Remseder pilgrimage

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The high altar in Remsede with the statue of St. Anthony on the left

The Remseder pilgrimage takes place annually on the second weekend in July at the St. Antonius Church in Remsede . The pilgrims then move to Bundesstrasse 51 to join the Telgter pilgrimage .

history

The pilgrimage to St. Antonius in Remsede probably originated in pre-Christian times. It is believed that it goes back to Germanic folk festivals with a religious character, which were later reshaped by Christianity and thus taken over in Christian times. The abbot Maurus Rost notes that in earlier times a “festive procession of piety” took place in Remsede to keep epidemics away. During the great plague epidemic of the Middle Ages , the Remseder pilgrimage experienced an upswing. It is reported that even streams of pilgrims from Cologne came to Remsede. In 1504 the bishop of Münster and formerly of Osnabrück, Konrad IV. , Allowed the image of St. Anthony of Remsede to be carried in a procession through the parishes of Hilter , Bad Laer , Glandorf and Glane and granted the pilgrims an indulgence of forty Days. In the course of the Reformation, which mainly divided the Diocese of Osnabrück in two, the pilgrimages to Remsede decreased. Around 1705, only one patronage festival, which took place four times a year, is reported. Eventually the pilgrimage to Remsede ceased completely.

On June 4, 1991 some pilgrims got involved with the idea of ​​revitalizing the old pilgrimage to and from Remsede. Every year they invited the communion children to a pilgrimage. From this a non-profit association developed in Remsede, in which 140 families from the village have become members. This is how the oldest pilgrimage in the Osnabrück diocese started up again.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Jostes : Pre-Christian antiquities in Gau Suderberge (Iburg) , Münster 1888 p. 8
  2. ↑ KH Neufeld, Remsede, a famous medieval pilgrimage site, in: Bad Laer (series: Suderberger Hefte No. 6), Bad Laer 1985, p. 64
  3. ↑ Bernhard Nonte, Remsede, Mettingen 1985, p. 34.
  4. ↑ KH Neufeld, Remsede, a famous medieval pilgrimage site, in: Bad Laer (series: Suderberger Hefte No. 6), Bad Laer 1985, p. 66.
  5. ↑ Osnabrück newspaper from June 1, 2011

Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′ 6.1 ″  N , 7 ° 47 ′ 10.1 ″  E