Upper Swabian pilgrimage route
The Upper Swabian Pilgrimage Route is a pilgrimage route in the Upper Swabia region , in which around 80 pilgrimage sites and eleven monasteries in southern Baden-Württemberg in Germany take part. The pilgrimage route includes seven so-called loops , each of which connects around 15 places of pilgrimage . The path leads the pilgrims together over 1000 kilometers between Ulm , Berkheim , Amtzell and Beuron to a total of over one hundred pilgrimage sites, monasteries and spiritual centers.
history
The Association of Friends and Patrons of Oberschwäbischer Pilgerweg eV is responsible for routing and integrating the pilgrimage sites and monasteries . V. On the occasion of the anniversary “250 years of pilgrimage to the Sorrowful Mother of God”, the first loop of the Upper Swabian pilgrimage route was ceremoniously opened on September 21, 2008 in Friedberg . Via it and the other six loops, the pilgrims should be brought closer to the well-known places of pilgrimage of Marian veneration such as Weingarten , Steinhausen or Zwiefalten, as well as small places with their "farmer and homeland saints" who are no longer so conscious. The official opening of the pilgrimage took place on Trinity Sunday, June 7th, 2009 in Bad Schussenried.
course
The individual loops of the Upper Swabian Pilgrimage Route are marked with 10 by 15 cm plaques with the same logo, but in different colors.
Loop 1 - Between buses and the Danube
Buses - Riedlingen - Altheim - Bad Saulgau - Bad Schussenried - Bad Buchau - Ertingen - buses ; 132 kilometers
- Fines
A pilgrimage church on the 767 meter high Busses , the " Holy Mountain of Upper Swabia ", one of the most visited pilgrimage sites in this region and an excellent panoramic mountain with a view of the Alps , is mentioned for the first time in 805. The current church of St. Johannes Baptist dates back to 1516. Today's appearance is the result of restoration work from 1960 to 1963. Pilgrimages to the veneration of the painful Mother of God have been attested on buses since 1521. Busses have been the destination of the great men and family pilgrimages on Whit Monday since the 1950s . A pilgrimage of the fidelity of the Association of Returnees to the Homecoming Memorial, inaugurated on August 31, 1958, also takes place every year. From the bus, the pilgrimage route continues towards Unlingen .
- Unlingen
In Unlingen and its suburbs, there are four churches in particular, the Catholic parish church Maria Immaculata , a baroque church with a high altar by the Riedlinger sculptor Johann Joseph Christian and his son Franz Joseph Christian, the former Franciscan monastery from 1414 (today town hall) and the baroque monastery chapel from the 17th century. Century to visit. After crossing the Danube you reach the city of Riedlingen .
- Riedlingen
Riedlingen is located on the Upper Swabian Baroque Route , the German Framework Road , on the Danube Bike Path and the cycle path Danube Bodensee . The pilgrims visit the landmark of the historic old town, the Catholic parish church of St. George . The oldest representation dates from 1589. The organ built by Hartwig Späth in 1997 is a national attraction . The pilgrimage route leads from Riedlingen up to Heiligkreuztal.
- Altheim-Heiligkreuztal
Here, in the same suburb of the municipality Altheim , is the former Cistercian - Kloster Heiligkreuztal , the resulting best of the six former Cistercian monasteries in Swabia. The monastery was founded in 1227. Even before that time, however, there was a monastic institution in the neighboring village of Altheim, which had emerged from a Beguine Society and whose origin is set to the year 1140; this society, called the gray sisters because of their clothing, turned to the abbot of Salem with a request to join the local monastery association, which was granted in 1204. During its existence it was under the supervision of Baden . As a result of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , Heiligkreuztal fell to the later Kingdom of Württemberg in 1803 and was dissolved. However, the nuns were allowed to stay before the last of them had to leave the monastery in 1843. The current shape of the monastery building dates from the beginning to the middle of the 18th century under the abbess Maria Holzapfel (1723–1761). The plasterer Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer stuccoed the ceiling above the nuns' choir in 1754 . At that time, an archive of documents and an important library with over a thousand volumes were also established. Out of gratitude, the founders and benefactors of the monastery received their burial place in the monastery church. The best-known piece of equipment in the church is the Christ-John group set up in the apse , a wooden sculpture by an unknown artist from the first half of the 14th century. The devotional image depicts Christ and his favorite disciple Johannes .
