Pilgrimage church Kleinfrauenhaid

The pilgrimage church of the Assumption of Mary, Kleinfrauenhaid in Zemendorf belongs to the deanery of Mattersburg in the Diocese of Eisenstadt. The church is a listed building. The presumably older parish was first mentioned in a document in 1261 and was incorporated into the Stift Lambach from 1692 to 1781. The powerful late Baroque church structure with a west tower was remodeled in 1662 and was heavily damaged during the Second Turkish Siege of Vienna in 1683. Reconstruction began in 1693. The tower was built in 1778 and the church was consecrated in 1785. 

Architecture: The nave with buttresses was built around 1700 and the orientation is in the shape of a Greek cross with a semicircular apse. On the gable facade stands the richly structured three-story church tower with pilaster decoration in the upper floor, segment gables, and an onion dome. The west portal in the tower hall bears the year 1766. South of the nave, the Franz-Xaver Chapel was added in 1694, and to the north, in the second half of the 19th century, a mausoleum for the Rothermann family adorned with terracotta decoration. The two-bay nave under a barrel vault has a gallery above a cross ribbed vault. In the center of the nave are transept-like extensions under a place vault. The vaulted choir with a round apse has a sacristy on the left and a confession chapel on the right.

Furnishings: The high altar features a late Baroque freestanding tabernacle, shaped like a round temple with a dome. On the apse wall, under a rich canopy, is a miraculous image of the Black Madonna based on a Byzantine icon, dated 1460, which is believed to have been painted by Unger from Wiener Neustadt. The miraculous image was transferred here by Prince Paul Esterházy in 1694 from Forchtenstein. The original acanthus frame of the miraculous image was replaced by a silver frame donated in 1736. The side altars bear modern figures. The left side altar features an oil painting of St. Anne teaching Mary to read, by Stephan Dorfmeister from 1784. The oil paintings in the nave, St. John Nepomuk on his deathbed, St. Francis Xavier, St. Family, are also attributed to Dorfmeister. There is a Baroque stone communion grill. Noteworthy is a silver eternal light lamp. The organ dates from 1856.

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