St. Ottilien (Freiburg im Breisgau)
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St. Ottilien is a forest sanctuary in the Waldsee district of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau . It is located at a height of 480 m in a clearing in the upper St.-Ottilien-Dobel of the Freiburg city forest, south of the Roßkopf , and is one of the oldest pilgrimage destinations in Germany.
The chapel is dedicated to St. Odilia . Saint Odilia is usually depicted with an abbess's staff and a book with two or three eyes on it, an indication that she was born blind and is supposed to help with eye problems. The church was originally built next to a spring whose radon-containing water is said to provide relief from eye problems.
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The area was connected in 1885 by a road (car-free) coming from Kanonenplatz on the Schlossberg , another connection has existed since 1903 via a footpath that runs a little lower parallel to the road. It can also be reached on a road that branches off from Kartäuserstraße to the east of the Kartaus . A Way of the Cross with eight Calvary chapels, Stationenweg called branches in the lower part of the driveway and through the St. Ottilien-Dobel steeply to the chapel and to the inn.
history
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The origins of the pilgrimage are between the 7th and 13th centuries; it reached a climax in the 16th century. The place of pilgrimage is documented in writing for the first time in a document from 1428 (kept in the Freiburg Minster Archives) and then in another document from 1456 (Freiburg City Archives).
The first chapel stood at this point around 679 (information board in the well chapel). A new chapel was built around 1100. In 1503, the Freiburg councilor Peter Sprung and his wife Elisabeth Zehenderin donated the new construction of the Ottilienkirche, the consecration took place in 1505. Several wars damaged the church badly, during the Thirty Years War it was plundered several times by the Swedes from 1632. In 1648 it was repaired again. The altar structures were built in 1663/64. During the siege of Freiburg by the Duke of Villars in 1713, it was so destroyed that it had to be largely rebuilt in 1714. In doing so, it was enlarged to the west and the previously free-standing source of Odilien was integrated into the building with a design as a grotto , so that it is accessible to visitors via the church. The last restoration took place in 1966/1967. Valuable medieval frescoes were uncovered, of which nothing was known for a long time and until then.
In 1770, Emperor Joseph II in Vienna ordered the closure of all side churches and chapels and the abolition of hermitages and forest shrines. The closure of the Freiburg forest sanctuaries of St. Ottilien, St. Wendelin , St. Valentin and the Loretto Chapel was averted. Its closure was ordered in 1785 by an imperial decree . The goods of the chapels were to be given to the parish of Horben in 1788 . The protest of the citizens was successful: In 1791 the decision was made that St. Ottilien could be reopened and the other chapels were also preserved. With reference to this decree, the attempted closure by the Baden government in 1807 could be averted. The new brother house was built in 1885/86 and in 1889 today's inn was built to replace the previous building that had burned down.
In 2015–2017 the chapel was renovated at a cost of 1.3 million euros, the costs were borne by the Catholic Church Community as a whole, supplemented by donations and grants. The renovation of the roof structure alone took a year. Since the chapel is always humid due to the spring, it has automated ventilation through the windows and the new church stalls have heated seat cushions.
Furnishing
inner space
In the choir three are baroque - altars of 1663/64, the pulpit is from 1753. The 1966/67 exposed frescoes from the early 16th century show the patrons of the chapel Saint Odile, Lucia and Jodokus and scenes around Anna and Joachim , the parents of Mary.
organ
In 2017 the church also received a new organ. It is a Bohemian positive that the Wegscheider organ workshop in Dresden made in 2007. It has found a place in the choir of the church near the altar. The instrument has a manual with six registers in the following disposition :
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Bell jar
The chapel has no tower, just a roof turret . Here, a 58 kg bronze bell hangs in a historic wooden belfry , which was made in 1892 by the Freiburg bell founder Johann Baptist Koch and which is tuned to the a ° strike note. It is rung by hand.
Ownership
The pilgrimage chapel is owned by the Freiburg Minster Parish. In 1964 the inn passed from the Catholic parish of Maria-Hilf in Freiburg to the property of the Archdiocese. Until 1953 it belonged to the city of Freiburg. The eight Kreuzweg chapels belong to the Münsterfabrikfonds and are maintained by the entire parish of Freiburg.
proof
- ↑ Peter Kalchthaler, Badische Zeitung, May 5, 2008
- ↑ Information board in the chapel
- ^ Simone Lutz: Simple and beautiful - Freiburg - Badische Zeitung. Badische Zeitung, July 15, 2017, accessed on July 15, 2017 .
- ^ Organs in Freiburg , accessed on September 30, 2017
- ^ Website Wegscheider, Opusliste p. 17 , accessed on May 15, 2019
- ^ Organ Concerts Freiburg Minster - Organ in St. Ottilien , accessed on September 30, 2017
- ↑ Bell inspection of the Archdiocese of Freiburg - Catholic Chapel St. Ottilien in Freiburg
- ^ Franz Kern: The Dreisamtal with its chapels and pilgrimages . Schillinger, Freiburg 1985, p. 16.
literature
- Karl Bannwarth: St. Ottilien, St. Wendelin, St. Valentin. Three near the city of Freiburg i. Br. Forest sanctuaries . Commission publishing house of the Charitas printing company, Freiburg 1905
- Franz Nowacki (Ed.): Pilgrimage Church of St. Ottilien near Freiburg im Breisgau . Herder, Freiburg 1970
- Franz Kern : The Dreisamtal with its chapels and pilgrimages . Schillinger, Freiburg 1985, ISBN 389-155-019-7
- Peter Kalchthaler : Pilgrimage chapel St. Ottilien near Freiburg im Breisgau. Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2019, ISBN 978-3-95976-194-9
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 0 '11.1 " N , 7 ° 53' 57.3" E