For more than 300 years, the faithful have gone on pilgrimages to the church of Christkindl. Towards the end of the 17th century Ferdinand Sertl, the tower watchman and bandmaster who suffered from epilepsy, lived in Steyr. He placed a small wax figure of the Christ child into the hollow of a fir tree in the woods of Steyr and was cured. The construction of the present church was begun by Giovanni Battista Carlone in 1702. It was finished by Jakob Prandtauer between 1708 and 1725. Today the small wax figure is housed in a little reliquary on the high altar above the globe-shaped tabernacle.