Loh (Stephansposching)

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Loh is a district of the Stephansposching community in the Deggendorf district in Lower Bavaria .

Loh from afar

geography

Loh is a small place in the Gäuboden , which is a few hundred meters north of federal highway 8 and about 2 kilometers east of Straßkirchen . The village of Wischlburg is located about 500 meters northeast of Loh on the nearby Danube . The center of Loh is the pilgrimage church "Zum Heiligen Kreuz" .

history

It was first mentioned in a document in 905, when King Ludwig gave the child a farm near the Loua, which means swampy area (source: Regensburger Annalen ). It is therefore certain that parts of the village were marshland a thousand years ago. Also in the Regensburg Annalen 949 a fight of the Hungarians at Louna is reported. Loh is first mentioned as a parish in 1266 . There is evidence that the pilgrimage began around 1400 and was sponsored by Metten Monastery . Loh developed into an important place of pilgrimage.

In 1423 the Deggendorf judge sat on the Schranne zu Loh on the orders of the caretaker von Natternberg . In 1464 the place belonged to the Wischlburg Obmannschaft and in 1474 it was combined with Wischlburg. In 1532 Loh appeared separately from Wischlburg as one of 26 chairmen of the Natternberg district court , and in 1602 as one of 36 chairmen. In 1752, the chairmanship also included the wasteland of Wolferskofen in addition to Loh.

Keltenschanze near Loh.

1784 bargain by the widowed Electress Anna Maria Sophia on the occasion of the establishment of their ladies pin four grundbare grounds of the monastery Aldersbach to Loh.

There is also a late Celtic Viereckschanze near Loh , one of the few remaining in the Danube plain.

Place of pilgrimage and church

The church from the outside

History of the pilgrimage church

Loh was first mentioned as an independent parish in 1266. In 1300 a church appeared in the history books for the first time and slowly developed into a place of pilgrimage. This was created because of the Loher Cross , which a Roman officer had erected in the 5th century. It was first thrown into a swamp by the pagan Bavarians after the Romans had withdrawn and then publicly venerated in the 8th century when Bavarian Duke Theodo II called for the Christianization of his country.

The Loh parish was later incorporated into the Stephansposching parish , which was handed over to the Benedictine monastery in Metten in 1615 for care. Since the pilgrimage to Loh experienced a real boom in the 15th century, construction of the new church began in 1689, which was considered complete with the consecration by Abbot Benedikt von Metten in 1706 and the erection of the tower cross in 1714. The building was managed by the Munich court architect Viscardi ; The Deggendorf city mason Benedikt Schöttl is among those involved in the measure .

The interior of the pilgrimage church to Loh

Between 1768 and 1772, the Metten monastery had the furnishings of the pilgrimage church renewed in the late Rococo style by the two Munich court artists Franz Xaver Feichtmayr and Christian Wink .

Present meaning

The pilgrimage church of the Holy Cross in Loh is one of the most important baroque and rococo churches in Bavaria. It can also be described as a popular, although small, place of pilgrimage .

The Loher Kirta

Every first Sunday in September the Loher Kirchweihfest ( Loher Kirta ) takes place with a fair, beer garden and stalls, which was of national importance until the Second World War: “In the entire Gäuboden, the Loher Kirta was a striking point in time after which the farmers were in short supply of a high church festival in autumn the events set: this or that happened 4 weeks before or 6 weeks after the Loher Kirta. "

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Coordinates: 48 ° 50 '  N , 12 ° 46'  E