Nantovinus

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According to legend, Nantovinus (also Conrad Nantwein or Nantwin (us) ; † around 1286 in Wolfratshausen ) was a pious pilgrim who suffered a martyr's death. He is venerated as a saint and his feast day is August 7th .

Life

Late Romanesque sandstone relief of St. Nantovinus in St. Nantwein

Nothing is reported about the origin and occupation of Nantovinus. According to tradition, the pilgrim came to Wolfratshausen by horse on a pilgrimage to Rome in 1286 . When the incumbent judge Ganter learned that the pilgrim had allegedly seduced an underage boy into fornication in a hostel, he had the stranger captured and brought to Wolfratshausen Castle . Meanwhile the judge noticed that Nantovinus was carrying a considerable amount of money. To get hold of it, he sentenced him to death at the stake without questioning any witnesses . In Stadler's full Holy lexicon of 1858 states that the judge wanted to come into the possession of his beautiful horse.

According to legend, the convict was asked where he wanted to be cremated. Thereupon he took off the button of his pilgrim's staff and threw it over the Loisach , with the words "Where this falls down, my place of execution should be". The church of St. Nantwein stands at this point today . He is said to have been burned there.

Miracles soon began to take place in the place of martyrdom . For example, it was reported that the judge's blind horse could see Ganter again after a piece of bone from the ashes of the burned martyr was held in front of his eyes. The remaining bones were kept in a small church built in honor of the martyr, which was erected at the place of execution only a few years later. The skull and a pilgrim's bottle of the saint were also kept. Because of the wonderful events, pilgrims brought about, and Pope Boniface VIII. To the year 1297 Saints have taken from Nantovinus. .

St. Nantwein Church

Due to the onslaught of pilgrims, the baroque church of St. Nantwein, which still exists today, was built in 1624 on the same site .

To finance the war chest, the relics, now in silver , had to be handed over to the state in 1801. After several changes of ownership, the brainshell finally came into the possession of a person from Munich in 1928. He gave it to the Munich City Museum , where it is still located today. However, the pilgrim's bottle has been lost to this day.

The Wolfratshausen district of Nantwein , where the event is said to have taken place, was named after this. Portraits of Nantovinus depict his death by burning or a pilgrim in chains. He is also shown in the theater version of Kaspar from Brandner .

literature

  • Gabriele Rüth, Sabrina Schwenger (Eds.): Nantwein - A Legend - Many Stories, 2006.
  • City of Wolfratshausen: Heimatbuch - Wolfratshausen 2002, published for the 1000th anniversary in 2003.

Web links

  • Nantwein (on the website of the Historisches Verein Wolfratshausen e.V.)

swell

  1. ^ Nantwein von Wolfratshausen in the Ecumenical Saint Lexicon
  2. ↑ Bernhard Reisner: History and stories from Nantwein: Nantovinus - the legend. (PDF; 127 kB) Historischer Verein Wolfratshausen e. V. / Wolfratshausen City Archives, 2005, accessed on September 6, 2012 .
  3. ^ Nantovinus, p . In: Johann E. Stadler , Franz Joseph Heim, Johann N. Ginal (Eds.): Complete Lexicon of Saints ... , Volume 4 (M – P), B. Schmid'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (A. Manz), Augsburg 1875, pp.  511-512 .
personal data
SURNAME Nantovinus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nant wine; Nantwin; Nantwinus; Conrad Nantwein; Conrad Nantwin; Conrad Nantwinus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pilgrim, saint
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH around 1286
Place of death Wolfratshausen