St. Corona (Arget)

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The St. Corona chapel in Arget near Sauerlach

The St. Corona Chapel , or St. Kron or St. Kronpeth according to the old spelling, is a former Roman Catholic pilgrimage chapel in the Arget district of the municipality of Sauerlach in the Upper Bavarian district of Munich . Originally a member of the parish of St. Michael , since the merger of the parish with St. Margaret in Altkirchen and St. Andreas in Sauerlach , it has been part of the Sauerlach parish in the Ottobrunn deanery of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising .

Foundation legend and history

A first written mention of the St. Corona Chapel can be found in a file of the Hofmark Ebersberg-Taufkirchen from June 14, 1599:

"First at Gumpelzhaim there is a hilzene carved portrait ... in a bad hilzenem Hittl ... there was over 40 years."

According to legend, in 1599 a couple from Arget found an unspecified wooden picture in the local forest. The family took this wooden portrait, but miraculously returned to its place of origin without human intervention. According to tradition, a wrongdoer who once cut off the nose of the Argeter corona figure was "completely bitten off in a scuffle four weeks later." In 1648, at the site in the middle of the forest near Gumpertsham, on the initiative of Pastor Wolfgang Wohlschlager and the provost Hans Ursprenger and Lienhardt Thalhamer built a chapel, which was consecrated on September 2, 1671 by the Freising Auxiliary Bishop Caspar Kühner. As a result, Holy Mass was celebrated there up to three times a year .

Over the years, the chapel dedicated to Saint Corona has developed into a popular local pilgrimage site, especially at church fairs . These pilgrimages got so rampant, however, that the Argete pastor Kaspar Kleber worriedly noted in his notes: “The boys drink, dance and jump, fight and beat.” In 1807 the chapel was therefore torn down on his efforts. The innkeeper Georg Kögl from Oberham is said to have built a pigsty with the stones. However, this did not bring him the desired success, so he returned it for the rebuilding of the chapel in 1820.

Building history and equipment

Wooden altar with images of Saint Corona

The pilgrimage chapel St. Corona was built in 1820 and has a hipped roof with a ridge. Around 1870 the chapel was renovated inside and out and provided with a "dignified exterior and interior renovation". In the meantime privately owned, the Corona Chapel was acquired by the Church Foundation St. Michael in Arget in 1934. The chapel was last completely renovated under Pastor Willibald Glas in 1986, in particular load-bearing concrete foundations were installed, the foundation walls were drained and a new ceiling was put in. In addition, the altar, which has been badly damaged by moisture, will be restored and the previously stolen altar cross and the Way of the Cross renewed. In March 1989 the weak roof structure was reinforced, the roof was re-covered and the tower cross was gilded.

In the interior there is now a simple wooden altar as well as numerous images of Saint Corona . The inscription on the east side of the chapel reads: “Tired hiker stand still, take a rest at Sankt Corona. She piously recommended you in prayer if you have many griefs and worries. "

Motto on the east side of the chapel

Others

In the Chapel of St. Corona there are occasional devotions around May 14th , the day of the martyr's feast. On the occasion of the global corona pandemic in 2019 and 2020, the small chapel gained national recognition in some media. This moved the clergy of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Germany , Archpriest Apostolos Malamoussis and Archpriest Georgios Vletsis, to pray in the small chapel and to donate an icon of Saint Corona.

The St. Corona Chapel is listed as a monument under the list number D-1-84-141-46 in the Bavarian List of Monuments .

Web links

Commons : St. Corona (Arget)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Brigitte Meyer: News from the archive - Das Pettheisl der Korona . In: Sauerlach community (ed.): Sauerlacher community sheet . No. 5/2020 .
  2. ↑ Rudolf Moser: Help with toothache and eye pain. Church of St. Corona near Arget is being restored . Ed .: Süddeutsche Zeitung. No. 21 . Munich January 27, 1986, p. 17 .
  3. ↑ a b Michael Morosow: St. Corona, pray for us! In: sz.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 19, 2020, accessed on March 27, 2020 .
  4. ^ Karl Hobmair: Hachinger Heimatbuch . Oberhaching 1979.
  5. ↑ a b Tanja Bergold: The Corona Chapel in the Sauerlach Parish Association. Pastor promises annual petition for health. In: mk-online.de. Sankt Michaelsbund, March 26, 2020, accessed on March 27, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Information board in the anteroom of the chapel .
  7. ↑ a b So that the virus doesn't turn into a game of chance. Holy Corona help! In: Domradio.de. Bildungswerk der Erzdiözese Köln eV, March 7, 2020, accessed on March 27, 2020 .
  8. ↑ a b Manfred Wöll: Holy Corona help! Hiking visit to the Corona Chapel near Sauerlach. In: br.de. Bayerischer Rundfunk, March 20, 2020, accessed on March 27, 2020 .
  9. ↑ a b Torn by palm trees. In: sz.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 25, 2020, accessed on March 20, 2020 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 56 ′ 7.6 ″  N , 11 ° 37 ′ 31 ″  E