Latzfonser Cross
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The Latzfonser Kreuz (Italian Santa Croce di Lazfons ) is a pilgrimage site in the Sarntal Alps in South Tyrol on the southern flank of the Kassianspitze . It stands at an altitude of 2300 m slm just below the Lückl-Scharte , a transition between the Tinnetal and the Durnholzer Tal or, more spaciously, the Eisack and Sarntal . Today there is a pilgrimage church and the Latzfonser Kreuz shelter . The little church on Latzfonser Kreuz, Heiligkreuz on Ritzlar , is the highest pilgrimage church in South Tyrol and the pilgrimage site is one of the highest in Europe - the Ziteil pilgrimage church (2429 m) is a little higher in the Eastern Alps, and there are chapels at higher altitudes in the Western Alps, for example on the rocci melon .
Every year in June the Black Lord , a black, carved Gothic wooden cross, is brought from the village church in Latzfons to the pilgrimage church, where it remains for the summer.
history
It is not known exactly when the first people prayed on the Kassianspitze mountain. Some researchers suspect that a small rock cave near the refuge could have been a prehistoric place of worship. Mesolithic finds - for example from the nearby Fortschellscharte - or a Bronze Age melting point a little further south prove that the area was already visited by humans in prehistoric times.
The forecast by the left Latzfonser priest in 1700, after three summers in succession hail destroyed the harvest, looking for a God image that had previously been neglected. In the funerary chapel one actually found the Black Lord , a wooden sculpture of the crucified Christ painted with a mixture of ox blood and pitch under old junk . This cross was brought in a large procession to the so-called Kaserbild in order to put it up to avert the storm. According to the legend, the Lord shook his head to express his displeasure at this location. He also disliked Kompatsch , the place where the Klausner hut is today . Only high up, on the floors below the Ritzlar , did he seem to like the place.
The Black Lord standing in this very exposed place soon attracted more and more pilgrims. Not only the shepherds from the nearby alpine pastures , but also people from more distant villages came to this place. In 1743 a small chapel was built to protect the cross, and around 1800 the community of Latzfons built the first accommodation next to it for the increasingly numerous pilgrims. In 1850 this refuge burned down and a man who might have started the fire perished in the flames. Soon the shelter was rebuilt and in the course of these construction activities the original, dilapidated chapel was replaced by a stately mountain church, which was consecrated in 1869 after two years of construction. The Black Lord God has now every year on Friday after Corpus Christi carried up in a solemn Bittprozession in this church and taken back after Latzfons in October.
Offers from the Alpine Club at the turn of the 20th century to take over the hut were rejected by the municipality of Latzfons. In 1947, however, the shelter had to be closed for good because it was in poor condition. Pastor Bartholomäus Terzer bought the crumbling building for the parish and, with the support of the local population, built today's house, which was inaugurated in 1952.
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reachability
The usual ascent leads from Latzfons over the Klausner hut . A little way above the Klausner hut begins a way of the cross , which leads with fifteen stations up to the Latzfonser Kreuz. The ascent from Latzfons takes just under three hours of walking. Higher starting points shorten the ascent, such as the Kasereck car park ( 1959 m ), from which the walking time is halved compared to the ascent from Latzfons. Another popular ascent starts in Reinswald in the Sarntal and leads over the Getrumalm and the Lücklscharte (2376 m) to the Latzfonser Kreuz.
Literature and maps
- Hanspaul Menara : At the Latzfonser Kreuz . In: Mountains. The international magazine of the mountains . No. 20 September 1986, p. 41ff.
- Freytag & Berndt-Verlag Vienna, hiking map 1: 50,000, sheet WKS 4, Sterzing - Brixen , ISBN 3-85084-794-2 .
- Topographic hiking map: Monti Sarentini / Sarntal Alps . Sheet 040, 1: 25,000. Casa Editrice Tabacco, ISBN 88-8315-054-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schutzhaus Latzfonserkreuz: News ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c Hanspaul Menara: Am Latzfonser Kreuz (see literature)
Web links
- Entry on Heiligkreuz on Ritzlar in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office
- Bergverlag Rother: Latzfonser-Kreuz-Hütte (PDF; 613 kB)
- say.at: The Latzfonser Kreuz
- Directions Latzfonser Kreuz with pictures of the Stations of the Cross
Coordinates: 46 ° 42 ′ 5.7 ″ N , 11 ° 29 ′ 59.3 ″ E