Lourdes grotto
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
Baden-Württemberg
- Lourdes grotto in Aulendorf .
- Lourdes grotto on Roßberg ▼ near Bühlerzell in the Schwäbisch Hall district
- Lourdes grotto in Erbach in the Alb-Donau district
- Mariengrotte Freiburg-Littenweiler
- Mariengrotte in Geislingen in the Zollernalb district
- Lourdes grotto in Heiligenbronn (Waldachtal) in the Freudenstadt district
- Lourdes grotto near Hohenberg ▼ in the municipality of Rosenberg in the Ostalb district
- Lourdes grotto in Kappel in the Black Forest-Baar district
- Lourdes grotto in Mochenwangen, Wolpertswende community , in the Ravensburg district
- Lourdes grotto in Nenzingen in the district of Constance
- Lourdes grotto in Oberharmersbach in the Ortenau district
- Lourdes grotto near Schelklingen in the Alb-Danube district
- Lourdes grotto near Stetten in the Tuttlingen district
- Lourdes grotto in Tannheim in the Biberach district
- Lourdes grotto in Treffelhausen, part of Böhmenkirch in the Göppingen district
- Lourdes grotto in Zaisenhausen ▼ in the Hohenlohe district
Bavaria
- Lourdes grotto in Aletshausen ▼ in the district of Günzburg
- Lourdes grotto on Lehnlachberg near Dietfurt an der Altmühl in the Neumarkt district in Upper Palatinate
- Large Mariengrotto near Heigenbrücken ▼ in the Aschaffenburg district
- Lourdes grotto in the wayside shrine in Golding , Gottfrieding community
- Lourdes grotto in Hohl in the Aschaffenburg district
- Lourdes grotto in Isen in the Upper Bavarian district of Erding
- Lourdes grotto in Kirchhaslach in the Unterallgäu district
- Lourdes grotto near Niederrieden ▼ in the Unterallgäu district
- Mariengrotte in Osterzell ▼ in the Ostallgäu district
- Lourdes grotto in Ottobeuren ▼ in the Unterallgäu district
- Lourdes grotto near Waldsassen ▼ in the Tirschenreuth district
- Lourdes grotto in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm
- Lourdes grotto in Murnau am Staffelsee ▼ in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district
- Lourdes chapel with grotto in Ramsau near Haag in the Mühldorf am Inn district
- Lourdes grotto in Scheuring in the Landsberg am Lech district
Hesse
- Lourdes grotto next to the parish church in Unter-Hambach ▼ in the Bergstrasse district
- District of Fulda
- Lourdes grotto in Bad Salzschlirf in the Fulda district
- Lourdes grotto in Harmerz
- Marian grotto in houseleek
- Mariengrotte in Giesel , Neuhof municipality
- Marie Grotto in small Lüder , community Großenlüder , Hesse
- Marien and Lourdes grotto in Poppenhausen (Wasserkuppe)
- Lourdes grotto in Rommerz , Neuhof municipality
- Lourdes grotto in Rückers , municipality of Flieden
- Main-Kinzig district
- Mariengrotte in Horbach in the Main-Kinzig-Kreis
Lower Saxony
- Lourdes grotto on the Kreuzberg near Ottbergen in the Hildesheim district
- Lourdes grotto in Wietmarschen in the Grafschaft Bentheim district
North Rhine-Westphalia
- Lourdes grotto in Binsfeld in the Düren district
- Lourdes grotto in Borgentreich in the Höxter district
- Lourdes grotto in front of the St. Marien Hospital Bonn
- Lourdes grotto in Borschemich in the Heinsberg district (destroyed in 2016 by the Garzweiler II open-cast lignite mine )
- Lourdes grotto in Beverungen- Dalhausen in the Höxter district
- Lourdes grotto in Everswinkel in the Warendorf district
- Lourdes grotto in Nettersheim in the Euskirchen district
- Lourdes grotto at the Sacred Heart Monastery in Nettersheim in the Euskirchen district
- Lourdes grotto in Niederkassel-Uckendorf
- Lourdes grotto in Monschau- Rohren
Rhineland-Palatinate
- Lourdes grotto (chapel) in Elkenroth in the Altenkirchen district (Westerwald)
- Lourdes grotto in Herforst in the Bitburg-Prüm district
- Lourdes grotto in Maria Rosenberg near Waldfischbach-Burgalben in the district of Southwest Palatinate
- Lourdes grotto in Leitzweiler in the Birkenfeld district
- Lourdes grotto near St. Mauritius in Koblenz
- Lourdes grotto at the tower of the parish church St. Stephan in Bickenbach (Hunsrück)
- Lourdes grotto of the Pfarrer-Kraus-Anlagen in Koblenz-Arenberg
- Lourdes grotto in St. Martin in the Südliche Weinstrasse district
- Lourdes grotto in Waldrohrbach in the Südliche Weinstrasse district
- Lourdes grotto Marienstatt Abbey in Streithausen in the Westerwald district
- Mariengrotte in your in Trier
- Lourdes grotto in the parish garden in Trierweiler
- Lourdes grotto at the Marienthal monastery in the Altenkirchen district
- Lourdes grotto in Hagenbach
Saarland
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:
