Maria in the stick
Maria im Stock is a pilgrimage church in Fuchstal .
A wooden chapel on the way between Asch and Lengenfeld was documented as early as 1647. The wooden miraculous image, a pietà , which according to legend was found on the spot in a beech tree and gives the pilgrimage chapel its name, also dates from this time .
Today's chapel was built by Freyberg in 1703 and consecrated in 1722.
In 1968 the miraculous image was stolen, which was subsequently replaced by a replica. But even the robbery did not diminish the attraction of the place of pilgrimage for the surrounding parishes. Since 1963, for example, numerous veterans, soldiers and comradeship associations from the neighboring districts of Landsberg am Lech and Ostallgäu have made a three-year pilgrimage to the pilgrimage church in gratitude for the happy return from the Second World War.
On May 13, 2011, 43 years to the day after its robbery, the stolen Pietà was brought back to its original location by the Augsburg auxiliary bishop Josef Grünwald through a miraculous and fortunate coincidence . The parish priest Bernhard Mooser had been committed to the return of the Pietà for several years. In 1994, while he was still a pastor in Asch , he received the decisive hint that ultimately led to success.
literature
- Karl Gattinger, Grietje Suhr: Landsberg am Lech, city and district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.14 ). Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7917-2449-2 .
Web links
- Pilgrimage chapel Maria im Stock (fuchstal.de)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stolen Pieta returns to Asch in Stockkapelle , Münchner Merkur from May 11, 2011
Coordinates: 47 ° 56 '21.4 " N , 10 ° 47' 58.4" E