Heiligenblut (gap)

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Heiligenblut
City gap
Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 35 ″  N , 10 ° 56 ′ 24 ″  E
Height : 425 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 1  (Dec. 31, 2011)
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 91174
Area code : 09175
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New pilgrimage chapel Heiligenblut

Heiligenblut is a district of the town of Spalt in the district of Roth in Middle Franconia .

location

The wasteland is in the Franconian Lake District , about 600 meters from the north bank of the Brombach axis and can be reached from the neighboring Ottmannsberg . The place is in the Spalter hill country .

history

The pilgrimage, the only one of its kind in the diocese of Eichstätt , was originally based on a medieval legend about an alleged host sacrilege. According to Catholic legend, a poor day laborer is said to have stolen a consecrated host from his forehead during a famine . In 1444 the following is said to have happened in Heiligenblut: A rich Jew orders a poor wood chopper with many hungry children to steal hosts from the church in the village forehead. The Jew stabs the hosts, which promptly begin to bleed. The matter is exposed, the poor Christian wood chopper is beheaded, but the Jew converts to Christianity. Seconds before he is to be baptized, lightning strikes the Spalter church and kills the Jew. This Catholic legend is related to the expulsion of the Jewish population from the nearby town of Eichstätt. At the beginning of the 17th century, pilgrimages came from all over the region. The pilgrimage routes from Ellingen and Stopfenheim met in Ramsberg and then led through the Brombachtal together .

From 1703 Franciscan Brothers ( recollects ) took care of the pilgrimage. The monastery was founded by Father Pius Schreiber from the Franciscan monastery Schillingsfürst and the Thuringian Franciscan Province ( Thuringia ). First a mission post ( hospice ), from 1742 a convent , it was dissolved again in 1808 in the course of secularization . The monastery church and the other buildings were demolished in 1817/1818.

Until the regional reform , Heiligenblut was part of the community of Enderndorf am See in the former district of Gunzenhausen . On July 1, 1972, Enderndorf and its districts were incorporated into Spalt and added to the district of Roth.

Pilgrimage

According to a Catholic legend, an alleged Jewish host sacrilege and miraculous properties were ascribed to him. Heiligenblut existed until the beginning of the 19th century in the form of a pilgrimage church with a Franciscan monastery . The Christian tradition of pilgrimage continued up to this time . In 1953 the pastor Ludwig Waldmüller had another chapel built. Since 1980 there has been a tradition of pilgrimage again due to an initiative of the Kolping Family from Spalt. In 2005 the pilgrimage was revived through an initiative of the Eichstätter cathedral vicar Reinhard Kurzinger and the »Working Group Tourism Pastoral«.

Current condition

Chapel altarpiece

In 1953 another chapel was built in Heiligenblut. Today the new pilgrimage site Heiligenblut consists of a farm and a chapel , which is looked after by the Kolping family from Spalt. Since the 1980s, it has been rolling again - initially on the initiative of the Spalter Kolping Family.

In 2005, the Pastoral Tourism Working Group of the Eichstätt diocese carried out a pilgrimage in the form of a sea pilgrimage for the first time, as the old footpath through the Great Brombachsee had been flooded. The controversial pilgrimage, which was resumed, had an enlightening media response: On the website of the diocese of Eichstätt, Vicar Reinhard Kurzinger and the Pastoral Tourism Working Group invited to a special kind of pilgrimage . A ship pilgrimage will take place on October 7th (2005) from Ramsberg over the Brombachsee to Heiligenblut, in order to tie in with the times when the believers made pilgrimages with dry feet. However, the history of the origins of Heiligenblut has been shamefacedly robbed of its anti-Judaistic background. There, during a famine, only a poor day laborer stole wafers; all that remains is Christian mouth robbery. In fact, the hostile history of Heiligenblut is well known, at least in the Spalter region. Because a board of the tourism association provides factual information on site about its history. And the popular homeland books about Ramsberg or the volume Das Land am Brombach , published in 2002, also refer to the Jewish sacrifice in Heiligenblut.

literature

Web links

Commons : Heiligenblut  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.grossweingarten.de/einwohnerzahlen.html
  2. ↑ Heiligenblut in the Bavaria Atlas
  3. ↑ a b Sunday paper
  4. ↑ pilgrimage to Heiligenblut; by Elisa Makowski and Peter Zinke