Maria Schnee (Dolní Dvořiště)

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Maria Schnee near the Holy Stone
The Holy Stone by Maria Schnee

The pilgrimage church of Our Lady of the Snow by the Holy Stone ( Svatý Kámen nad Malší in Czech ) is located southeast of Rychnov nad Malší (Reichenau an der Maltsch) on the right of the valley of the Tichá river in the Czech Republic . The church on the Großer Zwickelberg is located in the area of ​​the municipality Dolní Dvořiště (Unterhaid) near the Austrian border near Leopoldschlag .

history

According to an old legend, the Madonna escaped to the Bohemian Forest and rested on a granite rock . The hard stone hugged her body, which is still visible today: a stone armchair with backrest and footstool on the Großer Zwickelberg near Unterhaid.

In 1653 the abbess Christina Pöperl from the monastery of the Poor Clares from Krumlov built the chapel of the Holy Stone above the stone armchair, which became a popular place of pilgrimage, but soon became too small. With the support of Anna Maria Fürstin von Eggenberg , it was replaced by the pilgrimage church Maria Schnee (Czech: Panna Marie Sněžná ), completed in 1701 , and a monastery was built east of the church. A chapel was built over a miraculous spring in 1709.

In 1907 the building complex was renovated. During the communist rule in 1950 the monastery was closed and the monastery buildings demolished. The pilgrimage church was closed and fell into disrepair.

In the 1980s, as the church was inaccessible from Austria due to the Iron Curtain , the Maria Schnee pilgrimage church on Hiltschnerberg was built in Leopoldschlag. There is visual contact between the two Maria-Schnee-Kirchen.

After the renovation started in 1991, the old church has been used as a pilgrimage church again since 1993.

literature

  • Jiří Černý: Poutní místa Českobudějovicka a Novohradska. České Budějovice 2004.
  • J. Hoffelner, H. Spörker: 500 years of pilgrimage to the Holy Stone. Freetown 2000.
  • Anna Loistl-Sturany: Maria Schnee then and now. Linz 1985.
  • Jan Zíka: U Sv. Camee. České Budějovice 1948.

Web links

Commons : Maria Schnee (Dolní Dvořiště)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 39 '17.09 "  N , 14 ° 29' 34.06"  O