!!!Loretto

Loretto, Burgenland, market town in the district of 
Eisenstadt-Umgebung, alt. 218 m, pop. 326, area 
2.38 km%%sup 2/%, old place of pilgrimage dedicated to the Virgin 
Mary, on the north-west slope of the Leithagebirge mountains. Rich 
excavation finds of the Neolithic, Hallstatt and Roman periods. 
Documented mention in 1644; Servite monastery (1651); Baroque 
pilgrimage church (1651-1740), in the cloister (18%%sup th/%  century) 
Loreto chapel (1644) with so-called "Schwarzer Kuchl" (miraculous 
image of 1644) and picture of the Virgin Mary by an Italian master 
from the 17%%sup th/%  century; in front of the church St. 
Mary´s column (around 1700); plague column (1680).

!Literature
S. László, Loretto im Burgenland. Beitraege 
zur Geschichte des Wallfahrtsortes und des Servitenkonventes, 1936.


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