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Altötting
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Altötting (ält-öttĭng), town (1994 pop. 12,060), Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, S Germany, near the Inn River and the Austrian border, 42 mi (68 km) SW of Passau Passau (päs`ou), city (1994 pop.
..... Click the link for more information. . The town is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage center. The Chapel of Mercy (or Chapel of Grace) dates to A.D. 700 and contains a medieval wooden statue of the Virgin Mary, known as the Black Madonna because it has become discolored by candle smoke. The late Romanesque church there contains the tomb of Count Tilly Tilly, Johannes Tserklaes, count of (yōhän`əs tsĕrkläs` tĭl`ē)
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Altoetting, the subject of a famous pilgrimage book by Martin Eisengrein (treated at some length), Andechs, or the Frauenkirche in Munich with the relics of St.
Wondrous in His Saints: Counter-Reformation Propaganda in Bavaria by Gleason, Elisabeth G. / Renaissance Quarterly
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