The Chasm and the church of TRÖGERN !

I know that I have visited the "Trögerner Klamm" ( the Chasm of Trögern ) during Summer of last year.
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