Hardensettener Kreuzweg
The Hardensettener Kreuzweg is a way of the cross , also popularly known as the Way of the Cross on the Kalvarienberg , in Hardensetten , a district of Bad Laer . It is of supraregional importance; On Christian holidays, over 1000 visitors visit the Way of the Cross for prayer and reflection.
location
The Hardensettener Kreuzweg is located on Glandorfer Straße, the road that leads from Bad Laer to Glandorf , at the highest point, the Kalvarienberg, in Bad Laer in the district of Hardensetten , easily recognizable by a linden tree, the so-called Prediger-Linde , which on the southern roadside stands.
history
According to tradition, there was a pagan court and cult site on the Hardensetten Calvary. Iroschottische monks built a chapel on this historic site, which was destroyed and rebuilt several times over the years. As early as the 13th century, the parishes of Laer and Glandorf held services there together, which was documented in the Peace of Westphalia . In 1802 the chapel was an "annoying traffic obstacle" in the way and was finally demolished. In 1829 the farmer Buschkotte had a cross, the so-called Buschkotten Krüß , erected at the point of the path . It is there that his son Heinrich, who is ill with facial rose and after having completed the strenuous Telgter pilgrimage , fell asleep tired and fully recovered. The current way of the cross goes back to an initiative of the school vicar of the elementary school in Laer, Matthias Sommer , who went on free afternoons with his school class on the mountain in order to create the way of the cross himself. When he ran out of funds, he turned to his school children who had emigrated to America, who supported him with generous donations. In 1857 he inaugurated the Way of the Cross. The station pictures were initially made of wood. A Nazarene style Mount of Olives group was also added. This was protected by a neo-Gothic chapel in 1861 . In the same year the 14 stations of the cross made of Baumberger sandstone in the Nazarene style were erected to replace the wooden ones. They were created by the sculptor Jean Baptist Prang from Münster . In later times, plaques with the fourteen helpers in need were placed opposite the western stations of the cross , which have been on small pillars since February 26, 1994. In 1930 the Calvary Group was set up at the end of the Way of the Cross. In 2007, for the 150th anniversary, the Kalvarienberg and its groups underwent a thorough renovation; a memorial stone reminds of it.
description
The so-called Prediger-Linde stands south on Glandorfer Straße . Its crown was cut off so that a pulpit could be placed there. In front of it is the so-called Buschkotten Krüß . Opposite, on the right side, is the chapel with the Mount of Olives group. Then there is a 275 meter long, slightly rising cul-de-sac to the north. This is where the actual way of the cross begins. On the left are the Stations of the Cross and on the right the plaques of the Fourteen Holy Helpers . Finally, the Golgotha group forms the end .
Fourteen helpers
- St. EUSTACHIUS you wonderful example of Christian patience
- St. MARGARETHA you victorious martyr for Christ
- St. VITUS you example of chastity
- St. GEORGE you exemplary champion for the teaching of Jesus
- St. KATHARINA you wisest of the wise in the teaching of salvation
- St. CHRISTOPHORUS you mighty savior in danger
- St. ERASMUS you strong helper of the oppressed widows
- St. ACHATIUS you great devotee of the cross of Christ
- St. PANTALEON you convert to the true faith
- St. AEGIDIUS you despiser of temporal goods
- St. CYRIACUS you horror of evil spirits
- St. BARBARA you best comforter of the dying
- St. BLASIUS you wonderful doctor of the sick
- St. DIONYSIUS you glowing light of the believers
Image description of the Calvary
The Prediger-Linde on Glandorfer Strasse
Buschkotten Krüß on the Prediger-Linde with the epitaph:
Memorial stone for Matthias Sommer
The neo-Gothic chapel
The Mount of Olives group in the chapel:
The way up to Kalvarienberg, left the stations of the cross, right the 14 helpers in need
Golgotha group
Image description of the Way of the Cross
I. Station Jesus is sentenced to death on the cross
II. Station Jesus takes the cross on his shoulders
III. Station Jesus falls under the cross for the first time
IV. Station Jesus meets his mother with the cross
V. Station Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus carry the cross
VI. Station Veronica hands Jesus the handkerchief
VII. Station Jesus falls for the second time on the cross
VIII. Station Jesus comforts the weeping women
IX. Station Jesus falls under the cross for the third time
X. Station Jesus is stripped of his clothes a. Soaked in bile and vinegar
XI. Station Jesus is nailed to the cross.
XII. Station Jesus dies on the cross
XIII. Station The body of Jesus is taken from the cross
XIV. Station Jesus is placed in a new grave.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Osnabrücker Zeitung from April 22, 2015
- ↑ Bad Laer
- ↑ Osnabrücker Zeitung from April 22, 2015
- ↑ Osnabrück newspaper of August 12, 2011
- ↑ Stephan Niebruegge: Way of the Cross on Calvary: the Virgin Birth Bad Laer. In: kalare.de. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Osnabrücker Zeitung from April 22, 2015
- ↑ Jean Baptist Prang - House Dassel. In: hausdassel.de. April 20, 1978, accessed January 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Wanderer, if you are tired and weary, rest in this place. Look up to the one who suffered for you, then continue your journey. Anyone who repentantly looks up to the cross completes their résumé well.
- ^ In the gable: Maria, patroness of Bad Laer , Antonius, patron of Remsede and Leonhard, patron of the farmers
- ↑ Father, not mine, but your will be done, Luc XXII, 42 In pious memory, we give this image to the lovely community of Laer, which was our home. The Laeren children in America: Louisville, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Daiton, Charleston, Washington, Albani, Newjorck Remember us in prayer
literature
- Richard Sautmann, Die Bad Laer Geschichte, Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 2000, ISBN 3895343757
Web links
Coordinates: 52 ° 5 '36.5 " N , 8 ° 3' 8.8" E