Shortly after the secularization, the buildings were used for a temporary administrative office and as the seat of a forestry department. Most of the valuable inventory, the library and the archive came to Stuttgart. After the nuns finally moved out, the building fell into disrepair and was replaced in 1972 by the Aulendorfer Stefanuswerk e. V. (today the Stefanus Community ), which created a place for Christian encounters in it.
- Massen-Ennetach
The Catholic parish of St. Cornelius and Cyprian is located in the Ennetach district of Mengen . It can show the two saints Cornelius and Cyprian as parish church patrons since 819 . Due to the donation of the "Villa Maginga" with church in 819 to the Buchau monastery , particles of the relics of the two saints from the Buchau monastery to Ennetach this year . According to the Zender directory, they are used again as cartridges in 1275 and 1344. As the patronage church of the Buchau monastery, the Buchau abbess also had the right to present in Ennetach. The current church building dates from 1491; it was built according to the plans of the Stuttgart builder Alberlin Jörg . The tower dates from the year 1100. The works of the Ulm master Jörg Syrlin the Younger (crucifixion group, 1496; Dreisitz (so-called Levite chair ), 1506; choir stalls, 1509) are remarkable in the village church . The Gothic lace carvings come from Weckmann the Elder . The oldest witness in the church is a baptismal font from 1299 . The famous Ennetach altar panels by Jörg Stocker from 1496 are now in the princely art collection in Sigmaringen Castle .
- Hohentengen
In Hohentengen , the St. Michael Church, originally from the 15th century - it was rebuilt in 1851 and is considered the most important church building of the middle of the century in Upper Swabia, and the Marienkapelle , the oldest chapel in the area, are worth mentioning. The Marienkapelle is of Gothic origin, was converted to Baroque style in 1784 and was formerly a pilgrimage church.
- Bad Saulgau-Friedberg
The baroque parish church in the Bad Saulgau district of Friedberg was inaugurated on May 18, 1733 after three years of construction by the auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Constance , Franz Johann Anton von und zu Sirgenstein . The church was built by the famous builder of the Teutonic Order Johann Caspar Bagnato . The pastor Johann Conrad Fürst, who came from Herbertingen, gave the building contract for the new building of the church because the old church had become dilapidated. For at least 250 years, the Pietà on the high altar and the miraculous image of a Sorrowful Mother of God dressed in black and framed with a blue cloth border has been a destination for pilgrims. Pope Benedict XIV awarded the parish church a letter of indulgence on April 18, 1748. This formally began the pilgrimage to this miraculous image.
- Bad Saulgau, Sießen Abbey
The Sießen Monastery is a Dominican nunnery founded in 1260 and built in 1519. All monastery buildings were renovated between 1716 and 1722 and remodeled in the Baroque style. In the course of secularization , the monastery was dissolved. The buildings have been used as a monastery by the Franciscan nuns since 1860 . In the “Hummel-Saal”, works by Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel are exhibited, whose pictures serve as models for the world-famous Hummel figures, for example the hikers , the gooseies and the accordion cub . The St. Markus monastery church , built in 1725, shows late Baroque frescoes by the brothers Dominikus and Johann Baptist Zimmermann , as well as early Rococo stucco work, carvings and paintings by Zehender.
- Bad Saulgau
St. Johannes Baptist , the town church of Bad Saulgau , is a high Gothic pillar basilica and shows characteristics of the Romantic and Gothic . It is centrally located on the paved historic market square. The initially Romanesque church from 1170 was extended between 1390 and 1402 in the Gothic style. As part of an interior restoration in 1985, the late Gothic character was combined with modern furnishings. The picture “Flagellation of Christ” by Otto Dix belongs to the equipment. The gold-plated sphere below the cock on the church tower is hollow, but not empty. It contains a roll of documents with historical documents that are updated every time the tower is renovated. This memorable act also took place in 2008: the architect wrote a 29-page report on the renovation on the copper roll of documents. This supplements the documents from 1975 with documents from 2008.
The Kreuz- or Schwedenkapelle , Protestant church in Bad Saulgau, was built around 1450 and was a medieval pilgrimage site. The furnishings include a Romanesque grand cross, also known as the Staufer Christ , from around 1170 , as well as the colored woodcuts of the Way of the Cross by HAP Grieshaber .
