Wallfahrtskirche Maria Trost, Baroque pilgrimage church in Rohrbach-Berg, Austria

Wallfahrtskirche Maria Trost is a Baroque church perched on a hilltop east of town, accessible by two ancient footpaths lined with small chapels. The interior features a single nave with barrel vaulting and multiple side altars arranged along the walls.

The church was built between 1645 and 1655 on the site of the ruined Berg Castle, whose chapel it replaced. Count Theodorich von Rödern had vowed to build it after Berg was spared from Swedish troops in 1645. A 1667 engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer shows a treeless hill, a church with two towers and a surrounding wall with defensive towers, parts of which survive. Since 1913 the church has belonged to Stift Schlägl.

This site has long served as a destination for pilgrims seeking spiritual connection through devotion to the Madonna figure at its center. Visitors today still walk the chapel-lined paths as an act of reflection and contemplation.

Both pilgrimage paths are clearly marked and relatively easy to walk, though they do climb uphill toward the building. Information boards line the routes and identify each chapel while indicating places to pause and rest.

The two bells hanging in the roof turret until World War I were cast in Linz: the larger by Silvius Creuz in 1752, the smaller by Michael Zöchbaur in 1784. The larger was surrendered for war use in 1917, and both were lost in World War II; the present three-bell peal from the St. Florian foundry replaced them in 1949 and 1955.