Kranenburg cruise pilgrimage

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Kranenburg Cross
Kranenburg Cross
The new Heiligkreuzstock at the Reichswald. The church of Kranenburg can be seen in the background.
The new Heiligkreuzstock at the Reichswald. The church of Kranenburg can be seen in the background.
Cross costume 2007
Cross costume 2007

The focus of the Kranenburg pilgrimage to the Miraculous Cross is a simple wooden body.

history

According to legend, a shepherd from the Neuenhof near Kranenburg should have dropped a consecrated host into a tree in the Reichswald at Easter 1279 or 1280 ; When this tree was felled in 1308, the body was found and placed in the church of Kranenburg, where it quickly became the destination of numerous pilgrims . There is historical evidence of the veneration of the cross in Kranenburg since the end of the 14th century; It reached its peak in the first half of the 15th century, when the donations made it possible to build a large three-aisled church , to which the Martinsstift was moved from the village of Zyfflich in 1436 .

In the 16th century, the pilgrimage came to a standstill after Duke Wilhelm V had the cross brought to Klever Castle . In the early modern period, the Kranenburg pilgrimage was particularly attractive to Catholics from the Protestant-dominated Netherlands; this is how the story of the veneration of the cross in Kranenburg by the dean Johannes van Wanray, published in 1666, is written in Dutch.

Since the 19th century, the pilgrimage experienced a renewed boom; The highlights included the anniversaries of 1808 and 1908 and the years after the Second World War. In 2008 the parish of Kranenburg celebrated the 700th anniversary of the pilgrimage on the cruise.

The cross procession takes place annually on the first Sunday after the exaltation of the cross (September 14th).

literature

in order of appearance

  • Theodor Georgi: True and short story of the origin of the miraculous cross Cranenburg, together with the establishment and confirmation of the brotherhood of St. Cross there, as well as the rules and indulgences of this brotherhood, in memory of the centenary of the foundation of the same . JB Klein, Krefeld 1846 ( digitized version of the University and State Library in Düsseldorf ).
  • Friedrich Gorissen: Kranenburg. An old sanctuary of the Lower Rhine , Kranenburg 1950.
  • Franz Günter Aengenheyster: 675 years of the Kranenburg cruise pilgrimage. Parish - monastery - pilgrimage 1308–1983 . Kath. Pfarramt Kranenburg, Kranenburg 1983.
  • Heinrich Janssen : Pilgrimages on the Lower Rhine . In: Heinrich Janssen, Udo Grote (Hg :): Two millennia history of the church on the Lower Rhine . Dialogverlag, Münster 1998, ISBN 978-3-933144-02-7 , pp. 397-411, therein pp. 402-403: Kranenburger Kreuz .
  • Franz Günter Aengenheyster: Kranenburg pilgrimage site. The miraculous Holy Cross of Kranenburg . Kath. Pfarramt Kranenburg, Kranenburg 2006.
  • Association for homeland security (ed.): History in the tower. Catalog for the local history exhibition in the Mühlenturm Kranenburg , Kranenburg 2006.
  • Manuel Hagemann: On the early history of the veneration of the cross in Kranenburg. A contribution to the 700th pilgrimage anniversary . In: Calendar for the Klever Land 2008, pp. 82–89.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Heinrich Janssen: Pilgrimages on the Lower Rhine . In: Heinrich Janssen, Udo Grote (Hg :): Two millennia history of the church on the Lower Rhine . Dialogverlag, Münster 1998, pp. 402–403.
  2. ↑ Historia S. Crucis Cranenburgensis ofte Grondelicke beschrijvinge van't oude mirakeleuse Cruys-Beelt tot Cranenburch, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Freader.digitale-sammlungen.de%2Fresolve%2Fdisplay%2Fbsb10028299.html~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~ double-sided% 3D ~ LT% 3D ~ PUR% 3D

Web links

Commons : Kranenburger Kreuzwallfahrt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Kranenburger Kreuzwallfahrt  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

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