The pilgrimage church of St. Georg in the Saulgau district of Untereggatsweiler is a new building by Michael Mohr with a baroque interior and ceiling frescoes.
- Bad Schussenried
Worth seeing are the surviving buildings of the company founded in 1183 schussenried abbey , a former Norbertine - Empire pin . In 1748 a new construction of the entire monastery complex began, of which hardly half could be carried out. Dominikus Zimmermann provided the plans for this ; a wooden model has been preserved. The construction manager was Jakob Emele , who was appointed monastery builder in 1750 and ousted Zimmermann. The building project followed the example of the Wiblingen Abbey . Both monasteries are characterized by their towering library halls in the north wing of the monastery complex. A chapter house in the east was demolished in the early 19th century. From the Middle Ages, shortly before the new monastery was built, St. Magnus Church , a three-aisled basilica with Baroque furnishings, including the choir stalls by Georg Anton Machein and ceiling frescoes by Johannes Zick, has been preserved . The monastery church should actually have been replaced by a new building according to Emele's plans, but that never happened.
- Bad Schussenried-Steinhausen
The pilgrimage church of St. Peter and Paul , built from 1728 in the Steinhausen district of Schussenried, is one of Dominikus Zimmermann's main works . The pilgrimage church is both a main attraction on the Upper Swabian Baroque Route and the Upper Swabian Way of St. James , a section of the Way of St. James to the legendary tomb of the Apostle James the Elder in Santiago de Compostela, Spain . This disciple can be found as a ceiling painting in the house of God. The church has also been a parish church since 1865 and is often referred to as the “most beautiful village church in the world”. However, this name is rather misleading, since the "village church" was built as a pilgrimage church by the wealthy Schussenried monastery and, as a pure parish church, would be completely oversized for a village of this size.
- Bad Buchau
The Reichsstift Buchau was according to legend, to 770 on the island of Buchau in Federsee founded. In 819 the monastery received possessions in Saulgau and in quantities from Emperor Ludwig the Pious . In 857 it is named as the monastery of Ludwig the German . At the time, Irmengard , the king's daughter, was abbess in Buchau. In the 13th century the monastery was assigned to the Augustinian order , but was afterwards a canoness pen for noble ladies from Swabia . In 1347 the abbess was named as a princess. In 1415 the monastery was converted into a secular monastery. It could expand its estates, creating a small territory. In 1625 the feudal lordship of Straßberg fell back to the monastery. In 1803 the monastery came to the Thurn und Taxis family , which administered it as part of the Imperial Principality of Buchau . In 1806 it came under constitutional law to Württemberg , but the former rulership of Straßberg fell to Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen . After complete restoration, extensions and modernizations in 1991 and 1992, the building called the “castle” by the Buchauers now serves as a rehabilitation clinic for neurology and psychosomatic medicine .
The collegiate church of St. Cornelius and Cyprianus , built by Pierre Michel d'Ixnard from 1774 to 1776, is one of the first buildings of classicism in southern Germany with late baroque furnishings. The furnishings include stucco sculptures by Johann Joseph Christian and paintings by Johann Friedrich Sichelbein .
- Ertingen
The Marienkapelle in Ertingen , a gem of the Baroque era, dates back to 1755. It contains a wooden miracle cross by Johann Joseph Christian .
Loop 2 - between Lauchert and Lake Constance
Quantities - Scheer - Veringenstadt - Sigmaringen - Inzigkofen - Beuron - Engelswies - Messkirch - Heiligenberg - Pfullendorf - Ostrach - Mengen ; 153 kilometers
- amounts
In quantities is the soon after the survey Mengen to the city (1276) built Gothic church to our dear Frowen , a three-aisled basilica. In 1750 it was adapted to the Baroque style, and in 1993 it was redesigned. The place of grace in the Church of Our Lady is the Mount of Olives Chapel, built in 1479.
- Massen-Ennetach
The Catholic parish of St. Cornelius and Cyprian is located in the Ennetach district of Mengen . It can show the two saints Cornelius and Cyprian as parish church patrons since 819 . Due to the donation of the "Villa Maginga" with church in 819 to the Buchau monastery , particles of the relics of the two saints from the Buchau monastery to Ennetach this year . According to the Zender directory, they are used again as cartridges in 1275 and 1344. As the patronage church of the Buchau monastery, the Buchau abbess also had the right to present in Ennetach. The current church building dates from 1491; it was built according to the plans of the Stuttgart builder Alberlin Jörg . The tower dates from the year 1100. The works of the Ulm master Jörg Syrlin the Younger (crucifixion group, 1496; Dreisitz (so-called Levite chair ), 1506; choir stalls, 1509) are remarkable in the village church . The Gothic lace carvings come from Weckmann the Elder . The oldest witness in the church is a baptismal font from 1299 . The famous Ennetach altar panels by Jörg Stocker from 1496 are now in the princely art collection in Sigmaringen Castle .
