Maria Lindenberg (St. Peter)

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The pilgrimage church
Image of grace in the church
"Maria appears to Hans Zähringer on the Lindenberg" in St. Jakobus in Stegen Eschbach
The Marian column
The fountain by the church

Maria Lindenberg ▼ is a pilgrimage church and a retreat house at 720  m above sea level. NHN on the southwest slope of Lindenberg ( 813.7  m ) near St. Peter in the Black Forest . The pilgrimage has existed since 1497, the patronage is the Assumption (August 15). A special feature of this church is the Eucharistic Adoration , which was carried out from 1858 to 1869 and has been prayed by men day and night all year round since 1955 for peace and the renewal of the church.

history

The wayside shrine in the Candle Chapel indicates the origin of the pilgrimage - an answer to prayer in severe distress. At the farmer Pantaleon Mayer from Ibental a cattle epidemic raged that did not end. He saw this as a punishment for his sins. In a dream he heard a voice asking him to donate a statue to the Virgin Mary. He promised this and the plague was quickly over. He commissioned the statue, but the sculptor was late, and it wasn't until his house burned down that he carried out the work immediately.

The first chapel on the Lindenberg was built after Maria appeared at a spring, it is the Marienquelle at the Frauenbrunnen, to a shepherd boy of the farmer Mayer and made him the prophecy that three of the richest farmers in the valley would die within a year and that too arrived. So Mayer then built a wooden chapel, presumably on the spot where the wayside shrine stood. After another apparition of Mary, which the old farmer Hans Zähringer from Unteribental had and in which Maria gave him a cross made of two shavings and a small piece of wood as a sign, the chapel was expanded and completed by Pantaleon Mayer before 1525. This is shown in the picture from 1790 "Maria appears to Hans Zähringer on the Lindenberg" by Simon Göser in the church of St. Jakob in Eschbach .

During the Peasants' War the chapel was desecrated in 1525, after repairs the first high altar was erected in 1584 and the church was consecrated in 1601 by the auxiliary bishop of Konstanz . In 1606 a new high altar was donated by the rulers in Stegen. This church was also looted and destroyed during the Thirty Years War . After the reconstruction, there was a regular service from 1670 by the priests from the nearby St. Peter's monastery . Since the monastery of St. Peter burned down during the Dutch War in 1678, the parish service took place on the Lindenberg. After the Peace of Rastatt in 1714, the pilgrimage increased significantly.

On September 14, 1761, a new church was consecrated on the Lindenberg, built and designed by Abbot Philipp Jakob Steyrer with funds from St. Peter's Monastery. The same abbot had to demolish the chapel on March 15, 1787 by order of the bishop, who implemented an imperial decree of September 30, 1786, and from April of the same year build the parish church of St. James in Eschbach with the material . The pilgrimage picture was kept in St. Peter. There is also Simon Göser's picture from 1790 “Abbot Ph. J. Steyrer on the steps of the demolished chapel on the Lindenberg”. But shortly afterwards there was another public pilgrimage to the Lindenberg in November 1796, and on August 9, 1800 the Ibental community decided to rebuild the chapel. The request of May 19, 1802 was rejected in June by the Baden church councilor Johann Ignaz Häberlin from Constance. Nevertheless, the topping-out ceremony took place on October 13, 1803. In 1804 the chapel was banned by the government and the church. Nevertheless, a public procession took place on May 24, 1805, which was then followed by a canonical interdict on June 20, 1805 . The high altar is attributed to the sculptor and wood carver Johann Michael Hartmann .

In the following year 1806 St. Peter's Abbey was abolished. After the establishment of the Upper Rhine ecclesiastical province in 1821, Hermann von Vicari became archbishop of Freiburg in 1842 , and on October 28, 1842 the first candidates for the priesthood moved into the monastery, which had been rededicated as a seminary. Until 1844 the chapel - but not the foundation walls and the floor - belonged to 18 farmers from the area. On December 14, 1844, they were also able to acquire the foundation walls; this was followed in 1849 by Bishop Vicari's permission for church services. On September 8, 1849, the pilgrimage on the Lindenberg was forbidden by the government and allowed again on October 11, 1856. In January 1856 a community of sisters was approved on the Lindenberg, which worked there until September 1906. On October 8, 1858, the Eternal Adoration on the Lindenberg was started by the community of sisters, which lasted until the time of the expulsion of the sisters in 1869, and which was only resumed in 1955 by the prayer vigil of the Catholic men's organization in Freiburg. The chapel with the site was donated by the 18 owners to the community of Unteribental on January 17, 1860; this enlarged the church in 1865 and renovated it in 1881.

From 1915 retreats were held, in 1921 the property and the Renzenhof were bought by the archbishop's seminar fund and a retreat house was built there, which was inaugurated on December 26, 1927. Between 1962 and 1978 the church was completely renovated inside and outside and received a new high altar and a new organ. After the renovation work, a memorial plaque was erected in the pilgrimage chapel in 1978 for all priests from the Archdiocese of Freiburg who were murdered by the National Socialists . The renewed consecration took place on May 1, 1979. During this time, the retreat house was rebuilt after a fire. Then on October 28, 1979 the Marian column ▼ was inaugurated in front of the main entrance and between 1983 and 1984 the Way of the Cross from the Frauenbrunnen to the pilgrimage site was laid out.

