Way of the Cross (Bad Kissingen)

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The Way of the Cross Bad Kissingen is located on the Stationsberg in the Bavarian spa town of Bad Kissingen in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen . The Way of the Cross is one of the Bad Kissingen architectural monuments and is registered under the number D-6-72-114-124 in the Bavarian Monument List .

history

Crucifixion group of today's Stationsberg- Kreuzweg.
14th station of today's Stationsberg- Kreuzweg with Weidner's alleged self-portrait.

The original Way of the Cross, donated by Andreas Eisfelder, was approved by “Das Hohe Ordinariat” in 1758 ; the stations originally began on the "Mount of Olives" , which - at that time still outside the city - was located at what is now Bad Kissinger's spa theater . On September 14th, the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross , of the year 1758, the Way of the Cross was consecrated by the Hammelburg Franciscans in a procession. According to the years that are noted on the inscriptions on the back of the stations, these were created in the years 1753 and 1756. An inscription on the middle cross of the crucifixion group names the founder Johann Georg Lohr, his wife Margareta and their sons Johannes and Valtin Lohr as well as the year 1751.

In the beginning there were two processions on the Way of the Cross, one of which carried a particle of the Cross with it. The procession was designed with pictures of the Passion as well as lively representations in which Kissing citizens took on the roles of those involved in the Passion. In 1757, the Bavarian government from Kissinger pastor Molitor urged to renounce thus performed Calvary processions, "would serve as selbige only for curiosity and laughter, but by no means to awaken a sincere devotion and the true construction" . Despite the objection from Pastor Molitor to Würzburg Prince-Bishop Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim that the procession "served to build up the people who came frequently and should not be enough to laugh at some lazy people," the government stuck to its demand.

The additional procession was donated by Georg Renninger on March 3, 1795, so that two groups of believers could celebrate Good Friday on Stationsberg . The date for the second procession saw George Renninger "either feast of pain or Monday or Tuesday in Holy Week" in front, "because during Lent, a greater devotion sets and is visited Calvary often" .

As the Beautification Association wrote to the church administration in 1883, "it should be considered whether the Mount of Olives at the intersection of two streets could not be erected somewhere in the free space by the new church." The Bad Kissingen dean Andreas Dietz declined , since the Way of the Cross begins with the “Mount of Olives” and the “Mount of Olives” cannot be moved because of its poor structural condition. The stations were then placed behind the newly built Herz-Jesu parish church .

During the 19th century the stations of the cross fell into disrepair. This was due to the fact that the processions aroused less and less interest from the citizens, who also unloaded their wood in front of the stations, so "that one can hardly come to them when visiting ." As a result, the stations were sold to today's Bad Kissingen district of Poppenroth in 1892 and now form the Way of the Cross in Poppenroth next to the town's cemetery. The sculptor Valentin Weidner was commissioned to "artistically execute" a new way of the cross for Bad Kissingen . According to one theory, Valentin Weidner is said to have portrayed himself in the 14th station in the person of Nicodemus or Joseph of Arimathäa , but the age of both portrayed speaks against this theory, since Weidner was only 45 years old when the Way of the Cross was created.

During a guided tour organized by Albert Plohnke , a citizen of Bad Kissingen, in 2003, it was noticed that Jesus Christ was moving away from Golgotha ​​on some stations, i.e. walking in the wrong direction. District home keeper Werner Eberth explained this phenomenon with a renovation of the Way of the Cross after the Second World War , during which the stations, which were originally distributed on both sides of the path, were relocated to a single side.

literature

  • Elisabeth Keller: Die Flurdenkmale im Landkreis Bad Kissingen , Volume 1, self-published by the Landkreis Bad Kissingen, 1978, pp. 60–62
  • The station mountain and "The mountain of olives outside the city" , in: Franz Warmuth: 100 years of the Herz Jesu parish Bad Kissingen - contribution to the history of the parish Bad Kissingen. Bad Kissingen 1984, pp. 83-86
  • Denis André Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: City of Bad Kissingen (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI.75 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87490-577-2 .
  • Cross-ways ... - From Stationsberg to Poppenroth , in: Peter Ziegler: Celebrities on promenade paths - Emperors, kings, artists, spa guests in Bad Kissingen , Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2004, ISBN 3-87717-809-X , p. 179 -184

Web links

Commons : Stations of the Cross in Bad Kissingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Mar. 28 November 1698 died 7. 1759: baptismal 1658-1820 - Pfarrarchiv Bad Kissingen: icefields, Andrew, was born.
  2. Heimattreue , No. 85, Kissingen 1938
  3. ^ Parish archives Bad Kissingen - Church bill 1784
  4. ^ Parish archives Bad Kissingen - pilgrimages and processions
  5. Denis A. Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: Monuments in Bavaria - City of Bad Kissingen , Edition Lipp (1998), p. 148
  6. The Feast of Mary in Sorrows was once celebrated on the Friday after Passion Sunday
  7. a b parish archives - pilgrimages, processions
  8. ^ A b parish archive - stations, Mount of Olives
  9. ^ Parish archives Bad Kissingen - note 88, meeting on July 29, 1894
  10. ^ Werner Eberth : Valentin Weidner. In: "Kissinger Hefte", Volume 1, Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 1992
  11. "Jesus walks" downhill "- Way of the Cross: A blind man discovers mistakes" - "Saale-Zeitung" of April 19, 2003

Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 38 ″  N , 10 ° 5 ′ 16 ″  E