-Dachstein/Salzkammergut. The municipality is located in the northeastern Pongau, at the foot of the Dachstein Mountains on the state border with Upper Austria and Styria.
Culture and sights
Filzmoos parish and pilgrimage church: late Gothic, 15th century, the "Filzmooser Kindl" is venerated here.
Legend of the Filzmooser Kindl: two shepherds who were camping in the area found, where the original chapel built in 1820 stands today, a carved Jesukindl, standing on a tree stump. It raised its fingers and rang a little bell. This Jesukindl was taken by the shepherds to the deanery church in Altenmarkt, but it returned overnight to its place in Filzmoos. Since then it has been enthroned in a halo above the altar in the Filzmoos parish church, and healings of the sick and salvation from hardships are attributed to it.
Oberhof: The farm was first mentioned in a document in 1285. In 1333 the Freisasse "Alblinno at the farm" was active as a farmer (the Freisassen were not free people, but the archbishop's own people, who sat as farmers on estates that did not belong to the archbishop, but to his vassals, such as the Goldegger or Frundsberger). Around 1604 the farm belonged to the noble knightly family of the Antretter and the Hofer family were their serfs and were then able to buy their way out and the farm has therefore been owned by the Hofer-Hofer-Salchegger family since 1648. In 1936, the Salzburg provincial government granted the hereditary farm right.
Farm museum: is located in the Oberhof, one of the oldest buildings in Filzmoos, which is maintained by the owner and farmer Christian Salchegger with his wife Johanna. At the Oberhof there is a memorial plaque to the German poet Agnes Miegel, whose maternal ancestors descended from the Oberhof (emigration of Salzburg Protestants in 1732).
Oberhofalm: the Oberhofalm in Filzmoos, a well-known excursion destination in the Hofalm area at the foot of the Bischofsmütze, Gosaustein and Torstein (Dachstein mountains), also belongs to the Oberhof. The Oberhof is still a fully intact agricultural farm.
Unterhofalm: also the Unterhofalm in Filzmoos, is a well-known excursion destination in the Hofalm area at the foot of the Bischofsmütze, the Gosaustein and Torstein (Dachstein mountains).
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