Lüfthildis

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Lüfthildis (also Liuthildis von Bonn) is a local Rhenish saint who is venerated above all in the small town Lüftelberg (city of Meckenheim ) - previously Berg - named after her . There is a pilgrimage to her grave in the Romanesque St. Petrus Church (Lüfthildis second patronage). Your tombstone is a simple sintered lime slab from the Eifel aqueduct .

There are no secured life data. She is said to have lived in the time of Charlemagne .

In 1623 their cult was revived by the Archbishop of Cologne, Ferdinand von Wittelsbach .

Lüfthildis reminds in vita and representation of the holy Elisabeth of Thuringia . It is represented with a spindle as an attribute and is said to heal ear diseases and drive away evil spirits.

Adoration

Peace stele at the Kottenforst

Her feast day is January 23rd (Winterlüfthildis). The octave with spindle blessing takes place from June 1st to 8th. Several churches and chapels are dedicated to her in the vicinity of Lüftelberg, see Lüfthildiskirche .

Since 1981, a theater group has been named after Lüfthildis, which has performed modern mystery plays around Corpus Christi in the Lüfthildiskirche.

In May 2020 the Catholic parish of St. Petrus Lüftelberg had a peace stele erected on the edge of the Kottenforst forest , which is also called the Lüfthildis wayside shrine . It is not far from the Kottenforst train station and was created by the Königswinter stonemason Martin Thiebes. The inscription reads “Go and bring peace”.

literature

  • Magnificent burial place of the holy virgin Lüftildis: or description of the life of this miraculous patron saint, whose grave in the middle of the parish church of Lüftelberg was solemnly raised by the most blessed Hereditary Bishop Ferdinand for greater veneration in 1623. In addition to morning, evening, mass, confession and Communion prayers, as well as devotional exercises in prayers and songs for the special veneration of the Blessed Virgin Lüftildis. For the good of the church. Kupferberg, Mainz 1845 ( digitized version ).
  • Brotherhood devotion to the veneration of St. Lüftildis which is held every 1st Sunday of the quarter in the afternoon in the parish church in Lüftelberg. Gehly, Cologne 1853 ( digitized version ).
  • Magdalene Frank: The popular saint Lüfthildis von Lüftelberg and her attributes in legend, cult and custom. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1959. (not viewed)
  • Wilhelm Hay: St. Lüfthildis. A saint of our homeland. In: Paulinus Calendar 1960. pp. 65–70 (not viewed)
  • Stephanus Hilpisch : Sankt Lüfthildis. In: Eifel calendar. Born 1926, p. 30 ff. (Not viewed)

Web links

Commons : Lüfthildis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lüfthildis wayside shrine by Christoph Holzapfel for the Catholic parish of St. Petrus Lüftelberg in the parish community of Meckenheim
personal data
SURNAME Lüfthildis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liuthildis from Bonn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Rhenish local saints
DATE OF BIRTH 9th century
DATE OF DEATH 9th century or 10th century