Maria Elend (Dietramszell)
The pilgrimage church Maria Elend (also pilgrimage church Maria im Elend) is a small church in the Baroque style near Dietramszell in Upper Bavaria. It is located, together with a few buildings, about one kilometer south and above the town on the flank of the Zeller Forest at 712 m above sea level in the Maria-Elend part of the municipality of the same name . It is consecrated to the Seven Sorrows of Mary and belongs to the Dietramszell Parish Association.
The church consists of an octagonal central building with an attached tower under which the entrance is located. The main building has a steep pitched roof, the tower a copper onion dome . In the west there is a separate sacristy.
history
The church was built from 1687 to 1690 on the edge of a court marque of the Augustinian canons , whose monastery had been in Dietramszell since 1098. On July 15, 1690, it was consecrated by Auxiliary Bishop Simon Judas Thaddäus Schmid, although it was given its current name at a later date. There was already a chapel in front of it, which was to be enlarged to accommodate a growing number of visitors and in which images of the suffering Christ and the painful Mother of God could be seen. Pilgrimages to this place are said to have existed as early as 1600 .
A local legend wants to know that the origin of the church goes back to a salvation from need during the Thirty Years' War . One persecuted by an armed band called the Mother of God and escaped into an unexpectedly found hole in the ground. According to this tradition, the two figures were also found buried. As a reminder, there is a pit behind the altar of the church, in which the sick crouched on pilgrimages to seek healing. After an accident, the pit was covered at an unknown time around the middle of the 20th century.
Provost Innozenz Deiserer had the interior renewed in 1790/91. In 1964 the church was renovated.
Furnishing
The altarpiece shows in an unusual representation the scourged Christ sitting next to the scourge column, his head propped up thoughtfully. Opposite him sits his mother Maria , veiled and in mourning with folded hands.
A ceiling fresco from 1791 by Johann Sebastian Troger from Weilheim is important. It shows the adoration of the suffering Jesus and the Mother of Sorrows by farmers seeking help, sick people and a procession. There are many votive tablets in the church , the oldest dating from 1607.
Surname
Initially called Elend Kircherl , the church was named Maria Elend in 1827. The word "misery" appears in Old High German in the forms alilandi, elelende, ellint, in Middle High German in the form ellende and is described in the meaning of "Grenzland", "foreign land" or "banishment", "captivity". This could have related to the border situation of the church in the former Hofmark, or it can be interpreted religiously as the distance between earthly existence and heavenly paradise.
Surroundings
The forest pond is just a short distance from Maria Elend, also on the edge of the forest . General motor vehicle traffic is not permitted to drive to the pilgrimage church . Hikers and cyclists pass the chapel on the route from Dietramszell to Kirchsee and Reutberg Monastery .
Web links
- From A to D'Zell: Maria Elend pilgrimage church
- Photos of church furnishings, in the Warburg Institute Iconographic Database .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.dietramszell-kirchen.de/dietramszell2.htm
- ↑ Gisela Schinzel-Penth : Sagas and legends about the Fünfseenland and Wolfratshausen. Ambro Lacus Verlag 2008, ISBN 9783921445303 , p. 293 f.
- ^ A b Christian Schreiber: Pilgrimages through the German country - A pilgrimage to Germany's holy places . Sankt Augustinus Verlag, Berlin 1928, page 257
- ↑ a b Dietramszell - and its sights
Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′ 28 " N , 11 ° 35 ′ 57" E