Mountain Chapel (Erolzheim)
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The mountain chapel, also called Frohberg chapel , is a pilgrimage chapel at 629 m above sea level. NN meter high Frohberg in Erolzheim in the Biberach district in Upper Swabia . The chapel of the von Bernhardt family and a former hermitage have been added to the chapel, which was originally built in 1670 and face east . During the renovation in 2009, the Hermitage was converted into a pilgrims' hostel . The location of the Froberg chapel is identical to the location of the lost Erolzheim Castle . A way of the cross connects the chapel with the parish church of St. Martin, which is centrally located in the village. The chapel is located in the pastoral care unit Illertal 1 of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese , a station in a section of the Upper Swabian Pilgrimage Route , is supported by a private association and is only used for extraordinary church services.
description
The chapel stands about 70 meters above the village of Erolzheim, on the ridge of wooden sticks , above the Iller valley and, when the weather is clear, offers a good all-round view of the silhouette of the Alps and the Alpine foothills. Even when the weather is not clear, you can see the steeples and naves of nine churches with St. Martin's patronage in the immediate vicinity. The nine churches are located in Dietenheim , Kellmünz an der Iller , Boos , Heimertingen , Steinheim , Memmingen , Tannheim , Erolzheim and Kirchberg an der Iller . The course of the Iller coincides here with the fortification of the Danube-Iller-Rhein-Limes .
A nearly one kilometer long way of the cross with 14 stations, which ends with a holy grave - wayside shrine , connects it with the parish church St. Martinus of the place. South, East and West, the plant is of a former castle and moat enclosed. The Chapel Hill was in 1842 cadastral officially in honor of Baroness Amalia von Bernhard in Frohberg renamed. Mrs. von Bernhard was a born Countess von Froberg called Montjoye , which freely translated means Froher Berg . The chapel is part of the Upper Swabian Pilgrimage Route, which includes over 100 stations.
From 2007 to 2009 the entire pilgrimage site was extensively renovated and refurbished. The construction work cost a total of 300,000 euros. Grants from the Diocese of Rottenburg and the State of Baden-Württemberg, and one third each of voluntary donations.
On August 30, 2009, Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Maria Renz blessed the chapel again as part of a festive service. On April 16, 2011, Bishop Gebhard Fürst celebrated a service in the mountain chapel as part of the opening of the Martinusweg in the diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart .
Chapel, burial place and hermitage
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The current building complex dates from 1670 and has neither a pulpit nor a gallery and only a small one-manual makeshift organ without a pedal . The image of grace stolen in 1935 was replaced in the 1960s by a replica of the larger than life Pietà from the Ursuline monastery in Erfurt . The central ceiling fresco comes from the Dietenheim painter Jakob Speth in the style of the Nazarenes and depicts the coronation of Mary .
In 1843 a burial place for the ennobled von Bernhard family was added to the chapel in a north-south direction. The copper-coated entrance door to the burial chapel is inscribed on both sides with the Ave Maria . On the east wall of the burial place are the epitaphs of Heinrich Freiherr and Mathilde Freifrau von Bernhard, born in the burial place. Attached to Freiin von Kreusser. About a thousand gold stars are painted on the background of the blue painted and vaulted coffered ceiling. The burial place, which does not have a cellar, is furnished with pews. A two-meter-high Madonna and Child Carrara - marble by Joseph Otto Entres is placed in the right corner. In the left corner there is a late Gothic two-winged altar by an unknown Ulm master.
The Hermitage has been converted into a pilgrimage home that is open every afternoon from Wednesday. The facility has an externally accessible toilet that is always open and connected to the public sewer system.
Bells
The chapel has three bells that were bought in 1952. They say in capital letters, starting with the largest bell:
- Frohbergglöcklein cheers loudly: Come, God's bride will be crowned.
- Little sacrificial bell invites you to be one with her at the cross.
- The little evening bell rings silently. Virgo wants to greet everything.
Since the new blessing of the complex on August 30, 2009, the bells have rung three times a day for the Angelus prayer .
literature
- Dehio , Baden-Württemberg II. The administrative districts of Freiburg and Tübingen. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1997, page 180
- Festschrift Freunde der Bergkapelle eV on the new blessing of Our Lady on the Frohberg in Erolzheim on August 30, 2009
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung: "Maria" is hiding "in the bush" from November 22, 2008, accessed on April 5, 2011
- ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung : There is reason to celebrate on the Frohberg from August 22, 2009, accessed on January 7, 2010
Coordinates: 48 ° 5 ′ 14.8 " N , 10 ° 4 ′ 6.8" E