Maria Birnbaum Monastery

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Maria Birnbaum Monastery (view from the south)

The Maria Birnbaum monastery is located on the Ecknach river south of Sielenbach in the historic Wittelsbacher Land on the road to Adelzhausen in the Aichach-Friedberg district ( Bavaria ). The monastery is located on 7-Klöster-Weg , which connects 7 former or existing monasteries.

history

The baroque Maria Birnbaum church was built between 1661 and 1668 by Constantin Pader on behalf of Philipp Jakob von Kaltenthal, the Commander of the Teutonic Order in the neighboring town of Blumenthal . The pilgrimage church “Our Lady in the Pear Tree” was consecrated to the Mother of God with the Seven Sorrows . The first domed church north of the Alps is reminiscent of Byzantine buildings, but Italian influences played a major role in Maria Birnbaum's construction.

In 1632, Swedish soldiers mutilated a picture of the Virgin Mary that had been placed nearby and threw it into a pond. A village shepherd from Sielenbach found it and placed it in a hollow pear tree . In 1659/60 miraculous healings took place there and the pilgrimage began. Then the church was built around the pear tree, which died in 1671. The miraculous image is located on the high altar , in a cavity in the tree trunk. The trunk can be seen behind the altar.

The Capuchins lived in the monastery from 1867/68 . In 1998 the Teutonic Order took over the pilgrimage church again. He renovated the convent building and built a pilgrimage restaurant and a monastery shop to revive the pilgrimage. In 2001 the novitiate of the German Brethren Province was moved to Maria Birnbaum.

Blue waistband

The blue covenant is the community ( mass covenant ) of the farmers and their descendants, which the Maria Birnbaum church saved from demolition and renovated from 1865 to 1868. The blue coat with belt and white collar is the symbol for the union, which has only existed in the parish of Sielenbach for almost 150 years and has 30 men. One member keeps the blue coat for life and is buried in it. The alliance goes back to Mathias Asum from Lichtenberg (Markt Altomünster ) and his friend Mathias Asam from Tödtenried (municipality of Sielenbach). The two farmers spoke successfully to the Archbishop of Munich-Freising, Gregor von Scherr , against the demolition of the dilapidated pilgrimage church. Asum sacrificed his property and the pilgrimage church was renovated with the help of the rural population. In the sacristy there are still pictures of the two "church rescuers". - Festive appearances: Easter Monday (main festival), Shrove Tuesday , Assumption Day , 2nd Advent ( festival of the immaculate conception ).

7 Monasteries Way

The monastery is also a stop on the 7-Klöster-Weg , a cycle path that connects seven existing or former monasteries in the Dachauer and Wittelsbacher Lands . The aim of this 100 km long bike path is to bring the monasteries back to consciousness and make them tangible. The seven monasteries: Monastery Schönbrunn in Röhrmoos , Monastery Weichs , Kloster Indersdorf , Kloster Petersberg , altomünster abbey , Kloster Maria Birnbaum and monastery taxa in Odelzhausen .

panorama

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Pilgrimage church Maria Birnbaum in Sielenbach

literature

  • Bernhard Schütz: The pilgrimage church Maria Birnbaum and its two master builders . Frankfurt, Bern 1974, ISBN 3-261-00904-7 .
  • Bernhard Schütz: Maria Birnbaum. Pilgrimage church . Small art guide No. 401, 28 pages, 13th edition, Schnell & Steiner Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7954-4264-8 .

Web links

Commons : Kloster Maria Birnbaum  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The "7 Klöster Weg" in the Dachauer and Wittelsbacher Land ( Memento from 23 May 2015 in the Internet Archive ) - (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Odelzhausen , accessed on 23 May 2015)

Coordinates: 48 ° 23 '36.8 "  N , 11 ° 9' 44.8"  E