Cross dress
A cross dress or Kreuzumtracht derived from " cross wearing " a is prozessionales carrying around a miraculous image in the form of a cross through the streets of a place. The term occurs mostly in Westphalia and northern Germany. Sometimes cross costumes are also used as pilgrimages . Cross costumes take place on different dates, often on Good Friday but also around St. John's Day .
In Upper Bavaria and Austria, “cross costume” also refers to pilgrimages (e.g. at St. Peter's Cathedral in Salzburg) or the rural catchment area of a place of worship (e.g. in Prien am Chiemsee ).
history
The cross costume was introduced in Northern Germany during the Counter Reformation . In the diocese of Münster this happened in the early 17th century and then increasingly after the Thirty Years' War under Prince-Bishop Christoph Bernhard von Galen . In 1616 the first cross costume took place in Münster . Performers were students of the local Jesuit college. In the Archdiocese of Paderborn , the cross costume was introduced in the form of a procession to seven churches in the city, in the style of the Roman pilgrim churches .
List of cross costumes
- Wiedenbrücker cross costume
- Stromberg cross costume
- Menden cross costume
- Meppen cross costume
- Delbrücker Kreuztracht
- Kranenburg cruise pilgrimage
Cross costumes as catchment areas
Individual evidence
- ↑ University of Heidelberg
- ^ Franciscan Church - Salzburg | Euregio Salzburg. Retrieved April 21, 2018 .
- ^ Nathen-Berger, Ulrich et al .: Heimatbuch Prien a. Chiemsee . Ed .: Markt Prien a. Chiemsee. tape 3 . Prien am Chiemsee 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-044923-9 , p. 165 .