In 2013 the existing organ was replaced by a new instrument that was installed in the particularly low gallery by the Ahrend organ workshop in Leer (East Friesland) . The overall concept ( register , manuals , tuning , technology) is based on organs from the baroque era . The instrument has 17 registers on two manuals and pedal and has 720 pipes. No electronic components were used.

Prayer vigil

The reason for the re-establishment of the prayer vigil lies in the trip of the then Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to Moscow from August 8th to 14th. September 1955 with the aim of releasing prisoners of war and civilians and trying to establish diplomatic relations. Diocesan President Alois stepfather wanted to accompany this Adenauer mission with an uninterrupted prayer. To this end, he gathered men from the Archdiocese of Freiburg in the Ranft Chapel in Sachseln , Switzerland . From the following year this perpetual prayer vigil was continued in the church on the Lindenberg.

Religious landmarks

From the Frauenbrunnen ▼ southwest of the pilgrimage church, a way of the cross with 14 stations leads to the square in front of the church, on which there is a fountain ▼ , depicting the history of the Lindenberg in twelve reliefs, and a Marian column. On the Marian column with the statue of Mary, the Seven Joys of Mary and four female figures from the Old Testament are shown. The Way of the Cross, the fountain and the Marian column were made by Sepp Jakob , the former foreman of the Freiburg Münsterbauhütte.

A second crossroads leads from St. Peter over the Hochgericht (813 m) elevation to the pilgrimage. The pilgrimage complex also includes the retreat and education center “Haus Maria Lindenberg” ▼ of the Archdiocese of Freiburg and a pilgrim restaurant.

An oak wayside shrine from 1580 has been preserved. It was found after the war at the Frauenbrunnen, dated and exhibited in the town hall in Unteribental until it was brought back to the Lindenberg on August 15, 1982.

Rara

The cross that Hans Zähringer received has been preserved; it was set ornately around 1700 and can be seen on the image of grace. It hangs around the neck of the baby Jesus. The abbot Ph. J. Steyrer wrote about the cross in 1741: “Imagined cross, since almost everything else was lost, is still held up to this day for eternal memory on the Linden-Berg and held in great respect; from which his constant veneration, and devout Christians, show the uncommon care for this precious treasure. It is not even half a finger long and just as wide; the wood cannot be recognized from age. The rubble, which was reported above, and with which the cross was joined, is brownish in color and, as it appears, made of camel's hair. This cross is also like a precious sign of grace in oval shape and set in silver with a crystal lid, hanging on a silver chain made by artisans of old hand. On one side of the sign a picture of the Mother of God with the stylus can be seen, which may well be a true representation of the first Linden-Bergischen grace picture. All devout pilgrims can see and worship this cross as they desire ”.

literature

  • Fridolin Mayer: Maria Lindenberg . Archbishop's Mission Institute, Freiburg 1950.
  • Joseph Hog: The Lindenberg. Pilgrimage and place of prayer in the Black Forest . Schnell and Steiner, Munich 1980.
  • Josef Läufer: Maria Lindenberg. A documentation about the origins and history of the pilgrimage site Maria Lindenberg near St. Peter . Foundation Councilor Maria Lindenberg, St. Peter 1984.
  • Richard paid (ed.): The murdered. The memorial plaque of the Archdiocese of Freiburg for the persecuted priests (1933 to 1945) in Maria Lindenberg, near St. Peter, Black Forest . Dold-Verlag, Vöhrenbach 1998. ISBN 3-927677-18-3 .
  • Franz Kern: The Dreisamtal with its chapels and pilgrimages. Schillinger, Freiburg 1985, ISBN 3-89155-023-5 .
  • Hans-Otto Mühleisen: St. Peter in the Black Forest. (Lindenberg Chapel). Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2012, ISBN 978-3-89870-790-9 , pp. 44–47.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Peter Maria Lindenberg. In: ebfr.de. Retrieved May 7, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c The Maria Lindenberg pilgrimage chapel. Pastoral care unit St. Märgen - St. Peter, archived from the original on March 3, 2014 ; accessed on May 7, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Johann Ignaz Häberlin: (* 1760 - † 1827) born in Horb am Neckar, ordained a priest in 1784, 1788 Episcopal Constance commissioner in Breisgau and pastor in St. Martin in Freiburg, 1810 Grand Ducal Ministerial Councilor in Karlsruhe. From: Heinz Duchhardt, Johannes Wischmeyer: The Congress of Vienna - a turning point in church politics. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013, ISBN 978-3-525-10123-0 .
  4. ^ Die Gebetswache ( Memento from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Catholic men's work of the Archdiocese of Freiburg
  5. ↑ from: Payten, Richard (1998): The murdered. The memorial plaque of the Archdiocese of Freiburg Maria Lindenberg. 224 pages. Vöhrenbach: Dold-Verlag, p. 6
  6. ^ History ( Memento from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Haus Maria Lindenberg
  7. ^ Badische Zeitung - With Bach through the region , here also illustration; Retrieved August 26, 2016

Web links

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