Augustinian monastery Fährbrück
The Augustinian monastery Fährbrück is a monastery in the municipality of Hausen near Würzburg and is located between Würzburg and Schweinfurt near the Gramschatzer Forest . The hamlet consists only of a farm, the Augustinian monastery, the cathedral "Mariae Himmelfahrt & St. Gregory the Great" and an inn, located near the federal highway 19 . The Franconian Marienweg runs through Fährbrück .
Muenster
The distinctive landmark of Fährbrück is the cathedral with its 58 meter high tower. Fährbrück is a shrine of Our Lady . The pilgrimage to the Mother of Mercy in Fährbrück has existed since the 14th century. Prince-Bishop Johann Gottfried von Guttenberg von Würzburg had the current sanctuary built, which was started in 1683 and completed in 1697. The builder was Antonio Petrini .
history
The origin and age of the pilgrimage church are not documented, but it can be assumed with a high degree of probability that the pilgrimage in Fährbrück has existed since around the 14th century. In 1164 a knight from Wickershausen donated his possessions in the area surrounding today's town of Hausen to the Benedictine monastery of Neustadt am Main . These were probably today's castle hill at Erbshausen-Sulzwiesen and the current Unterhof the former estate of the knight, because according to a document from 1414 Wickershausen was near Burggrumbach .
The Benedictines of Neustadt am Main built a chapel for their farm workers who worked on their and neighboring estates, which they presumably placed under the protection of the Mother of God in attachment to their mother monastery in Neustadt am Main. But from the beginning the real patron of the church was Pope Saint Gregory the Great , one of the greatest saints of the Benedictine order. The election of Saint Wolfgang as patron of Hausen and that of Saint Alban as patron of Erbshausen-Sulzwiesen also go back to the sons of Saint Benedict . St. Gregor and St. Wolfgang can still be seen on the west facade of the pilgrimage church.
The Holy Pope Gregory the Great (540–604) enjoyed great popularity and admiration for centuries alongside the Mother of God. After 250 years of residence, the Benedictines gave up their possessions in 1414 and left Fährbrück. Since the establishment of the parish of Bergtheim (1250), its Gregorius Church no longer had parish rights. Bergtheim was now the responsible parish for Hausen, Erbshausen-Sulzwiesen and Fährbrück. It stayed that way until 1613. In 1613, Hausen became an independent parish. Fährbrück and Erbshausen-Sulzwiesen were separated from Bergtheim and placed under the new parish of Hausen.
Despite sparse documents it is clear: From the 12th century to the Peasants' War (1525) Fährbrück was a much-visited place of pilgrimage. The Reformation (1517) and above all the Peasants' War dealt an almost fatal blow to the church and pilgrimage. The pilgrimage church and several houses were burned and totally destroyed. Prince-Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn (1573–1617), who pushed through the Counter-Reformation in his country, seems to have had little love for Fährbrück, because instead of rebuilding the destroyed pilgrimage church, he even had the remaining walls completely demolished and sent to Bergtheim and Jobsthal Drive repair of damaged parts of the building there.
He took possession of this Jobsthal estate near Hausen in 1580 and left it to the Juliusspital Würzburg for usufruct . So he had the buildings and the Jobsthal Church, which was consecrated to Saint Jodokus , repaired with the ruins and remains of the Fährbrück pilgrimage church. This gave the impression that Julius Echter intended to move the pilgrimage from Fährbrück to Jobsthal. Pilgrimages without a pilgrimage church are attested from 1525 to 1651. These numerous pilgrimages gave rise to the idea of rebuilding a little church on the old site.