- Scheer
The late Gothic castle , built between 1485 and 1496 by Andreas von Sonnenberg from Waldburg , and the castle church above the town of Scheer in the Danube valley determine its image. The three-gabled castle underwent changes in the Renaissance style and has not been significantly changed since then. It is privately owned, inhabited and not accessible.
The Nikolauskirche , parish church of Scheer, was built in the 14th century as a three-aisled basilica and changed to Baroque style in the middle of the 18th century . Artists like Bernhard Göz , Nikolaus Schütz and Joseph Esperlin made the church a baroque gem. In addition to rich stucco decorations and paintings, sculptures by Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer are also part of the furnishings. In 1604 the three siblings Walburga, Willibald and Wunibald were raised to hereditary patrons of the Waldburg family ; their relics on the three saints altar make Scheer a much-visited place of pilgrimage.
- Veringenstadt
The pilgrimage church of Maria Deutstetten in Veringenstadt is also a cemetery chapel. The original parish can be traced back to 1241. The Pietà dates from 1417/1429, the baroque furnishings essentially from the 17th century. The main altar is on the east wall of the choir, the two side altars in front of the choir arch. The famous Pietà stands in a large arched field of the main altar between twisted columns. The barrel-shaped pulpit is attached to the south arch. Votive tablets from the years 1713 to 1830 remind of the heyday of the pilgrimage during this time.
- Sigmaringen-Laiz
In the Sigmaringen district of Laiz , next to the inconspicuous former women's monastery, there is the pilgrimage church “St. Peter and Paul ”. The Laiz parish church has numerous sacred works of art from the Gothic and Baroque periods. The choir frescoes date from around 1430, the choir pictures and frescoes are the work of the Sigmaringen baroque painter Andreas Meinrad von Ow (1712–1792). The church also houses the altar of grace and the Magdalene altar. In addition, she has several important figurative works, including various depictions of the Madonna and some interesting tombs. In the 19th century, numerous repairs were necessary at the Laizer parish church, but these could only be repaired slowly due to lack of money. It was not until 1887 that the church was restored and a new rectory was built.
- Inzigkofen
The former Augustinian Choir Foundation in Inzigkofen was founded in 1354. The current building dates from the years 1659–63 and has a cloister, prelate hall and stucco ceilings. The former collegiate church of St. Johannes Baptist has a tower from 1484, but was rebuilt in 1780 according to plans by the Haigerloch master builder Christian Großbayer . It was given its largely classical form today with the impressive high altar. The nun's gallery shows an elaborate grid made of twigs and paper mache.
- Beuron
Famous is Beuron by the Benedictine - Erzabtei which the center of the Beuronese congregation represents. The monastery was founded in 1077 as an Augustinian choir monastery. After its dissolution in the course of secularization in 1803, its area became the property of the Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen . In 1863 the monastery was re-established as a Benedictine monastery and in 1868 elevated to the status of an abbey, from which the foundation of many other Benedictine monasteries proceeded. Some of the buildings were designed by Franz Beer (1694 to 1707) and some are new. The baroque monastery complex has remarkable rooms and a large monastery library. In the late 19th century, Beuron was the center of the Beuron art school and the Beuron Theological College, which had been closed since 1967 but legally continued .
In 1892 the life-size statue of Our Lady of Lourdes was erected in the Liebfrauental . From this a pilgrimage developed to the Lourdes grotto, which is still alive today.
- Inzigkofen-Engelswies
In the Inzigkofener district of Engelswies there is the pilgrimage church of Our Lady of Sorrows ; a pilgrimage has been documented in ancient records since 1112. Gottfried Werner von Zimmer had a new pilgrimage church built in 1516 and 1517. Since the 14th century , there is a pilgrimage in honor of Our Lady of Sorrows and St. Verena in Meßkirch immediately adjacent and belonging to the parish of St. Martin's Church Meßkircher Engelswies. Its construction had to give way to a baroque church in the 18th century. The last interior renovation of the pilgrimage church and the uncovering of the mirror images on the organ gallery took place in 2001/2002.
