Lourdes grotto

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The statue of Our Lady of Lourdes in the Grotto of Massabielle near Lourdes

The Lourdes grotto is the name of the Marian grottoes , which are replicas of the Grotto of Massabielle near Lourdes in southern France and of Our Lady of Lourdes . According to her own statements, St. Bernadette saw Our Lady in this grotto in 1858 . In place of the apparitions of Mary, a Madonna figure adorns the grotto, the original of which Joseph-Hugues Fabisch created for Massabielle in 1864 according to Bernadette's instructions.

Particularly towards the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, such Lourdes grottos were found in Catholic churches consecrated in Our Lady in Lourdes and in other Catholic churches (some with a side altar ), in cemeteries or as landmarks at a crossroads, on the edge of the field or in the forest built. Lourdes grottos are important objects of local pilgrimages . Smaller Lourdes grottos, built by private individuals (often in their own contribution), were often created on the basis of private vows, often in connection with a pilgrimage to Lourdes and the healing of illnesses. B. as a thank you for returning home unscathed from the war or rescue from danger.

List of important Lourdes caves

Germany

Lourdes grotto in the churchyard of the parish church St. Walburga and Ottilie, Gornhofen near Ravensburg
Lourdes grotto in Aulendorf

Baden-Württemberg

Bavaria

Hesse

  • Lourdes grotto next to the parish church in Unter-Hambach ▼ in the Bergstrasse district
District of Fulda
Main-Kinzig district

Lower Saxony

Lourdes grotto on the old monastery grounds in Wietmarschen
  • Lourdes grotto on the Kreuzberg near Ottbergen in the Hildesheim district
  • Lourdes grotto in Wietmarschen in the Grafschaft Bentheim district

North Rhine-Westphalia

The Lourdes grotto of the St. Marien Hospital in Bonn
Lourdes grotto in Dalhausen

Rhineland-Palatinate

Saarland

Niedaltdorf , Lourdes grotto in the Church of St. Rufus (1890)
Wallerfangen , Lourdes grotto at the Church of St. Katharina (1954)

About 110 large Lourdes grottos are known in the Saarland. Together with the neighboring and historically closely intertwined neighboring department of Moselle , the area has over 460 public facilities. The earliest Lourdes cult site is likely to be a small church built between 1884 and 1886 in what is now Wallerfang's district of Düren . In 1890, the first larger replica of the Massabielle grotto in the local parish church of St. Rufus followed in neighboring Niedaltdorf . The establishment of Lourdes grottos in Saarland continued through the first half of the 20th century and reached its climax with the Marian year 1953–1954. In addition, thanks to politically motivated support from the then Catholic state government under Prime Minister Johannes Hoffmann in Saarland, the Marian columns in Bous , Wadern , Bildstock , Neunkirchen and St. Ingbert or the large Marian complex of the Ensdorf Hasenberg, the construction of the "Marienturmes", were built on the occasion of the commemoration year “The parish church of the Holy Trinity in Fraulautern , the Marian station altar in the center of Beckingen , the Marienbrunnen on the Great Market in Saarlouis and the Marian window cycle in the newly built monastery church of the Heiligenborn monastery in Bous. The Ensdorfer Hasenberg, which was laid out like a park between 1954 and 1960, represents the largest overall complex.

Examples of Lourdes caves in the Saarland:

Saxony

  • Lourdes grotto in Wechselburg in the district of Central Saxony

France

Ireland

Italy

Canada

National Shrines :

  • Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes, Flatrock , New Foundland and Labrador
  • Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes (St. Laurent Parish), St. Laurent , Manitoba
  • Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, Rigaud , Quebec
  • Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto, St. Albert , Alberta
  • Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine, Toronto , Ontario
  • Shrine of Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, Eleske , Alberta
  • Shrine of Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, St. Malo , Manitoba
  • Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, Kronau , Saskatchewan

Liechtenstein

Netherlands

Austria

Lourdes grotto in the Vienna Woods

East Timor

Lourdes grotto in Biacou (East Timor)

Mariengrotten (Gruta) are numerous and widespread in the predominantly Roman Catholic East Timor , both in natural caves and in artificially created grottos and semi-domes.

