The area there is so beautiful that I simply had to go again. This time I also took the side road leading up to the church of Trögern. Very very few people live there. For miles around there are probably a dozen persons, if that many.
The church opens only once in a while. A small grave yard surrounds it with mostly Slovenian names on the grave stones.
I would like to know why anybody went to the trouble to erect such an edifice in such lonesome countryside. Who knows what pressure was put on the lonely farmers of this area.
The only person I met up there surmised that it might have been a "solemn promise"such as:
"Dear Lord, if you let my wife recover from her sickness, I shall build a church up there, close to heaven."
A guess, just as good as any other.
On the way up to the Chasm of Trögern,
gently rolling hills covered by Spring Green
and blooming trees accompany you all the way.
How many shades of Green ?
The slightly wider than one lane road
snakes along the rushing brook.
In the somewhat hazy distance the highest mountain of the Karawanken chain
the "Hoch Obir" reaches to the clouds.
At the end of a long winding road
we reach the little church of Trögern.
unfortunately, but understandably, the church was locked
so we must be satisfied with those shots of the outside.
Bertstravels
2 comments:
What a great place for a church. I think it's there so people who climb all that way can pray to God they don't die of exhaustion.
or not.
XD
This surely is one reason! The other one is that it serves as a punishment for which the Catholics are great. Thanks for commenting.
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