Marienklause
Marienklause is the name of a small chapel built by Martin Achleitner in 1866 in the Munich district of Untergiesing-Harlaching . The hermitage and the way of the cross are registered as architectural monuments in the Bavarian monument list.
location
The building made of Nagelfluh rock and spruce and birch wood , set on the steep slope of the banks of the Isar, is located on the eastern bank of the river at the height of the southern end of Hellabrunn Zoo .
The Marienklause can be reached on the footpath and bike path running parallel to the Isar from the Thalkirchner Brücke to the north or from the Großhesseloher Brücke from the south . From the eastern high bank of the Isar, a steep serpentine path leads down to the chapel, coming from the raft landing on the western bank you can get there via the Marienklausensteg .
history
Martin Achleitner was the water master of the Auer Mühlbach lock located at this point . He built the chapel himself and donated it to Our Lady as a thank you for "saving him from death several times" (in his opinion she saved him from both the floods of the Isar and from falling rocks on the steep slope). Below the chapel rises the small Jakobsquelle, which was captured by Achleitner and integrated into the ensemble, on both sides of the spring grotto, small caves with devotional images and candles decorate the substructure of the chapel, which is often decorated with fresh flowers and burning candles and after several renovations good condition. In the direction of the river, there is an open courtyard below with stone stations of the cross and an open-air altar under trees. It was also Achleitner who built the first serpentine paths in this area of the Isar slope, for which he also built retaining walls and viaducts along the rock face from Nagelfluh. At the time of construction, all of Harlaching consisted only of the St. Anna Church a little further north up on the edge of the slope, the Gutshof neighboring St. Anna (today the Harlachinger Einkehr restaurant ) and a few outbuildings; the Harlachinger castle was burned down in 1796 and stood as a ruin empty. The Marienklause is still a popular destination for Mary processions , especially during May devotions , and the little church is looked after by the Catholic deanery in Harlaching / Giesing.
At the level of the Marienklause an architecturally interesting pedestrian bridge, the Marienklausensteg , leads over the Isar to the dam of the Isar-Werkkanal . At the Marienklause just below the bridge, a weir with a raft slide, first built in 1330, dams the Isar water. The Auer Mühlbach has been diverted from the Isar Canal on the western side of the river at the bridge lock since 1906 and passed under the Isar in a culvert , the course of which can be seen on the edge of the waterfall. A few meters north of the Marienklause it reappears on the border with the zoo.
literature
- Peter Klimesch: Isar lust. Discoveries in Munich . München.Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 9783937090474
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments for Munich (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, monument number D-1-62-000-6218
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 5 '31.9 " N , 11 ° 33' 5.8" E