Quinau pilgrimage
The Quinau pilgrimage goes back to a legendary event that is said to have occurred in the Bohemian Ore Mountains near the town of Quinau ( Květnov ) on September 4, 1342. The pilgrimage takes place today in Květnov and in Trutzhain in northern Hesse .
The legend
According to a legend, a boy named Joseph tended sheep. Once the boy cursed the cattle out of displeasure. Then a voice rang: "Joseph, stop your anger, you are offending my son Jesus." The boy was frightened. He saw a picture of Mary in a rock niche, fell on his knees and asked for forgiveness. Then he built of stones and shrubs a shrine around the statue and performed there every day his devotion .
He kept silent about his experience for a long time. During an illness he shared his experience in delirium. The boy expressed the wish to be carried up the mountain to the statue of Mary. The farmer who employed the boy then took the picture of Mary home with him. But soon the statue was gone. After a long search, the image was found at the previous location. The farmer took it back home and the incident repeated itself. The remaining villagers were made aware of the event.
They wanted to build a chapel in the village. But the building material disappeared and was found up on the hill again. The people saw it as a hint from God and so the chapel on the mountain was built with the permission of the landowner Count Gallus Babelus von Lobkowitz.
Pilgrimage church
At the end of the 16th century, the congregation celebrated the first sacrifice in the church. In 1674 the nave was enlarged and an organ was added to the chapel, and ten years later she added the tower. The outside staircase with steps corresponding to the number of " Ave Maria " on a rosary was laid out in 1749. The Queen of Heaven is venerated in a niche in the high altar. This place is identical to the place where it was found. Since these events, the pilgrimage has been celebrated in Quinau.
The expulsion during and after the Second World War changed the Quinau pilgrimage. In addition to the pilgrimage in Quinau, the Quinau pilgrimage also established itself in Trutzhain in northern Hesse. If the pilgrimage in the two places was initially a document of the separation of Europe and the Cold War, after the unification of Europe it is united by a common history and a common belief.
Quinau pilgrimage in Trutzhain
Since 1949/1950 , the Quinau pilgrimage has been celebrated in Trutzhain on the first Sunday in July on the feast of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary . Refugees and expellees from Silesia , East Prussia , West Prussia , Pomerania , the Sudetenland and other areas in the east found a new home in the former prisoner-of-war camp STALAG IX A Ziegenhain from 1948 onwards . A village developed from the prisoner of war camp. The settlement became the first industrial area in the old district of Ziegenhain and in 1951 Hesse's youngest political municipality.
Displaced people from Komotau who came to the Schwalm-Eder district had already brought the pilgrimage to Trutzhain at the time of the refugee settlement and before the village was founded. During this time Franz Pescheck had his first Madonna carved for Trutzhain in Bavaria. This was carried during processions from Neukirchen (Knüll) to Trutzhain.
Initially housed in a barrack church, the pilgrimage church Maria Hilf was built in 1964/1965 in the form of a tent. The shape of the church should be reminiscent of the Trinity of God. The tent stands as a symbol for being on the move through life and is intended to remind of the pilgrim people of Israel in the first covenant as well as the fate of the builders.
In 1987, the Trutzhain community took a second Madonna into their care from the Komotau home district. The wood carver Anton Reinelt from Komotau created the miraculous image of the pregnant Madonna (mater gravida) for Trutzhain. It shows the baby Jesus in the belly of Mary, the mother of God.
Due to the displaced pilgrims, contacts between the Trutzhain parishes and the local parishes developed early on. After the fall of the borders in 1990 displaced people made a pilgrimage to Quinau and then to Trutzhain for pilgrimages. In 2005 a youth group from the Komotau district visited Trutzhain for the first time. In 2008 the pastor from Quinau took part in the pilgrimage in Trutzhain for the first time with the pastor RD Mgr. Miroslav Dvouletý from Görkau (Jirkov).
The pilgrimage in Trutzhain is the only pilgrimage in Northern Hesse and the central event of the Schwalm Catholics. The place Trutzhain is a place of pilgrimage and the Maria Hilf Church is recognized by canon law as a pilgrimage church.
In 2006 the Catholic parish association Maria Hilf, Schwalmstadt was established. The association was named Maria Hilf in honor of the Mother of God, who is venerated in the Trutzhain pilgrimage church. It consists of four Catholic parish offices and three pastoral care offices in the old district of Ziegenhain, including the Catholic parish office of Maria Hilf Schwalmstadt-Trutzhain.
In 2008, students from the Kassel Werkakademie für Gestaltung designed chasuble vestments for the Quinau pilgrimage in Trutzhain. Six vestments were created in the project work, one for the main celebrant and five vestments for the concelebrants. After an internal student competition, a jury decided in favor of Carolin Bescherer's design. This was further refined as a basis. The fabrics for the robes were made by the Trutzhain weaving mill Rudolf Egelkraut, while Ingeborg Bechstedt (Lohfelden) sewed the robes. The project was supported professionally by the textile designer Reimer Hennings (Kassel) and theologically by Pastor Diethelm Vogel. For the Quinau pilgrimage on July 6, 2008, the vestments were consecrated by the Fulda auxiliary bishop Karlheinz Diez, who was the first to wear the robe of the main celebrant. At the 11th Hessian Design Award , the vestments were among the best works in the competition and were shown in the exhibition of the Design Award in Kassel, Wiesbaden and Wetzlar. The vestments are documented in the exhibition catalog.
The foundation of the monastery by the Order of the Oblates Maria Immaculata ( OMI ) in Schwalmstadt-Ziegenhain in 2009 can be traced back to the pilgrimage in Trutzhain.
Publications
- "Quinauer Pilgrimage in Trutzhain", Catholic Parish Curate Maria Hilf, Trutzhain, self-published 2003, 64 pages
- "Kalte Heimat - The history of the German expellees after 1945", Andreas Kossert , Siedler-Verlag, Munich, 2008, ISBN 978-3-88680-861-8 , 431 pages
- "Now praise should ring out", pilgrimage book, Bonifatiuswerk der Deutschen Katholiken, Paderborn 2006, 200 pages
- "Chronik Trutzhain 1951 - 2001" Rudolf Filtz, Aribert Ley, Horst Munk, Wolfgang Scholz, Christian Steidl, self-published, 2001, publisher: Stadt Schwalmstadt, bound, 270 pages
- "...arrived!" Distributed from the Sudetenland-Recorded in North Hesse-United in the European Union, HW & M. Gömpel Helmut Preußler Verlag, Nuremberg, ISBN 978-3-934679-54-2 , 2nd edition 2016, 500 pp.
- "Old and New Art", Association for Christian Art in the Dioceses of the Church Province Paderborn eV, Paderborn, Volume 47, 2012, 160 pages, www.verein-christliche-kunst.de
