Svatá Apolena

St. Apollonia around 1764

Ruins of the Church of Saint Apollonia

Svatá Apolena (German St. Apollonia ) is a desert on the corridors of the city of Přimda (Pfraumberg) in the Czech Republic .

geography

Svatá Apolena (St. Apollonia) is located one and a half kilometers southwest of Málkov (Molgau) on the road from Přimda (Pfraumberg) to Nová Ves (Neudorf) .

history

The settlement of St. Apollonia consisted of five houses and two churches in 1838. After the abolition of patrimonial St. Apollonia / Svatá Apolonia formed from 1850 a district of the municipality Molgau in the judicial district of Pfraumberg and Pilsener Kreis. From 1868 St. Apollonia belonged to the Tachau district . The Czech place name Svatá Apolena was introduced in 1924. In 1930, 36 residents lived in four houses in the settlement belonging to the municipality of Molgau.

Svatá Apolena (St. Apollonia) belonged to the Kingdom of Bohemia as part of Austria-Hungary until the end of the First World War in 1918 . After the collapse of the dual monarchy, it belonged to Czechoslovakia . In the Munich Agreement , the place was added to the German Reich and until 1945 belonged to the Tachau district in the so-called Sudetenland . After the Second World War in 1945 , the German residents were expelled on the basis of the Beneš decrees .

In 1948 it was incorporated into Přimda (Pfraumberg) . In the 1950s, the place went out.

Local division

Svatá Apolena is part of the Málkov u Přimdy cadastral district.

church

In the 13th century there is said to have been a church on the site of the St. Apollonia Chapel, which is said to have died after the Hussite Wars.

The history of the church, which is now in ruins, began in 1669. In August 1669, the blind blacksmith Bartholomäus Fickh, who lived in Haider Spital, dreamed of regaining his eyesight. This would happen if he went to the “old desert chapel” near Molgau with prayer and sacrifice . The next day Fickh made a pilgrimage with his wife to the ruined chapel, prayed and made an offering. Then he wanted to draw water from the Gromaid's Well , but the well-known spring could not be found. Fickh scratched a small depression with his hands next to the chapel, from which water came out shortly afterwards. He drank and washed his eyes. At the same moment Fickh heard a little daylight. After another pilgrimage, eight days later, Fickh washed his eyes again and became fully sighted. The pastor Adam Crautner, the mayor Johann Strickher and the church father Georg Trompeter from Pfraumberg testified the healing. The news spread quickly. After the Pfraumberg innkeeper Sebaldus Hopfer visited the chapel with an eye disease, washed his eyes with the spring water and was also cured, he had the spring expanded and a well built. Little by little, more and more people flocked to St. Apollonia to ask for their suffering to be healed. Count Georg von Lindelo then had the well bricked up and given a roof. The chapel has also been restored. During the work, a crypt was found which, according to stories, contained a woman's body.

The oldest written mention of the chapel from 1698 is contained in the Pfraumberg trauma register, when the Pfraumberg citizen Christopher Lang married in the chapel. 1709 is in the same register of the "Holy Well" in connection with St. Apollonia.

Count von Lindelo installed his own priest in the church and decorated the church. The St. Apollonia Church became the most important place of pilgrimage in the region and gained great wealth. A large number of miracles were described in a church memorabilia book that has not survived today . The last entry is said to be from 1764.

In the 20th century, the importance of pilgrimages to St. Apollonia decreased, only on Whit Monday there was a pilgrimage.

literature

• Heimatkreis Tachau e. V. (Ed.): Home Atlas of the former Tachau-Pfraumberg district.
• Köferl, Josef: The political district of Tachau (1890), new edition 1985.
• Schlögl, Ludwig: "Our home Molgau with St. Apollonia", Landshut 1987.

Web links

Commons : Church of Saint Apollonia in Svatá Apolena  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 38 '  N , 12 ° 40'  E