A cult is assumed for the St. Verena Chapel as early as the 7th century . Legend has it that because of the prolonged heat there was a great lack of water and a shepherd boy believed that he was going to die of thirst and therefore turned to God and Saint Mary . He was raised. The Virgin Mary and Saint Verena appeared to him. Saint Verena poured water from her apron onto the earth, where a spring immediately sprang up. Our Lady touched the water with a staff and blessed it. According to a written source, the spring had not quenched the thirst of people and animals over the centuries, but rather cleansed the sick, plague, miserable, afflicted, obsessed and lepers from their bad conditions and made them healthy. The pious people therefore had a chapel built near the Verena fountain, in what is now called “Kohlhau”. Twice a year, on Trinity Sunday and the first Sunday in September, the faithful of the town and the surrounding area march in procession to the "Käppele" to venerate the well saint Verena. In 1730, the chapel received its present form through a thorough renovation.
- Messkirch
The parish church of St. Martin is the Catholic church in Meßkirch . Originally a Gothic hall church founded in Franconia around 750, it was rebuilt in 1526 as a late Gothic column basilica by Lorenz Reder under Gottfried Werner von Zimmer, redesigned between 1769 and 1773 in the Rococo style and with paintings by Andreas Meinrad von Au and Stuck by Johann Jakob Schwarzmann from Schnifis equipped. The Baroque style St. John of Nepomuk Chapel ( Nepomukkapelle ) was from 1732 to 1739 as an extension to the Gothic church under the patronage of Mr. Prince Froben Ferdinand von Furstenberg-Meßkirch and after plans by Johann Caspar Bagnato built and by the Munich Asam brothers ( Cosmas Damian and Egid Quirin Asam ) around the relics of St. Nepomuk .
- Heiligenberg, Ramsberg
In the forest near Heiligenberg , at what was once Ramsberg Castle , there is the St. Wendelin Castle Chapel, which probably dates back to Roman times . The structure of the chapel goes back to the high medieval castle complex ( 11th century ) of the Counts of Ramsberg and Pfullendorf. It is the base of the keep , which, however, was at least twice as high. It is possible, but not certain, that there was already a chapel in this castle tower. The painting of the choir room (pictures on the front side) was done on the dried plaster and the style is in the tradition of the late Gothic painting school of the Lake Constance area. The year in the triumphal arch dates the painting in the Ramsberg Chapel to 1467. The Marian motifs on the front side indicate a Marian patronage. The friezes of saints on the choir walls can only be partially clearly assigned today, further patrons are the saints Sebastian and Christopher (window opening) as well as Wendelin, Agnes, Florian and Agatha (left wall from left to right).
- Pfullendorf
The pilgrimage church Maria Schray in Pfullendorf can be dated before 1480. Maria Schray is kept in the Rococo style. The stucco is by Johann Jakob Schwarzmann , the plait style altars are by Fidelis Mock . The furnishings also include an early Baroque pilgrimage Madonna and a Winterhalter organ.
- Ostrach-Habsthal
The monastery Habsthal , actually Benedictine Monastery of Our Lady Habsthal is one of Benedictine occupied monastery in Habsthal , a suburb Ostrachs . The monastery building is a closed four-wing complex from the 17th century , the Catholic parish church St. Stefan, Benedictine monastery church was built in 1680 according to plans by Jodokus Beer . It was refurbished in 1748 and now appears as a hall church with the choir just closed. St. Stefan harbors a lot of artistic treasures and illustrates the devotion to Mary in the works of art , which was the focus of her theology, which has existed for almost 600 years.
Loop 3 - Between Linzgau and Schussen
Aulendorf - Altshausen - Bad Saulgau - Hohentengen - Ostrach - Königseggwald - Horgenzell - Berg - Fronreute - Wolpertswende - Bad Waldsee - Aulendorf ; 126 kilometers
- Aulendorf
A Schoenstatt Chapel was consecrated in Aulendorf in 1976 . It quickly developed into a popular place of pilgrimage, its image of grace bears the title Mother Thrice Admirable, Queen and Victor of Schoenstatt .
