Church of the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar (Schwanebeck)

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The Church of the Most Holy Altar Sacrament is a Catholic parish and pilgrimage church in Schwanebeck in Saxony-Anhalt . It is located south of Kapellenstrasse and belongs to the parish of St. Benedikt with its seat on the Huysburg .

history

Church and outbuildings, restaurant on the left, school building on the right

The Schwanebeck pilgrimage dates back to 1334. According to tradition, the golden ciborium with the consecrated hosts was stolen from the tabernacle in the parish church of St. Johannis in Büblingen (today part of Schwanebeck) . The thief buried the vessel and its contents in the earth. The next day a farmer found the sacred treasure, marked the spot with a whip made of limewood and fetched the pastor. In the meantime, the whip stick began to turn out and green - today's pilgrimage linden tree . The tree and the Herrgottskapelle , which was built by Bishop Albrecht von Halberstadt in the same year , became a pilgrimage destination .

The pilgrimage lasted until the secularization of the Halberstadt Burchardi monastery in 1809. In the course of secularization, a merchant named Grützemacher acquired the chapel in 1810, who rededicated the surrounding farm buildings into a brewery and livestock stables (oxen and sheep). In 1898, the then owner, the economist Fink, sold the chapel to the Catholic Church, which expanded the chapel as a church. The inauguration took place on September 11, 1899.

In 1924 the tradition was resumed. The annual pilgrimage day is a Sunday after the feast of Corpus Christi . The former sheepfold was rebuilt; In 1998 a Catholic private school was opened on the premises. The church and ancillary buildings were later expanded to include a small event stage.

In 2009 the parish of Schwanebeck was dissolved and the new parish of St. Benedikt was founded, which in addition to the church in Schwanebeck also includes the churches in Badersleben , Eilenstedt (meanwhile profaned ) and on the Huysburg .

Architecture and equipment

Church view

The white plastered church has a rectangular floor plan and is crowned by a roof turret. The narrow windows have an ogival shape. The furnishings are modern except for a wooden altarpiece from the 18th century and a carved Vesper picture , which is dated to the middle of the 15th century.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uwe Kühn, Stefan Kühn, Bernd Ullrich, Trees that Tell Stories , BLV Buchverlag Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-8354-0442-7 , page 108

Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′ 44.3 "  N , 11 ° 7 ′ 43.1"  E