Osterbrünnl Chapel
The Osterbrünnl Chapel is a Catholic pilgrimage chapel near Ruhmannsfelden in the Regen district . It is located about one kilometer southeast of the town center on the edge of the Teisnach valley. It takes its name from the Osterbrünnl , a spring south of it.
history
The chapel is mentioned for the first time around 1753 in the files of the Episcopal Ordinariate Regensburg in relation to its rebuilding. As a result, Abbot Wilhelm II of the Gotteszell Monastery had an earlier chapel burned down about twenty years earlier because it had been built without permission.
At that time, the Ruhmannsfelden market belonged to the manor of the monastery. The market looked in vain to get permission for a new building from the diocese of Regensburg . The miraculous image of that time , a statue of the Virgin Mary in Altötting , was brought to the monastery after the chapel was destroyed, where it remained in Bavaria until the secularization .
After the abolition of the monastery, the citizens of Ruhmannsfelden built a new wooden chapel, which Pastor Castenauer gave permission in 1810 with the permission of the bishop. However, by order of the Viechtach district judge, it had to be torn down again, and the miraculous image was taken to the parish church.
Soon after, negotiations began to build a larger stone chapel. On July 1st, 1820 the parish church in Ruhmannsfelden burned down. It is believed that the original image of grace was also lost. On July 28, 1821, parish provisional Deischl von Regensburg received permission to use the newly built chapel, which now served as a replacement church for some time.
In 1957 the episcopal permission was given to consecrate the chapel after renovation under the title Maria, Mediator of Grace and to celebrate the chapel's patronage feast on May 31st every year. In 1966 a small niche for a Madonna was added to the north side of the chapel.
art
The chapel has a rococo altar from around 1740. The altarpiece is a representation of Mariahilf . In front of it is the image of grace, which is only 30 centimeters high. The depiction, which was probably made in the 18th century, shows Mary with child in an angel wreath. This wooden figure was stolen in August 1947, but sent back to the Ruhmannsfelden parish by post in August 1948. On September 5, 1948, she was ceremoniously brought back to the chapel. In 1957 the oil painting was removed from the altar and the miraculous image was installed there, but the painting is now back on the altar. It is flanked by the Saints Laurentius and Wolfgang . Other figures show the Archangel Michael and the Guardian Angel . Some votive pictures have also been preserved.
A Way of the Cross with 14 stations starts from the chapel . It was consecrated on November 25, 1877, and the pictures were renewed several times. The death boards were previously on the back wall of the chapel and were placed around a cross when the chapel was expanded in 1966. This is the old cemetery cross from the cemetery near the parish church, which was dissolved in 1960.
The legend
In his book Niederbayerische Sagen, Michael Waltinger reports a legend about the origin of the pilgrimage, which can also be found with small deviations in the Regensburg Marienkalender . Accordingly, on Easter day in 1660, the Bruckhof farmer's boy looking after his herd of cattle on the Teisnach saw a small statue of Our Lady, which, surrounded by a beam of light, moved upstream. The guardian boy took the statue out of the water, but suddenly when it was being carried it became so heavy that he had to put it down. A spring was created there in which he washed his sick foot, which was immediately healed.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 58 ′ 35.8 " N , 12 ° 59 ′ 4.7" E