Lengenbach

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Lengenbach (disambiguation) .

Lengenbach Deining municipality Coordinates: 49 ° 15 ′ 34 ″  N , 11 ° 32 ′ 15 ″  E
Height :	492 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	2  (Jan. 1, 2017)
Postal code :	92364
Area code :	09184
The wasteland of Lengenbach

Lengenbach is a wasteland of the municipality of Deining in the Upper Palatinate district of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate with a pilgrimage church and a house. The name means to the long brook .

geography

The wasteland lies in a valley below Oberbuchfeld. It can be reached on an asphalt road from Arzthofen , or via a forest road, which is also the Main-Danube hiking trail , from Höhenberg near Neumarkt .

Lengenbach - Maria Hilf pilgrimage church

origin

The pilgrimage church Maria Lengenbach and the property on it go back to the end of the 17th century. The Oberbuchfeld village shepherd, Johann Brand, promised to erect a torture column in honor of Our Lady on the Lengenbach in the event of a violent thunderstorm in the Lengenbach valley and the paralysis of one of his children . After he had often seen a chapel in his dreams, in 1694, after successful submission, he set about building one by hand, high and round like a column of torture. As a miraculous image he had a Madonna painted - probably still today's miraculous image.

Building description

During the first half of the 18th century the chapel developed more and more into a place of pilgrimage with answers to prayer. This led to the plan to build a larger chapel under the Deiningen pastor Johann Georg Zinkl. From 1762–65, the Deiningen master mason Leonhard Preindl created the current building. A roughly square, two-bay long building with rounded corners and an indented short choir adjoins the central building in a west-east direction. The long building has an eight-sided dome roof with a lantern. The sacristy, the former hermit's apartment, is placed in front of the choir in the east; the gable roof bears a square onion-crowned roof turret.

Furnishing

Little by little the church was furnished. In 1768 the painter Johann Michael Wild from Amberg made the ceiling fresco “Assumption of Mary”, surrounded by the four evangelist medallions painted gray in gray, as well as the Marian allegories on the gallery parapet. In 1770 he delivered the pulpit with ornaments and putti . On the right side altar the altarpiece shows St. Wendelin at the throne of the Holy Trinity and at his feet the pilgrimage church. There is also a picture of the Heart of the Virgin Mary here. The left side altar shows St. Laurentius and, in the extract, the Jesuit saint Franz Xavier. There is rococo stucco in the choir, which is imitated by painting in the nave.

Further development

• 1781 Solemn consecration on October 1st by Auxiliary Bishop Felix von Stubenrauch.
• 1877 First restoration by Luxenhofer.
• 1894 200th anniversary, a plaque behind the high altar commemorates this.
• 1931 renovation by Schellinger and Schmer, Munich.
• 1952 The church receives electricity and new windows.
• 1956 The roof, which was previously slated, is covered with galvanized black sheet metal.
• 1958 Masonry and external plaster are renewed.
• 1965 A new floor is laid, the benches are repaired.
• 1968 The original picture on the high altar is restored and re-gilded by Hugo Preis.
• 1972 The Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments pays a grant of DM 20,000 for the interior renovation of the pilgrimage church. A new bell cage with a bell is installed.
• 1979 A new organ from M. Mathis & Sons, Näfels in Switzerland, is opened on April 29th. consecrated.
• 1994 The Lengenbach pilgrimage is 300 years old.
• 2004 Due to urgent repairs to structural damage, the church is closed until further notice.
• 2007 Reopening on April 29th after a thorough renovation.

Hermitage

In 1742 a hermitage in Lengenbach was approved. This was attached to the church in the east. As the first hermit, Johann Adam Sommer can be proven. In 1762 the hermit Rochus Buchner from Pavelsbach moved into the hermitage; he committed himself to teaching the youth to read and write.

Others

Since the 19th century at the latest, there has been a farm near the pilgrimage church, from which a cross-country ski run leads along the Lengenbachtal in winter . In summer, the church is a stopover for many hikers and a popular place for weddings.

The Lengenbach song

1. As many droplets fall
from heaven to earth,
so many corals in the sea,
be always adored Mary!
Forget our not, that is our request,
O Maria, do not leave us!

2. As many flowers as there are in the gardens, there are
little trees on earth, they
should all become speakers,
praise you, Maria pure.
Forget our not, that is our request,
O Maria, do not leave us!

3. I will wind a wreath for you,
of the most beautiful little flowers,
all around it with roses,
in the middle of forget-not-me.
Forget our nit ', this is our request,
O Maria, don't leave us!

Text: Originated from stanzas 5, 6, 7 of the Mariazell pilgrimage song: Greetings to you, o garden of grace! but with its own melody.

Population development

• 1875: 11 (4 buildings) (large livestock: 1 head of cattle)
• 1900: 05 (2 residential buildings)
• 1925: 11 (2 residential buildings)
• 1950: 12 (2 residential buildings)
• 1961: 06 (2 residential buildings)
• 1987: 04 (2 residential buildings, 2 apartments)
• 2017: 02

literature

• Albert Ott: The pilgrimage church Lengenbach. A short church guide , Oberbuchfeld 2011.
• Friedrich Hermann Hofmann and Felix Mader (arrangement), Die Kunstdenkmäler von Oberpfalz & Regensburg, Booklet XVII, Neumarkt City and District Office , Munich: R. Oldenbourg, 1909.

Web links

Commons : Lengenbach (Deining)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Church leaders. P. 2
2. ↑ Hofmann / Mader, p. 212
3. ↑ Church leaders, p. 3
4. ↑ Hofmann / Mader, p. 213
5. ↑ Church leaders, p. 4
6. ↑ Kgl. Statistical Bureau in Munich (edit.): Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria ... based on the results of the census of December 1st. 1875 , Munich 1876, column 884
7. ↑ Kgl. Statistical Bureau in Munich (edit.): List of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria ... [based on the results of the census of Dec. 1, 1900] , Munich 1904, column 867
8. ^ Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria according to the census of June 16, 1925 and the territorial status of January 1, 1928, Munich 1928, column 874
9. ^ Official register of places for Bavaria edited on the basis of the census of September 13, 1950 , Munich 1952, column 746
10. ^ Official register of places for Bavaria. Territorial status on October 1, 1964 with statistical information from the 1961 census, Munich 1964, column 551
11. ^ Official register of places for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 , Munich 1991, p. 257
12. ↑ deining.de: Residents in Lengenbach on January 1, 2017 ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.