Kalvarienberg (Bidingen)
The Kalvarienberg in Bidingen is a way of the cross in the hamlet of Weiler , south of the main town in the municipality of the same name in Bidingen in the Swabian district of Ostallgäu . Passion plays were also held on Kalvarienberg until 1725, when they were banned by the then bishop.
The Way of the Cross was built in 1730 and is equipped with 14 illustrated stations, the 14th station being in a crypt on the north side of the burial chapel. The crypt was built as a kind of stalactite cave. The pictures of the Way of the Cross were last renewed in 1993 because the previous ones were badly weathered. At the foot of the Way of the Cross you can see a Mount of Olives chapel from 1894.
Today's burial chapel on the mountain, like the Way of the Cross, dates from 1730 and was built by master builder Johann Georg Fischer from Marktoberdorf after a wooden chapel from 1670 in the same place became dilapidated. The current round building of the chapel is modeled on the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem . The ceiling painting comes from the church painter Franz Xaver Bernhard from 1768. The Pieta and the grave Christ in the crypt come from the neo-Gothic period, when the grave chapel was adapted to the taste of the time. The popular altar was replaced during the last renovation between 1969 and 1974.
Coordinates: 47 ° 49 ′ 1.5 ″ N , 10 ° 43 ′ 59.5 ″ E