Mount of Olives (Görlitz)
The Ölberg in Görlitz (Ölberggarten in Görlitz ) is part of the landscape garden and belongs to the overall ensemble of the Holy Sepulcher . The Ölberggarten can be visited separately in the warm season.
Biblical event
According to tradition from the Holy Scriptures , the following happened in Jerusalem on the eve of Good Friday : After a solemn dinner, Jesus went with his disciples to the Mount of Olives ( Gethsemane ) to pray there. There, under an olive tree, he asked God to avert the imminent imprisonment and death on the cross from him. Meanwhile, his friends were sleeping instead of praying and hoping with him. Jesus felt alone and abandoned.
Jerusalem characteristics
In the late Middle Ages up to the height of the Baroque , Christians felt a need to relive biblical events. Replicas of the holy places were created in many parts of Europe . One of them is the Görlitz Holy Sepulcher, built between 1481 and 1504.
What distinguishes the Görlitz Holy Sepulcher compared to the other European ones is its integration into the landscape , to which the characteristics of the Jerusalem Mount of Olives were symbolically assigned.
On the hill opposite the burial place (biblical Calvary ), the Mount of Olives, a willow was planted symbolically for the olive tree (today a Norway maple ). Below it is the disciples' meadow, the symbol for the sleeping disciples . The stream Lunitz, which flows through the valley between the Mount of Olives and the Holy Sepulcher, became the Kidronbach in accordance with the conditions in Jerusalem .
Originated in Görlitz
In 1913 the municipal crematorium was built in Görlitz on the top of the Mount of Olives and has since dominated the north-east horizon. The area below was used as a field , meadow , sand pit and garbage dump until the 1920s . The Ölberggarten park and garden was built according to the plans of the then horticultural director Heinrich Diekmann between 1923 and 1928 as a strictly formal complex typical of the time. Fruit trees and berry bushes grew in a strict grid on the meadows, a pergola framed the rose terrace above the main path. The importance of the Ölberggarten as a productive fruit area declined over the years, and intensive care was discontinued around 1960.
Walk-listen corridor
Since the opening of the connecting path in 1999, the spatial relationship between the Holy Sepulcher and the Mount of Olives can be experienced again. Since the 500th anniversary in 2004, visitors have been able to stroll along the paths with audio guidance. The Hamburg author and director René Harder composed the “Geh-Hör-Gang” together with the Dresden composer Frieder Zimmermann . On an approximately two-kilometer stretch of the Way of the Cross, in relation to the biblical stations, the dramatic story of its origins and contemporary events come to life. With the guidance of the walk-and-listen course, you walk to the individual stations that are explained. On the replica of the Passion Path of Christ, you get from the crypt of St. Peter's Church to the Holy Sepulcher complex of the oldest religious landscape park in Europe.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 39.1 ″ N , 14 ° 59 ′ 1.6 ″ E