Maria-Hilf pilgrimage site
The Maria-Hilf pilgrimage site (Czech Panna Maria Pomocná ) on the Příčný vrch (Querberg) above the valley of the Zlatý potok near Zlaté Hory (Zuckmantel) in the Okres Jeseník is a place of pilgrimage in the Czech Republic . The story goes back to the time of the Thirty Years War .
Patronage
There are different details about the patronage, possibly caused by the translation from Czech. Be like that
- the Helpful Virgin Mary, protector of life
- the virgin mary protector of the unborn
- Saint Mary, protector of the born and
- called the Virgin Mary, the helper of the born.
history
There are two stories about the beginnings of the pilgrimage site.
According to one such story, the later miraculous image is said to have been in the chapel of a hermitage and to have been brought to the parish church of Zlaté Hory after the hermit's death. To protect the picture from the approaching Swedes, it was buried in the forest and later found hanging from a tree, whereupon a small chapel was built.
Another story - this one with specific names and times - tells of the pregnant Anna Thannheiser, who escaped from the approaching Swedes to the woods on the Gottgabberg (Boží dar) alone or with her husband and his mother in 1647. July gave birth to a son.
This Martin Thannheiser later became a councilor in Zuckmantel, but then moved to Neustadt in Upper Silesia , where his daughter Dorothea married the cloth merchant Benjamin Weiß. Martin Thannheiser died on August 3, 1714. Dorothea Weiß was economically in a position to have the vow made by either her grandmother Anna Thannheiser or her father to have a picture of Mary made and in 1718 to hang it in his place of birth.
A wandering painter named Camillo Kutzerino, a Simon Schwarz or a nameless painter from Neustadt are named as painters. The picture was a copy of the Passau Madonna and Child by Lucas Cranach.
Due to the remote location, the picture was initially hardly noticed. It was not until the report of the tailor Samuel Richter, who accidentally found the portrait in the forest that it was surrounded by a strange light phenomenon, made it known in the country, first in Zuckmantel and later on.
Place of pilgrimage
Wooden chapel
First, in 1718, a wooden chapel was built to protect the image of Mary. This was to be removed in 1785 under Emperor Joseph II , who also had pilgrimages forbidden. The pilgrimage site was preserved because no local could be found who wanted to take on this work. In 1803 the military was threatened to enforce this order. Pilgrimages were officially permitted again only in 1819.
At the request of the people of Zuckmantel, the image of the Virgin Mary was transferred from the pilgrimage church to the parish church of Zuckmantel in a solemn procession on September 21, 1729.
In 1805 the prince-archbishop woodruff Hannichl (or Hannich) had the wooden chapel enlarged and a new picture painted.
Stone church
In 1830 the archpriest Philipp Dittrich came to Zuckmantel and arranged for the new pilgrimage church to be built. The foundation stone was laid in 1834, and on September 8, 1841 (Mary's birth) the new church was solemnly consecrated.
From around 1909, the small wooden chapels that were built around the pilgrimage church, known as “caves”, were replaced by massive stone buildings.
The pilgrimage site survived the Second World War unscathed, but on May 24, 1955, the communist rulers forbade holding church services here, whereupon the unused church gradually fell into disrepair. Renovation work began during the Prague Spring , but was forcibly stopped in May 1973.
On November 22, 1973, the church was blown up and the area was leveled with bulldozers.
Current church
After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, a committee was formed to rebuild the pilgrimage site. During the Pope's visit to Czechoslovakia, John Paul II consecrated the foundation stone for the new facility in Velehrad .
In 1991 the Archdiocese of Olomouc approved the restoration of the pilgrimage site of Mariahilf bei Zuckmantel and the Zuckmantel city administration approved the necessary reallocation of the property in order to be able to rebuild the pilgrimage church. The building permit followed on July 25, 1992.
Construction work began in April 1993. The inauguration ceremony took place on September 23, 1995 in the presence of Jan Graubner (Archbishop of Olomouc), Giovanni Coppa (Archbishop and Apostolic Nuncio), Alfons Nosol (Bishop of Opole, Poland), Adolf Schrenk (Germany), 30 other priests and over 12,000 Believers from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Germany.
Trutzhain
The pilgrimage church in Trutzhain , built after the Second World War, was named after this pilgrimage church.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mariahilf, the official site . Retrieved November 13, 2009
- ↑ http://www.czechtourism.com/ger/de/docs/what-to-see/religious-sites/all/zlate-hory/ ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically saved as marked defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of July 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c Lothar Martin: Maria Hilf bei Zuckmantel . from June 24, 2000 on www.radio.cz. Retrieved November 5, 2009.
- ^ Josef Lowag: Legends and stories from the Jeseníky Mountains.
- ↑ http://mariahilf.hyperlink.cz
- ↑ a b c Churches of Zuckmantel - Pilgrimage Church of Maria Hilf ( Memento from February 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved November 5, 2009.
- ↑ Josef Lowag: Illustrated guide through the Sudeten Mountains ...
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from February 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.kirchenmusik.bistum-fulda.de/bistum/presse_medien/liste_pressemeldung/2004/2004_04/bpd_2004_10/bpd_20041013_Trutzhain.shtml?navid=43 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was created automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Mariahilf, the official website
- Maria Hilf bei Zuckmantel (Radio Prague)
- Pilgrimage Church of Maria Hilf
- Images and texts by Josef Lowag on the subject
- A resurrected place of pilgrimage - the history of the Maria-Hilf-Kirche near Zuckmantel (Zlaté Hory)
literature
- Josef Lowag: Illustrated guide through the Sudeten Mountains, their health resorts, sanatoriums and summer resorts with special consideration of the Karlsbrunn baths , W. Krommer, Verlagbuchhandlung, Freudenthal, 1903
- Josef Lowag: Legends and stories from the Altvatergebirge , W. Krommer, Verlagbuchhandlung, Freudenthal, 1904
Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 31.6 ″ N , 17 ° 23 ′ 44.3 ″ E