Bullauer picture
The so-called Bullauer image is a shrine of sandstone close Bullau , a district of the town Erbach in Odenwald . It dates from the second half of the 16th century and is a registered cultural monument of the Hessian State Monuments Office , object no .: 11048.
The wayside shrine consists of two parts, a lower base part and an upper base part with an attachment. The top is worked as a pentagonal niche in the shape of a house. It is one of a series of wayside shrines in the Odenwald and on Bergstrasse that are worked in this way, for example the red picture in Michelbuch , the Olfen picture in Olfen or the Eulbach picture . The year 1561 is on the upper part of the base. The wayside shrine is about 1.50 meters high.
This dating makes the picture one of the oldest wayside shrines in the Odenwald. Only the pictures in Ziegelhausen (1478), Breitenbach (1483), the Eulbacher picture (1513), the Rote Bild (1524) and the second Breitenbacher picture from 1551 are older.
The late construction of 1561 is a mystery. Wayside shrines are in the Roman Catholic tradition. However, the county of Erbach had finally become evangelical under Count Eberhard XIV at the latest in 1540 . It is also unclear what was originally in the niche. The image of Mary in it today is a modern work.
It is not entirely certain whether the wayside shrine is on one of the three pilgrimage routes that once ran through the Odenwald. In this case it may have been the one that led from Hirschhorn to Würzberg and further east, the most famous of the three pilgrimage routes.
A special feature of the picture was that it had been surrounded by a mighty beech for centuries and that it had grown around the picture. The trunk of the tree supported the wayside shrine, which leaned to the left over time and as the tree grew. This had two consequences: on the one hand, the wayside shrine was supported, but the sandstone crumbled due to the moisture in the tree in the lower base area.
In 2012 the beech had to be cut for safety reasons due to fungal attack. In the process, presumably due to the vibrations during the work, the wayside shrine fell over and the lower part of the base broke irretrievably. The upper part with the niche was only slightly damaged. The landowners, the Counts of Erbach-Fürstenau, initially had the picture temporarily stored in Bullau. Then it was brought to the workshop of a Steinbach master sculptor, in the vicinity of the ancestral home of the Counts of Erbach-Fürstenau, Fürstenau Castle . He made a new base and restored the upper part. In November 2013, the wayside shrine was put back in its old place without prior notice.
literature
- Friedrich Mössinger: wayside shrines in the Odenwald , extended special print from “Die Starkenburg”, sheets for local history and home care, booklets 28 and 29, Heppenheim 1962
- Friedrich Höreth: History and stories from the Odenwald , Volume 1, published by the district committee of the Odenwaldkreis, 2nd edition, Erbach 1983
- Peter Weber: From the history of the city and county of Erbach , Volume 2, published by the Historical Association for the district town and former county of Erbach, Erbach 1989
Web links
- State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (Ed.): 'Bullauer Bild' In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
- Article on the reconstruction from the "Odenwälder Echo", with a picture in the current state.
- Picture on fotocommunity.de in the old condition.
Individual evidence
- ^ Mössinger: wayside shrines in the Odenwald , p. 23.
- ^ Mössinger: wayside shrines in the Odenwald , p. 26.
- ^ Mössinger: wayside shrines in the Odenwald , p. 13.
- ^ Mössinger: wayside shrines in the Odenwald , p. 13.
- ^ Weber: From the history of the city and county of Erbach , p. 56.
- ↑ Höreth: History and stories from the Odenwald , pp. 142/143.
- ^ Mössinger: wayside shrines in the Odenwald , p. 13.
- ↑ Höreth: History and stories from the Odenwald , p. 143.
- ↑ Odenwälder Echo, Saturday, November 16, 2013, p. 13.
- ↑ Odenwälder Echo, Saturday, November 16, 2013, p. 13.
Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '25.7 " N , 9 ° 2' 30.1" E