St. Katharina (Wallersberg)
The Katharinenkapelle in Wallersberg is a Catholic chapel that was the destination of many pilgrimages until the Reformation . It was given its current appearance around 1700. The small rectangular nave with a retracted, just closed, square choir dates from the 14th century. The chapel has a roof turret and is lavishly furnished. She stands in the middle of a loose circle of linden trees .
The reason for visiting the chapel on pilgrimages was a healing spring that is said to have sprung from under it in earlier centuries. There are several legends and stories about the drying up of the spring. In one of them, a Swedish soldier allegedly contaminated the spring with mercury during the Thirty Years' War . Another tells that the reason was a woman who had not yet been blessed and who drank water there. A third legend reports that Saint Catherine withdrew the healing power from the spring or let it dry up because the Wallersbergers sold the water for money. They are said to have humbly built the chapel at this point.
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literature
- Jutta Böhm: Mill bike tour. Routes: Kleinziegenfelder Tal and Bärental , Weismain environmental station in the Lichtenfels district, Weismain / Lichtenfels (Lichtenfels district), 2000, 52 pages (numerous illustrations, canton)
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Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 54.6 ″ N , 11 ° 12 ′ 58.3 ″ E