  • Gruta da Nossa Senhora de Bebonuk , grotto with a small forecourt
  • Gruta de Na. Sra. de Lourdes de Comoro , artificial Lourdes grotto with a life-size statue of the Virgin Mary
  • Fatumaca , Marian Grotto
  • Gruta Morutau , Marian grotto at an old animistic shrine

Switzerland

Lourdes grotto Maria Bildstein in Benken (SG)

Spain

Czech Republic

  • Modlivý důl (prayer ditch), Countess Kinský rock chapel Svojkov (Schwoika)

Vatican state

United Kingdom

Aruba

  • Lourdes Grotto at Seroe Preto, San Nicolas

See also

literature

  • Konrad Kümmel: Something about Lourdes grottos . In: Archives for Christian Art. Organ of the Rottenburg Diocesan Art Association. 26th year 1908, pp. 41-44 and 45-47.
  • Rupert Schreiber: A grotto in the garden. 150 years of Lourdes, popularized piety and denominational identity, the triumph of the cult of Mary in Lourdes on the Saar. In: Saargeschichten, 1/2008, pp. 25–29.
  • Rupert Schreiber: The pilgrimage in the garden - Lourdes grottoes from 1870. In: The Hercules grotto in Worms, damage - concepts - measures. IFS report 45, ed. from the Institute for Stone Conservation. Mainz 2013, pp. 139–148.
  • Rupert Schreiber: Church and piety - The Lourdes grottoes in Saarland. In: Saargeschichten, 1/2016, p. 64.

Web links

Commons : Lourdes Grottoes  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: Lourdesgrotte  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lourdes Grotto - Oberharmersbach
  2. ↑ Michael Mott : Gun shots for the consecration of the cave. The Mariengrotte of Poppenhausen dates from the year 1893. In: Bonifatiusbote, church newspaper for the diocese of Fulda. Volume 134, No. 44, November 4, 2018, p. 14.
  3. ↑ report. domradio.de
  4. ↑ Wall fort places and sites in the Diocese of Trier (PDF)
  5. ↑ Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland. ( Publications of the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland , Volume 40), Saarbrücken 2002, p. 221 and p. 449; Pp. 292-293 and p. 530.
  6. ↑ Rupert Schreiber: Church and Piety. The Lourdes grottos in Saarland. In: Saargeschichten , 1/2016, p. 64.
  7. ^ Rupert Schreiber: A grotto in the garden. 150 years of Lourdes. Popularized piety and denominational identity. The triumph of the cult of Mary from Lourdes on the Saar. In: Saargeschichten , 1/2008, pp. 25–29.
  8. ^ Oranna Dimmig: Art Lexicon Saar. Art location Hasenberg Ensdorf / Saar. Edited by the Institute for Current Art in Saarland, Saarbrücken 2014, pp. 9–12.
  9. ↑ Page to the Lourdes grotto Ommersheim (Saarland)
  10. ^ Picture and history of the Lourdes grotto of Bantanges , accessed January 3, 2015
  11. ^ Shrines in Canada . GCatholic.com
  12. ↑ How the Imst Lourdes Grotto came into being
  13. ↑ Morschach: 80 years of Lourdes Grotto celebrated . (PDF; 182 kB)
  14. ^ Parish of Sachseln, Lourdes Chapel
  15. ↑ Municipality of Ueberstorf, Lourdes Grotto (PDF)
  16. ^ Lourdes grottoes in the Sarganserland and the wider area . Further literature: Edgar Koller: Lourdesandachtsstätten Switzerland and Principality of Liechtenstein. Mosnang 2016.