Piller – Moorland and Cultural Heritage

If you are looking for a hotel in Piller, it is worth first considering what the village has to offer. The Piller Moor represents a natural landscape and environmental education; the chapels and the Alpine Sanctuary add religious and archaeological history to this perspective. This raises a practical question when choosing where to stay: would you like to learn about the formation and vegetation of a raised bog, or are you more interested in sacred buildings, when they were built and the historical evidence they contain?

Natural Landscape and Moor Nature Trail

The Piller Moor is a mountain pine raised bog and was designated a natural monument in 1970. A survey of the Piller moors recorded a total of 150 flowering plants and mosses in 1999.

The nature trail in the Piller Moor is a three-kilometre circular route with seven stops. They cover the formation of moors, moor vegetation and peat extraction; information boards help visitors learn about the moorland. The topics range from natural development and plants to the use of peat. The 11 m-high moor tower offers views across the raised bog. While the trail covers the formation, vegetation and peat extraction, the tower draws your gaze to the moorland as a whole.

Chapels and Sacred History

The Maria Schnee curate church stands in the centre of Piller. The chapels differ in when they were built, their architectural form and their decorative details. The Taschekapelle (Maria Hilf) dates from the second half of the 18th century and was historically remodelled at the end of the 19th century. The Fuchsmooskapelle (Maria Hilf) was built in the mid-19th century in honour of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. The Taschekapelle is therefore older, although its later remodelling marks a further historical phase.

The Moosanger Chapel is a rectangular, two-bay building from the 19th century. It houses a replica of the Lourdes grotto, with Madonna and Bernadette, dating from the early 20th century. The two bays divide the rectangular building, while the Lourdes grotto adds a religious decorative feature. The cemetery chapel contains a plague cross from the late 17th century. The timeline therefore spans the plague cross, the chapels of the 18th and 19th centuries, and the replica of the Lourdes grotto.

Alpine Sanctuary and Fließ Museum

The Alpine Sanctuary at the Piller Sattel lies in the immediate vicinity of the nature park centre. The open-air museum of the Alpine Sanctuary on the Pillerhöhe is part of the Fließ Museum. The valuable votive offerings from the burnt offering site were discovered in 1991 and are now housed in the Archaeological Museum in Fließ. For these votive offerings, both the year they were discovered and their present location are important points of reference.

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