One of the most beautiful viewpoints in Upper Swabia, the Hohenkreuzberg , is located north of Aulendorf: Here you will find a chapel consecrated in 1859 and a large wooden cross built in 1842.
- Altshausen
The parish and castle church of St. Michael rises mightily above the former Teutonic order castle in Altshausen .
The Holy Sepulcher near the parish and palace church is a baroque holy grave made in 1763 on behalf of Landkomtur Christian Moritz Graf von Königsegg-Rothenfels in the chapel of the Holy Sepulcher built in 2002/03 on behalf of Carl Duke of Württemberg . The work of art consists of a large painted canvas, arcades and wooden picture panels. Motifs of the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus are depicted with life-size figures. Nothing is known anymore about the craftsmen and painters who carried out the work on the Holy Sepulcher.
- Bad Saulgau-Heratskirch
The small Romanesque chapel in Heratskirch is dedicated to St. James . It is located on a feeder road to the Camino de Santiago . Its interior houses three late Gothic wooden sculptures from the workshop of Michel Erhart , created around 1500 in Ulm: Madonna and Child as well as the Saints James and Wendelinus. It was incorporated into the Sießen monastery in 1447 and parish to Sießen until 1816 .
- Bad Saulgau, Sießen Abbey
The Sießen Monastery is a Dominican nunnery founded in 1260 and built in 1519. All monastery buildings were renovated between 1716 and 1722 and remodeled in the Baroque style. In the course of secularization , the monastery was dissolved. The buildings have been used as a monastery by the Franciscan nuns since 1860 . In the “Hummel-Saal”, works by Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel are exhibited, whose pictures serve as models for the world-famous Hummel figures, for example the hikers , the gooseies and the accordion cub . The St. Markus monastery church , built in 1725, shows late Baroque frescoes by the brothers Dominikus and Johann Baptist Zimmermann , as well as early Rococo stucco work, carvings and paintings by Zehender.
- Bad Saulgau-Friedberg
The baroque parish church in the Bad Saulgau district of Friedberg was inaugurated on May 18, 1733 after three years of construction by the auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Constance , Franz Johann Anton von und zu Sirgenstein . The church was built by the famous builder of the Teutonic Order Johann Caspar Bagnato . The pastor Johann Conrad Fürst, who came from Herbertingen, gave the building contract for the new building of the church because the old church had become dilapidated. For at least 250 years, the Pietà on the high altar and the miraculous image of a Sorrowful Mother of God dressed in black and framed with a blue cloth border has been a destination for pilgrims. Pope Benedict XIV awarded the parish church a letter of indulgence on April 18, 1748. The pilgrimage to this Hohentengen formally began. In Hohentengen , the church of St. Michael , originally from the 15th century - it was rebuilt in 1851 and is considered the most important church building of the middle of the century in Upper Swabia, and the Marienkapelle , the oldest chapel in the area, are worth mentioning . The Marienkapelle is of Gothic origin, was converted to Baroque style in 1784 and was formerly a pilgrimage church.
- Hohentengen
In Hohentengen , the St. Michael Church, originally from the 15th century - it was rebuilt in 1851 and is considered the most important church building of the middle of the century in Upper Swabia, and the Marienkapelle , the oldest chapel in the area, are worth mentioning. The Marienkapelle is of Gothic origin, was converted to Baroque style in 1784 and was formerly a pilgrimage church.
- Ostrach-Habsthal
The monastery Habsthal , actually Benedictine Monastery of Our Lady Habsthal is one of Benedictine occupied monastery in Habsthal , a suburb Ostrachs . The monastery building is a closed four-wing complex from the 17th century , the Catholic parish church St. Stefan, Benedictine monastery church was built in 1680 according to plans by Jodokus Beer . It was refurbished in 1748 and now appears as a hall church with the choir just closed. St. Stefan harbors a lot of artistic treasures and illustrates the devotion to Mary in the works of art , which was the focus of her theology, which has existed for almost 600 years.
- Koenigseggwald
The parish church of St. Georg in Königseggwald goes back to a prayer house donated in 970, which was extended from 1481 to 1490 by Hans von Costenz to a Gothic, three-aisled basilica.
A Way of the Cross laid out in 1907 leads to the Marienkapelle, built in 1888, both of which were donated by the counts of the Königsegg family .
