Hilgenberg Chapel
The Hilgenberg Chapel of Our Lady is a pilgrimage chapel in Stadtlohn .
description
The chapel has a rectangular floor plan. On the front of the gable, next to the entrance, there is an outside pulpit for outdoor pilgrimage services. The gable roof is covered with black slate . The bell is hung in a roof turret. Inside the altar is an attachment with two rows of medallions. The right shows the laws of the painful, the left those of the glorious rosary , culminating in the coronation of Mary . The medallions surround the miraculous image . The coffered ceiling was created during the restoration of the chapel around 1885.
history
The Hilgenberg Chapel was built on a Late Bronze Age or Young Iron Age burial ground , which suggests that this place was already of religious importance at that time. The first written reference dates from 1525. In 1616, the Easter Tuesday procession from the parish church to the chapel is mentioned. After his victory over the mad Christian in the battle of Stadtlohn in 1623, Johann T'Serclaes von Tilly is said to have prayed in the Hilgenberg chapel. In 1695 the chapel was rebuilt. The order was placed by Prince-Bishop Christian von Plettenberg , whose coat of arms is placed in the middle of the gable wall. Since then , a procession has taken place every year on the feast of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary on July 2nd. Pilgrimages from neighboring towns have also been mentioned since 1717. Reports of miraculous healings in the years 1739–1749 and cattle epidemics in 1761 and 1779 made the influx of pilgrims grow rapidly. On the night of September 13-14, 1886, the Madonna picture was stolen. Only a small relief image in the apex of the portal arch still reminds of its appearance. After that the pilgrimage declined. In 1954, Bishop Michael Keller gave the city wages a new pilgrimage picture, the so-called Raesfeld Madonna from the 15th century, on permanent loan from the diocese of Münster .
literature
- Karl Hagemann: Schöne Kirchen im Münsterland , Münster 2001, ISBN 3-402-05170-2
Web links
- The pilgrimage chapel on the Hilgenberg in Stadtlohn ( Memento from August 15, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (kirchensite.de, September 23, 2010)
- Kirsten Kaiser : Where are you, Maria? , Information and art project on the stolen image of grace, Sculpture Biennale Münsterland 2005
Individual evidence
- ^ Procession to Hilgenberg , MünsterlandZeitung.de, June 24, 2007
Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′ 40.2 " N , 6 ° 55 ′ 50.2" E