Marienfried
Marienfried is a place of prayer near Pfaffenhofen an der Roth in the Neu-Ulm district in Bavaria . At the place of prayer there is the Chapel of Mercy , the Marienfried Church, the pilgrim homes Haus Marienfried, Haus Bethanien and Haus Tabor , a Lourdes and Fátima grotto, a Rosary and Immaculate Way and a Way of the Cross .
history
The parish of St. Martin in Pfaffenhofen and its pastor Martin Humpf made the following vows in the war year 1944 : "If the parish is spared the damage caused by the war, we will build a chapel to thank the Mother of God." This vow was made by a group of the Schoenstatt Girls' Youth picked up. Many people believe that the Virgin Mary here on 13 May 1940 on 25 April, 25 May and 25 June 1946 appeared is.
The Marienfriedkapelle or Gnadenkapelle (" Mother Thrice Miraculous and Mediator of Grace") was consecrated on May 18, 1947 with the approval of the bishop. On July 4, 1995, the Augsburg diocesan bishop Viktor Josef Dammertz named a newly built church “Maria, Mother of the Church” and established Marienfried as a church foundation. In 2010 and 2011, the Marienfriedkirche was completely rebuilt and rebuilt and inaugurated on October 23, 2011 by Bishop Konrad Zdarsa .
In 1974 a Fatima grotto was created in the southwest corner of the forest. The Lourdes Grotto was also created 30 years after the vow, in 1974; it was integrated into the prayer park in 2014. The large open air tarpaulin was erected on the festival meadow in 2000. The Way of the Cross - from the Gnadenkapelle towards the south - is the work of the sculptor Wolfgang Klein (* 1931), erected between 2000 and 2002.
Pastoral care
In addition to regular church services and light processions, there are prayer and retreat days as well as retreats in Marienfried . The youth movement Jugend 2000 occasionally holds one of its international prayer festivals there. The pilgrims' homes also offer the possibility of recreational stays, and religious articles are for sale in a pilgrimage shop.
Web links
- Homepage of the place of prayer Marienfried
- Jens Carsten: Day of Prayer: Marienfried expects thousands of believers . Augsburger Allgemeine , July 17, 2012.
- Pilgrimage sites and places of worship . Diocese of Augsburg.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Prayer Festivals: What is it? Youth 2000, accessed December 1, 2016.
Andechs Monastery Church (Andechs) | Mary in misery (Baar) | St. Benedikt (Benediktbeuern) | St. Jakobus, St. Laurentius and St. Cross (Biberbach) | Pilgrimage Church Herrgottsruh (Friedberg) | Maria Hilf on the Lechfeld (Klosterlechfeld) | Marienfried (Pfaffenhofen an der Roth) | Maria Hilf (Speiden) | To Our Lady of Sorrows (Vilgertshofen) | St. Michael (Violau) | St. Leonhard im Forst (Wessobrunn) | Wigratzbad | Maria Vesperbild (Ziemetshausen)
Coordinates: 48 ° 21 ′ 4.7 " N , 10 ° 10 ′ 35.2" E