- Horgenzell-Hasenweiler
The parish and pilgrimage church of the Birth of Mary is located in the Horgenzell district of Hasenweiler , and its furnishings were shaped by the Weingarten monastery . The pulpit by the Weingarten sculptor Fidel Sporer is evidence of the Baroque era (1756 to 1760) . The high altar picture (1724) is by Gabriel Roth , the miraculous picture shows a copy of the famous picture by Lucas Cranach the Elder , Maria-Hilf with a halo . A pilgrimage has existed since 1797.
- Horgenzell-Wolketsweiler
In Wolketsweiler the place of worship is Sacred Grove , a 1886 by the then chaplain in Wilhelmskirch scale Lourdes Grotto , which over the years with Calvary, Mount of Olives grotto, wooden cross and wayside shrine was expanded.
- Berg-Kellenried
The Kellenried Abbey in Berger district Kellenried in 1924 as a Benedictine - monastery of Beuron Congregation founded. The existing monastery is designated as a cultural monument. The first sisters came from the St. Hemma Monastery in Gurk in Carinthia and from the St. Gabriel Abbey . The monastery was named after Saint Erentraud , the first abbess of the Nonnberg Benedictine Abbey in Salzburg . The Abbey Church of St. Erentraud was built in a baroque style by the Freiburg government building officer Adolf J. Lorenz on the western ridge of the Schussental . The foundation stone was laid on July 15, 1923. The architect combined elements of neo-baroque , art nouveau and new objectivity in the monastery building . The monastery was occupied on September 7, 1924.
- Fronreute-Staig
The pilgrimage chapel St. Magnus and Agatha , one of the oldest chapels in Upper Swabia, is located in the Fronreut district . She has a rich treasure trove of figures: the two church patrons Agatha and Magnus, a figure of Mary from the Ulm school , an Anna selbdritt (around 1500) and the plague patron Sebastian .
- Wolpertswende
The Gangolf chapel with fountain house in Wolpertswende , built in 1705, was an important place of pilgrimage for the farmers in the area until the 19th century : a spring that did not dry up until 1924 was supposed to bring recovery for horses and cattle.
- Bad Waldsee-Reute
In Reute , a district of Bad Waldsee to the south , there is the Franciscan convent with the pilgrimage church of St. Peter and Paul . In the left aisle is the pilgrimage shrine, the grave of Elisabeth Achler (1386–1420), known as Gute Beth .
Loop 4 - Between Schussen and Allgäu
Bad Waldsee - Bad Schussenried - Weingarten - Ravensburg - Zeil Castle - Bad Wurzach - Bergatreute - Bad Waldsee ; 200 kilometers
Loop 5 - Between Iller and Riss
Biberach an der Riss - Bad Schussenried - Ochsenhausen - Regglisweiler - Schwendi - Biberach an der Riss ; 188 kilometers
Loop 6 - Between Danube and Riss
Ehingen on the Danube - Rottenacker - Grundsheim - Bihlafingen - Ulm - Oberdischingen - Ehingen on the Danube ; 114 kilometers
Loop 7 - Between Federsee and Danube
Unlingen - Seekirch - Emerkingen - Dächingen - Munderkingen - Zwiefalten - Unlingen ; 100 kilometers
society
The Association of Friends and Patrons of the Oberschwäbischer Pilgerweg e. V. supports the project "Oberschwäbischer Pilgerweg" organizationally and financially. Around eighty individuals and corporations have become members since it was founded. The association is based in Bad Saulgau.
literature
- Association of Friends and Patrons Oberschwäbischer Pilgerweg e. V. (Ed.): Oberschwäbischer Pilgerweg . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei GmbH & Co. KG, Biberach an der Riss 2009, ISBN 978-3-933614-45-2 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Rolled history slumbers on the tower . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from November 19, 2008
- ↑ a b See Badische Heimat. Issue 21-22. 1934, p. 126
- ↑ The Engelswieser pastor Brendle recorded the origin of the pilgrimage in writing in 1717 according to existing documents.
- ↑ The time of the building is not known
- ↑ Listed! The 10 oldest sacred buildings ... In: Südkurier from June 17, 2011
- ↑ Bolstern . In: Hans Willbold: City of Saulgau - A small guide. A guide through the city of Saulgau and its history . ed. from City of Saulgau, Gebr. Edel, Saulgau July 1998, p. 98f. here p. 99
- ↑ Building history. Abbey site. Retrieved December 2, 2014.