Marienkapelle Hünkesohl
The Marienkapelle Hünkesohl near Drolshagen ( Olpe district , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a regional place of pilgrimage and prayer. The Hünkesohl chapel owes its existence to Theresia Berg (1861–1929).
The legend has it that Theresa Berg a crumpled herding or wood Get a gust Marienbildchen have blown over. She pinned this picture to a tree with her hairpin in order to pray here from now on. Before the First World War , she replaced the paper picture with a simple figure of Mary . During the World War, other Drolshagen residents accepted the hidden place of private Marian veneration and wandered with their worries into the forest of Hünkesohl. The initially very intimate site was not forgotten.
During the war, August Bone, a local soldier, vowed to expand and maintain the place of prayer in Hünkesohl if he could see his home again in good health. As early as 1919, a number of young men built a thatched chapel from birch trunks and set up benches on the hillside. August Bone looked after the plant well into his old age.
When the chapel became rotten, the parish and the city concerned themselves with maintaining it. In 1954 the Kolping Family built a new chapel out of massive tree trunks. The spruce trees, which have grown to an impressive size, have been preserved; the access possibilities have been improved.
The entrance gate to the small forest area greets visitors with the inscription "Greetings to Mary in quiet forest solitude".
Web links
- Parish Drolshagen: In quiet forest solitude - The Hünkesohl forest chapel
- City of Drolshagen: The Hünkesohl forest chapel
- Drolshagen Marketing: Hünkeshohl Forest Chapel
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 56.1 ″ N , 7 ° 45 ′ 48.6 ″ E