Lourdes grotto (Tannheim)
The Mariengrotte is a Lourdes grotto in Tannheim in the district of Biberach in Upper Swabia .
location
The Lourdes grotto is located in Friedhofstrasse, below the Funkenberg and the church and community cemetery in the upper part of the village. There is a wooden bench in front of the grotto . On both side walls of the grotto there are several signs with the inscription “Mary helped” .
history
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The Mariengrotte was originally set up in the former ossuary under Pastor Jacob Braun . Due to an expansion of the cemetery in 1938, the Lourdes grotto was moved to its current location. A farmer made the nearby mountainside available for this purpose. Today's Lourdes grotto was built by a master mason and a citizen of Tannheim using old tombstones.
At the time of the Second World War , from autumn 1944, every evening petitions to the grotto took place in order to pray for an early end to the war and to spare the hometown. When, towards the end of the war, Tannheim was increasingly endangered by air raids due to its proximity to Memmingen , its train station and Illerwerk II Tannheim , Pastor Hugo Farny (1934–1961) ordered the village to protect Mary and vowed to take part in an annual procession if it was spared To hold Lourdes grotto.
Since Tannheim was largely spared from the war, the Scapular Festival has been held in July as a Tannheim Festival to fulfill the vow.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Small village chronicle: Events up to the outbreak of the Second World War ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2011 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. accessed on March 14, 2012
Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 7.4 ″ N , 10 ° 4 ′ 49.4 ″ E