Good Friday procession (Lohr)
The Good Friday procession in Lohr am Main in Lower Franconia is the oldest still cultivated in Germany and attracts thousands of visitors every year.
Thirteen life-size figures depicting the Passion of Christ are carried on the morning of Good Friday from the church square in front of St. Michael along a circular path that goes over the Große Kirchgasse, Lohrtorstraße, Seeweg, Fischergasse, Grabenstraße, Anlagenstraße, Alfred- Stumpf-Strasse and the main street runs back to the church square. The procession has been silent since 1960, accompanied only by bangs and the two participating bands.
The Lohr Good Friday procession emerged from what was originally a much larger baroque procession with pictures , which was probably created in the years after the Thirty Years' War . The oldest recorded mention in the church accounts of the parish of St. Michael comes from the year 1656.
Processional order
The figures are worn by members of the various craftsmen's guilds, and the parents of participating children also belong to the respective professions. The processional order:
- Acolytes with cross and dark banners
- Lohr city chapel
- Sign holders and guild poles
- Figure: Holy Communion (Büttner guild, brewing and hospitality industry)
- Figure: Christ on the Mount of Olives (carpenter, glazier and turner's guild, model carpenter)
- Figure: the capture (Wagner, blacksmith and locksmith guilds, metal and iron workers)
- Figure: the mockery of Jesus (cutlery, Seiler- and Haefner guild, watchmakers, precision mechanics, electricians, medical professions)
- Figure: the flagellation of Christ (shoemaker and saddler guild, upholsterer, interior designer, tiler and Kolping family)
- Figure: Ecce homo (butcher's guild, food shops)
- Figure: Cross bearer (gardener, farmers, fruit and vegetable trade, forester, forest worker)
- Figure: Jesus is robbed of his clothes (tailors' guild, clothing industry, textile trade)
- Figure: The five-wound cross (construction, bricklayers, carpenters, painters, whitewashers, plumber and roofers' guilds)
- Figure: the cross of our time ( KAB , DPSG )
- Figure: Pietà (girl)
- Figure: the holy grave (baker's and confectioner's guild, retail)
- Figure: the sign of Jonah - sign of the resurrection (fire department)
- student
- Chapel from Wombach
- Clergy and elected officials
- local community
literature
- Karl Anderlohr, Förderkreis Lohrer Good Friday Procession eV: The Lohrer Good Friday Procession . G-Medien GmbH, 2012-2074 pages, ISBN 978-3-944413-07-5 .
Web links
- Good Friday procession homepage , accessed on April 25, 2015
- Report in "Neues Deutschland" on March 23, 2008
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Passion of Christ in Lohr am Main ( Memento from March 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on Bayerischer Rundfunk