Maria Aich (Oberbernbach)

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Maria Aich

The Maria Aich pilgrimage chapel is a monument in Oberbernbach near Aichach .

history

Maria Aich shortly after completion in 1698 on an engraving by Michael Wening

In 1692 a devotional picture engraved in copper was hung on an oak tree by the schoolmaster's son Wilhelm Gastl on the way from Aichach to St. Leonhard in Inchenhofen . This image of Our Lady of Ettal was widely worshiped by pilgrims who passed by . A wooden hut was built around this picture, in which Gastl lived as a hermit , before a brick chapel was built from 1696 to 1698. This chapel with a facade structured by double pilasters was largely built according to plans by Aichacher Johann Michael Rigg. According to tradition, the wife of the mayor Wilhelm Schreiner from Höchstädt was healed on April 2, 1699 , which made the pilgrimage to the chapel known beyond old Bavaria . In 1699/1700 Lorenz Sedlmayr's altar was made with a copy of the Ettal Mother of God, in whose breast the original pilgrimage picture was inserted. The altar stands above the oak tree on which the image of Mary originally hung. In 1710 a sacristan's house was added, the interior of which today forms a unit with the church. In 1723 Matthias Lotter from Sirchenrieder stuccoed the interior. The consecration took place on June 21, 1735 by the Augsburg auxiliary bishop Johann Jakob von Mayr. In the course of secularization , the pilgrimage to the chapel ended. Demolition in 1811 was prevented by a farmer from Oberbernbach buying the chapel. Later day laborers, beggars and homeless people lived in the sacristan's house. The chapel was renovated in 1970/74.

Web links

Commons : Maria Aich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Raab, Gabriele and Hubert: Pilgrimage routes in Wittelsbacher Land: around known and forgotten pilgrimage sites . Wissner, Augsburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89639-795-9 .
  2. ↑ a b c The altar stands over the remains of an old oak. In: Aichacher Nachrichten. January 21, 2017. Retrieved November 23, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Aichach architectural monuments. Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, November 8, 2018, accessed on January 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Erich Echter: The ravages of time are gnawing at the Maria Aich Chapel. Retrieved January 6, 2019 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 28 ′ 54.6 "  N , 11 ° 6 ′ 21.1"  E