- Lourdes grotto at the church of St. Josef and St. Wendelin in Diefflen
- Lourdes grotto in Dillingen / Saar am Saardom
- Lourdes grotto within the large Marian complex on the Hasenberg in Ensdorf (Saar)
- Lourdes grotto in Losheim am See (1.4 km from the Dellborner Mühle)
- Lourdes grotto at the church of St. Peter and Paul in Nalbach
- Lourdes grotto in the church of St. Marien in Neunkirchen (Saar)
- Lourdes grotto in Ommersheim
- Lourdes grotto in Primstal
- Lourdes grotto at the Church of St. Katharina in Wallerfangen
Saxony
- Lourdes grotto in Wechselburg in the district of Central Saxony
France
- Lourdes grotto at Wettolsheim in Alsace , in memory of the house where François-Xavier Schoepfer , Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes, was born in 1911 and was burnt down
- Lourdes grotto of the Church of St. Verena , Enchenberg in Lorraine
- Lourdes Grotto at Bantanges , created in 1929
Ireland
- Lourdes Grotto at Kylemore Abbey
Italy
- Grotta di Lourdes in Chiampo
- Lourdes grotto in Neustift Abbey
- Lourdes grotto in Ortisei in Val Gardena
- Lourdes grotto of the Capuchin Church in Lana
- Grotta di Lourdes in Cannero Riviera
- Lourdes Grotto in San Giuseppe dei Vecchi , Naples
Canada
- 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
- Lourdes Grotto Bendern
Netherlands
- Lourdes grotto Valkenburg
Austria
- Lourdes grotto Klagenfurt , Carinthia
- Lourdesgrotte Altruppersdorf , Lower Austria
- Lourdesgrotte Bisamberg , Lower Austria
- Lourdes grotto Haslau-Maria Ellend , Lower Austria
- Lourdes grotto in the Vienna Woods near Maria Gugging , Lower Austria
- Lourdes grotto in the Rochuskirche , Vienna
- Pulkauer Bründl , Lower Austria
- Lourdesgrotte Niederabsdorf , Lower Austria
- Lourdes grotto Stiwoll , Styria
- Lourdesgrotte Imst , Tyrol
- Lourdes grotto Längenfeld , Tyrol - grotto above the mills of the open-air museum and several wayside shrines with mini grotto in the village
- Lourdes grotto Weerberg , Tyrol
- Petronilla Chapel Feldkirch-Altenstadt, Vorarlberg
- Lourdes grotto in the Franciscan monastery Lienz , East Tyrol
- Lourdes Chapel Maria Luggau , Carinthia
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 near Benken SG
- Lourdes grotto in Besenbüren
- Lourdes grotto in Boswil
- Lourdes grotto in Eiken
- Lourdes grotto in Hornussen
- Lourdes grotto in Leuggern
- Lourdes grotto in Libingen
- Lourdes grotto in Marbach
- Lourdes grotto in the Tellenwald of Morschach
- Lourdes Chapel in Sachseln , with Lourdes grotto in the choir
- Lourdes grotto St. Iddaburg near Gähwil
- Lourdes grotto in Obbürgen, municipality of Stansstad , with a way of the cross in the forest
- Lourdes grotto in Ueberstorf
See also the list of Lourdes grottos on sarganserland-walensee.ch
Spain
- Lourdes grotto at the source Font de s'Ermita 350 meters southeast of the Ermita de Betlem in the municipality of Artà on Mallorca
Czech Republic
- Modlivý důl (prayer ditch), Countess Kinský rock chapel Svojkov (Schwoika)
Vatican state
- Lourdes Grotto in the Vatican Gardens
United Kingdom
- Carfin Lourdes Grotto at Motherwell in Scotland
Aruba
- Lourdes Grotto at Seroe Preto, San Nicolas
See also
- Marian apparitions and pilgrimage in Lourdes
- Lourdes Church
- Rock Madonna , Mariastein Monastery , Canton Solothurn
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
- Cultural history of the Lourdes caves at Monuments Online
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lourdes Grotto - Oberharmersbach
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ report. domradio.de
- ↑ Wall fort places and sites in the Diocese of Trier (PDF)
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Rupert Schreiber: Church and Piety. The Lourdes grottos in Saarland. In: Saargeschichten , 1/2016, p. 64.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Oranna Dimmig: Art Lexicon Saar. Art location Hasenberg Ensdorf / Saar. Edited by the Institute for Current Art in Saarland, Saarbrücken 2014, pp. 9–12.
- ↑ Page to the Lourdes grotto Ommersheim (Saarland)
- ^ Picture and history of the Lourdes grotto of Bantanges , accessed January 3, 2015
- ^ Shrines in Canada . GCatholic.com
- ↑ How the Imst Lourdes Grotto came into being
- ↑ Morschach: 80 years of Lourdes Grotto celebrated . (PDF; 182 kB)
- ^ Parish of Sachseln, Lourdes Chapel
- ↑ Municipality of Ueberstorf, Lourdes Grotto (PDF)
- ^ Lourdes grottoes in the Sarganserland and the wider area . Further literature: Edgar Koller: Lourdesandachtsstätten Switzerland and Principality of Liechtenstein. Mosnang 2016.