Old Mother of God house

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The old Madonna's house
Old and new house of Our Lady

The old Madonna's house is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage chapel in Düren . The chapel belongs to the parish of St. Lukas Düren and is entered in the list of architectural monuments in Düren under number 1/37 .

location

The pilgrimage chapel is located on a small hill southeast of the city center on Zülpicher Straße . Today the federal highway 56 runs in the immediate vicinity . The old Mother of God House is one of the few historically valuable buildings in Düren. The new Mother of God House is right next to the chapel .

history

The chapel was first mentioned in a document on November 20, 1420. In a document book of the city of Düren there is talk of a farmland sale “located tusschen thistleroide and our vrauwen huysgin” (located between Distelrath and our women's house). It was initially called the Holy House or the Marienkapelle . The exact year of construction of the old Mother of God House is still unknown today. Presumably the Carmelites from the monastery in Düren were the builders of the church. Since the Geldrian feud of 1543 it has been called the Mother of God House . The Carmelites set up a Way of the Cross from the Carmelite Church on Bonner Strasse to the Little Mother of God House . At Easter 2007 this processional way was reactivated by crosses embedded in the sidewalk . Only the fourth station on the Sturmsberg ( Frankenstrasse ) remains of the old processional path .

In 1543 the old chapel burned down, in 1719 it was supposedly expanded and covered in 1794. In 1822 the Düren carter Heinrich Weyermann rebuilt the chapel at his own expense. The floor space is 3.75 m × 8.25 m. In 1913, Professor Wilhelm Albermann created a group of mountains of olives with life-size figures made of Savonier stone.

In 1895, the much larger new Madonna's house was built right next to the chapel, as the old chapel could no longer accommodate the many believers.

The pilgrimage to the veneration of Mary began here as early as the Middle Ages . The veneration of Anna in Düren should also be seen in this context. When the Annahaupt came to Düren in 1501, the city had become an important place of pilgrimage.

The parish of St. Anna owned the chapel until October 1963, when it became the property of the parish of St. Joseph . Since the merger of Düren's inner city parishes in 2010, both the old and the new little Mother of God house belong to the parish of St. Lukas.

The legend about the old Mother of God house

There are several legends about the origins of the chapel. The best known in Düren is the one with the oxen .

When the black plague raged in Düren in the Middle Ages , the people of Düren promised that when the plague stopped, they would build a chapel at one point. The place should be where a team of oxen that was driven out of the city stopped. That was where the old Mother of God house stands today.

Pilgrimage

During the pilgrimage season, May to October, the miraculous image Consolatrix Afflictorum ( Comforter of the Afflicted ), a painting from 1880, hangs in the new Mother of God house next door. It was painted by Adam Siepen with his foot and depicts Mary with the baby Jesus in his arms. In October 2006 the picture was restored. On April 30, the eve of the pilgrimage, the miraculous image of the Consolatrix Afflictorum (Comforter of the Afflicted) is carried in a solemn procession from the Church of St. Joseph to the new Mother of God house and remains there for worship until the end of October.

The chapels are still the destination of many believers today. In the strongest pilgrimage month of May, up to 5,000 visitors arrive and in the chapel.

literature

  • Manfred Mende: The Mother of God House in Düren. Self-published, Düren 2000, ISBN 3-00-006004-9 .

Web links

Commons : Madonna's House  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Madonna's house. City of Düren, accessed on November 5, 2016 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 21.8 "  N , 6 ° 30 ′ 10.7"  E