place
Kalvarienberg
also: Kalvarienberg, Calvary hill
Any of the devotional Calvary hills found across Catholic Austria and Bavaria — a hillside via crucis with chapels marking the Stations of the Cross, culminating in a crucifixion scene. In Trakl it figures as a site of sacrifice, blood, and devotional grief.
Reading notes
- Sebastian in Dream §8 Calvary
The Kalvarienberg, or Stations of the Cross, a hillside devotional path — literally 'Calvary mountain' — present in many Austrian towns and explicitly echoing Christ's passion-climb to Golgotha.