Svatá Hora monastery
The Svatá Hora Monastery (German: Holy Mountain Monastery ) is a pilgrimage site located in the Okres Příbram in the Czech Republic .
history
A Lady Chapel has been located there since the 13th century, and in 1348 it received the image of the Virgin Mary from Prague Archbishop Ernst von Pardubitz , which is still venerated today . This place has been an important place of pilgrimage near Příbram since the 17th century . The complex with cloisters, chapels and gates around the Church of the Assumption of Mary was built between 1658 and 1709.
The church and the cloister of the pilgrimage church were designed by Carlo Lurago and Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer . The construction plans came from the architects Lurago, Giovanni Domenico Orsi de Orsini and Paul Ignaz Bayer . Giovanni Battista Passerini senior, master stonemason and employee of Lurago, built the grand staircase in front of the chapel in 1673, designed the facade and drew altar designs. The plastic jewelry in the cloister comes from Johann Brokoff . In the vicinity of the church there is a former Jesuit residence in the baroque style . The richly furnished church rooms offer beautiful stucco work as well as a gilded altar with a silver shrine and a Gothic statue of the Madonna and Child.
Redemptorists had been taking care of the pilgrimage since 1861 , after Jesuits and Prague priests had previously been responsible for pastoral care. The monastery was closed on April 13, 1950 and only reopened 40 years later, on March 1, 1990. Since then there have been regular pilgrimages again. As before the Second World War, pilgrims also came to this place from Germany. Most of the German pilgrims now travel by bus. The tradition of foot pilgrimages, as they have been cultivated for centuries in the Bavarian Forest, has been resumed since 2007 in the form of pilgrims from Kreuzberg near Freyung to the Svatá Hora monastery, which are carried out in May and September. Section 6 of the Via Nova pilgrimage route , which branches off the existing routes in Vilshofen on the Danube , has also been on this route since 2010 .
The coronation pilgrimage on the third Sunday after Pentecost is the most important pilgrimage. On this day, the coronation of the Virgin Mary statue on June 22, 1732, after papal permission by Clement XII. thought. Another important pilgrimage date is the Sunday following the Assumption of Mary .
The portal after the restoration (2016)
Pilgrimage church
Stairway to the pilgrimage church
The monastery above the city
literature
- Bohuslav Balbín : Diva S. Monti. Holy mountain near Příbram. Cloth shearers, Prague 1668.
Web links
- Website of the monastery (Czech and German)
Coordinates: 49 ° 41 ′ 6 " N , 14 ° 1 ′ 3.3" E