The foundation walls were already in place and the building materials were brought in when the invasion of Sweden in October of the same year suddenly put an end to the company. After the expulsion of the Swedes in 1635, the new building was started again, but the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) caused all plans to fail again. It was not until 1648 that building could be built undisturbed. A new pilgrimage chapel built entirely of wood was built by 1651. 3000 to 4000 believers made a pilgrimage to Fährbrück at the following Marian festivals. As early as 1653, after two years, the new church had to be doubled. On October 1, 1656, the extension was solemnly consecrated by the Würzburg auxiliary bishop Melchior Söllner . The official cellar Johann Bartholomäus Heinrich von Arnstein earned the greatest credit for the new (1651) and extension (1653) . There is still a donated goblet with the engraved inscription "Joh. Barth. Heinrich, Keller zu Arnstein 1666".
This new church experienced such an onslaught in the second half of the 17th century that Prince-Bishop Johann Gottfried von Guttenberg (1684–1698) was able to report to Rome with great joy: "The Fährbrück pilgrimage takes the third of all places of grace in the prince-bishopric, the Marian pilgrimages but the second rank "(that means: after the Würzburger Käppele ).
In 1843 the Catholic men's association St. Hubertus Fährbrück in the Gramschatzer Forest was founded by hunters and in 1853 subordinated to Our Lady. The association has around 3000 members and is committed to social help (kindergarten, ...), among other things.
In 1867 the Redemptorists founded the Fährbrück monastery, but were soon expelled from there as a result of the culture war . Augustinians took over the monastery in 1880.
On March 1st, 1976 the parish association Fährbrück was founded. A year earlier, the pastors had already discussed the official establishment of the Fährbrück parish association with all members of the parish councils and church administrations in Fährbrück, Hausen, Erbshausen-Sulzwiesen , Gramschatz , Opferbaum, Rieden, Hilpertshausen and Rupprechtshausen. "The task of a parish association is to adapt pastoral care to the new living spaces of our society and to contribute to the vitalization of the parishes through impulses and subsidiary help. This is done through joint planning and cooperative implementation of pastoral care" (Framework Regulations for Parish Associations, Würzburger Diözesanblatt, March 18th 1974). The parish association Fährbrück offers seminars on faith, communion and confirmation preparation and is responsible for the parish letter "Brücke", which appears quarterly in the parishes. The parish association also organizes, among other things, the procession, festivals, joint pilgrimages and the cleaning service.
The Fährbrück pilgrimage church was completely renovated in 2002 and has shone in new splendor ever since.
Monastery study
The monastery took part in the monastery study . According to the results, nuns and women of the general population live almost equally long, closely followed by monks , who have an average life expectancy of one to two years shorter than both groups of women. The men of the general population, who live an average of six years shorter than nuns and women of the general population and up to four and a half years shorter than monks, are clearly lagging behind.
organ
The late romantic organ by Martin Joseph Schlimbach (Würzburg) was installed in 1900 and has 17 registers and three paddocks .
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Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P. Mechanical cone shop.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marc Luy : Why women live longer . Findings from a comparison of the monastery and general population. In: Materials on Population Science . No. 106 . Federal Institute for Population Research , 2002, ISSN 0178-918X , DNB 965668789 ( bib-demografie.de [PDF; 1.5 MB ; accessed on December 6, 2015] Zugl. Diploma thesis 1998). online, PDF; 1.5 MB ( Memento of the original dated December 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Marc Luy in: Hella Ehlers, Heike Kahlert , Gabriele Linke, Dorit Raffel, Beate Rudlof, Heike Trappe (eds.): Gender difference - and no end? Social sciences and humanities contributions to gender research . 1st edition. tape 8 . LIT Verlag, Berlin / Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-8258-1647-6 , 10 years monastery study - knowledge gained and open questions about the causes of the different life expectancy of women and men, p. 251–273 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ http://www.wuerzburgwiki.de/wiki/Martin_Joseph_Schlimbach
- ↑ http://www.orgelklasse.de/orgeln/fahrbruck
- ↑ http://www.orgelbau-mann.de/de/faehrbrueck-1992
Web links
- Augustinians: Fährbrück Monastery
- Pilgrimage Church Fährbrück: Internet presence
Coordinates: 49 ° 55 ′ 4 " N , 10 ° 2 ′ 42" E