Loybrigius Column
The listed Loybrigius column is a pale sandstone stele erected in 1826 by the Schwandorf theologian Father Cassiodor Franz Joseph Zenger together with the barons of Künzburg.
Geographical location
The original location of the Loybrigius Column is historically significant. It was east of State Road 2397 on a square that in 2008 belonged to the company premises of the metal construction company Wopper. This place is managed by the Bavarian Monument Office under the number D-3-6738-0154 as the location of the St. Sebastian chapel and the hermitage "Bei der Klause" with associated graves. The name of this place is "Lange Meile".
The restored Loybrigius column was erected on July 10, 2011 about 3.6 km south of Schwandorf between two rain-collecting ponds west of State Road 2397. The new location is about 140 m northwest of the original location.
Description of the column
It is a 2.11 meter high column made of light sandstone. Originally this column had a sandstone base. Next to the column was a sandstone bench. Two old linden trees stood to the left and right of the column. The sandstone plinth and bench have disappeared. One of the linden trees was felled, the other is in very poor condition.
At its new location, a new sandstone plinth was made for the column according to the conservator's opinion. Two young linden trees were planted to the left and right of the column. There is a wooden bench next to the column.
A simple cross is carved into the top of the column. In the center of the front there is a round cartouche with the following inscription: "The blessed Lonprigus son of Count Babo von Abensberg, famous throughout Germany for his holiness preaching office and miracles, died in Schwandorf in 1061."
Underneath, a smaller round cartouche bears the inscription: "The place of his burial is here where a St. Sebastian's chapel once stood next to a hermitage called the long mile."
There are diamond-shaped cartridges on both sides of the column. The left of the two bears the inscription: “June 24th J. Diener. 1919 "
The column is protected under the monument number D-3-76-161-33 at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .
history
Legendary origin
It is said that the blessed Loybrigius (also: Loybrigus, Lonprigus, Leoprigus, Leobrigus) was one of the 32 sons of Burgrave Babo II of Abensberg. He is said to have lived in Schwandorf, died in 1061 and was buried on the Long Mile. Written reports about this can be found in Johannes Aventinus and Matthäus Rader . Aventinus calls Loybrigius blessed (divum Leoprigum) and Rader calls Loybrigius holy (sanctum). The existence and origin of Loybrigius are still controversial. The origins of the Babonen and Abensberger family are also controversial among historians.
Around 1600 Christoph Vogel wrote about the grave of Loybrigius that it was located “after the road from Dachelhofen to the large linden tree near whose church on Regensburger Strasse years ago was called An der Lange Meile”.
Matthäus Rader wrote in 1615 that Loybrigius was a brother of the hermit Heinrich von Ebrantshausen and was buried on the 6th milestone in Regensburg.
A church is said to have stood here before the 15th century. In the 15th century there was a cross at this point.
From the 16th century
In 1526 a chapel is mentioned for this place. When Schwandorf became Protestant, the chapel was demolished in 1554 or 1556.
A St. Sebastian church with an attached hermitage was built on this site in 1713 as thanks for being spared the plague. This was broken off again in 1805 as a result of the secularization in Bavaria and the hermitage was closed.
In 1826 the Schwandorf theologian Father Cassiodor Franz Joseph Zenger erected the stele that exists today together with the Barons of Künzburg .
During construction work in 1936, skeletal remains, a brass crucifix, a medallion of Our Lady, a rosary and coins with the dates 1710 and 1724 were discovered. The skeletal remains were dated to the 18th century.
In 2008 the column was restored by the stone restorer Christian Pösch on the initiative of the Upper Palatinate Forest Association . The city of Schwandorf provided the new place where the column was erected on July 10, 2011. It is now open to the public again.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f http://www.owv-sad.de/index.php?section=showdet&id=31&aId=4
- ^ A b c d Joseph Pesserl: Chronicle and Topography of Schwandorf in Negotiations of the Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, Volume XXIV, 1866, reprint 1989, Verlag für Kunstreproduktionen Christoph Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch, pp. 14-16, 384– 391
- ↑ https://geoportal.bayern.de/bayernatlas/index.html?bgLayer=tk&X=5462234.08&Y=4507330.78&zoom=12&lang=de&topic=ba&catalogNodes=122
- ↑ Joseph Ernst von Koch-Sternfeld: The ?? Long-celebrated dynasty of Babo von Abensberg in their ancestry, branching, and collective cooperative, in Bavaria and Austria (1857)
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Coordinates: 49 ° 17 '49.4 " N , 12 ° 5' 50.7" E