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Klingenzell, view from the east

Klingenzell is a district of the municipality of Mammern , a political municipality in the Frauenfeld district of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland , and is located on the south bank of the Untersee .

church

Pilgrimage Church of the Seven Sorrows of Mary

The priory was founded in the Middle Ages by the Lords of Hohenklingen (with headquarters at Hohenklingen Castle ). The Klingenzell pilgrimage church ⊙ was consecrated to Our Lady of Sorrows in 1705 . The patronage is celebrated on the Friday after the 5th Sunday of Lent.

The parish is part of the Catholic pastoral care association Eschenz –Klingenzell – Mammern– Stein am Rhein .

A Way of the Cross with 12 stations was built below the Klingenzell chapel , which leads past a Marian grotto in the direction of Mammern. Processions take place twice a year from the Eschenz church to Klingenzell.

Surroundings

• About 800 meters west of the Sanctuary Klingenzell is located on a rocky outcrop above the submarine , the castle Freudenfels ⊙

• To the south-east of Klingenzell is a former Hochwacht ( 563  m above sea level ), which belonged to Hohenklingen Castle and served as border security and fire watch. In the 1930s, the artillery observation there was bunker A 5600 ⊙ the Swiss border fortification .

literature

• Alfons Raimann and Peter Erni: Klingenzell, Parish and Pilgrimage Church of Seven Pains of Mary. In: The art monuments of the canton of Thurgau, Volume VI: The district of Steckborn. (The Art Monuments of Switzerland, Volume 98). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2001, ISBN 3-906131-02-5 , pp. 212-217.

Web links

• Erich Trösch: Klingenzell. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Maria Sorrows Mother Klingenzell on the website of the cath. Pastoral Care Association St. Otmar
• Klingenzell pilgrimage chapel on the website of the municipality of Mammern

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alfons Raimann, Beatrice Sendner-Rieger: The parish and pilgrimage church of Klingenzell. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 580). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1995, ISBN 978-3-85782-580-4 .