St. Maria (Eldern)

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Chapel of St. Maria in Eldern

The Roman Catholic Chapel of St. Maria is located in Eldern , a district of Ottobeuren in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria . The chapel is a listed building.

history

Memorial stone of the Elder pilgrimage at the chapel in Eldern

The first building at this point was a wooden chapel that was erected when a miraculous image was found. This chapel was consecrated in 1487. The abbot Matthäus Ackermann of the Ottobeuren monastery had a new chapel built in 1506. The sisters of the Franciscan convent in Memmingen , who were expelled during the Memmingen Reformation from 1535 to 1537, found refuge in an attached monastery. On April 10, 1685 the foundation stone was laid for a larger monastery and for a large pilgrimage church on May 8, 1702. The previous church was built by Jakob Zindt and Christian Anton Weber according to plans by Christoph Vogt until 1710. In 1806 this pilgrimage church was demolished. The high altar of this pilgrimage church is now in the parish church of St. Georg in Böhen . The now existing chapel was built in 1932 in place of the previous pilgrimage church.

Pilgrimage

The pilgrimage church from 1710, demolished in 1806

According to an old tradition, a miraculous image was found there, after which a farmer from Reuthen built a wooden chapel. After the pilgrimages began in 1466, the wooden chapel soon had to give way to a new building, as many believers flocked to the miraculous image. Eldern became the most visited place of pilgrimage in the diocese of Augsburg . For this reason, the chapel was expanded again and again and later a new pilgrimage church was built. The regional administration in Ulm closed the monastery on December 1, 1803 and banned the pilgrimage. After the pilgrimage church was demolished, the image of grace was given to the Ordinariate in Augsburg. It is now in the Alexander Altar of the Ottobeuren basilica . The altar is also called the Elder Altar. To commemorate the Elden pilgrimage, a chapel was built in 1932, which was equipped with a baroque altar in 1984. Every year on Whit Monday there is a procession from the basilica to the Eldernkapelle. Our Lady is to return to her place of origin for one day . Together with the Ottobeuren music band, the community marches to Eldern with prayers and chants. In the evening the statue of Our Lady is brought back to the basilica.

Furnishing

The altarpiece shows Our Lady of Eldern and dates from the 18th century. There are four putti around the altar , also from the 18th century.

See also

literature

  • Tilmann Breuer : City and District of Memmingen . Ed .: Heinrich Kreisel and Adam Horn. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 99 .
  • Hermann Haisch (Ed.): Landkreis Unterallgäu . Memminger Zeitung Verlagsdruckerei GmbH, Memmingen 1987, ISBN 3-9800649-2-1 , p. 1188-1989 .

Web links

Commons : St. Mary  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-186-40 ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / geodaten.bayern.de
  2. ↑ a b Tilmann Breuer; Heinrich Kreisel and Adam Horn (eds.): City and district of Memmingen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 99

Coordinates: 47 ° 55 '32.85 "  N , 10 ° 18' 27.36"  O