Thalkirchner raftsman pilgrimage
The Thalkirchner Flößerwallfahrt is a historical pilgrimage to the Church of St. Maria in the Munich district of Thalkirchen . The raftsmen on the Isar thank you for a successful season and ask for accident-free trips. The pilgrimage was revived after a long break in 1990 and has been taking place every five years since 1993.
Isar raftsman
For centuries, rafting on the Isar was an essential means of transport for goods to and from Munich. The first report dates from the end of the 7th century and relates to the transport of the body of Saint Emmeram . In 1310 the first surviving raft regulations of the city of Munich were issued. Luxury goods came from Italy across the Alps and from Lenggries on the waterway. Above all, however, building materials such as wood, lime and stones for foundations were transported on rafts from the Oberland . There were also agricultural products. For passenger transport, the so-called Ordinari rafts ran according to the timetable from Bad Tölz to Passau and Vienna, where they had connections to Budapest and beyond. The transport rafts decreased sharply around 1900, but at the latest they ended with the drafting of the raftsmen for military service in the First World War .
Pleasure trips from Bad Tölz to Munich began before 1900 and were the only raft trips on the Isar after the First and again after the Second World War .
Pilgrimage
Rafting was a dangerous business. The chronicles are full of accounts of accidents and occasionally salvations. The patron saints of the raftsmen were Saint Nicholas , who once brought grain by boat as a bishop in a famine, and Johannes Nepomuk , the bridge saint because of the special danger that bridges and other hydraulic structures posed for rafting. In honor of St. Nepomuk it became a tradition to go on a Midsummer raft trip with decorated rafts around his name day on May 16 and to ask for a blessing from the pastor.
The raftsmen on Isar and Loisach also organized such a Midsummer raft trip as a pilgrimage to Maria-Thalkirchen. St. Maria in Thalkirchen was the traditional goal of Marian veneration by the rafters, because the Thalkirchen raids were the last obstacle before the raft lands in Munich. That is why the raftsmen traditionally docked at the church for a short prayer shortly before the raids. The church of Thalkirchen had a cross particle since the middle of the 15th century and since 1482 a new Gothic high altar with a miraculous image of Our Lady with the baby Jesus, which is attributed to Michel Erhart from Ulm or his school. That is why the church had always established itself as a pilgrimage destination and was therefore also a suitable destination for raftsmen.
The origin of the raftsmen pilgrimage of the Tölzer and Wolfratshauser raftsmen cannot be determined because of the destruction of the church records of St. Maria in Thalkirchen in the Second World War, but it cannot be set before the 18th century. In any case, it had an upswing with the great economic success of the Isar raftsmen due to the Munich building boom in the 1860s. The last guild master of the Isarflößer, Josef Dosch from Thalkirchen, bequeathed the guild flag from 1860 and the two guild poles with images of Saint Nicholas and Saint John Nepomuk to the Church of St. Maria Thalkirchen before his death in 1926. The flag shows Nepomuk in the clouds, surrounded by angels above one of the large cargo rafts. Therefore next to the year 1860 the inscription "An Honorable Guild of Raft People"
Until the beginning of the Second World War, the annual pilgrimage to Thalkirchen was maintained in mid-May. After the war, the pleasure rides started slowly. The St. John's pilgrimage was replaced by an annual mass in the Ulrich chapel at the Mühltal hydropower plant .
The great pilgrimage from Wolfratshausen to Thalkirchen was first carried out on June 17, 1990. It has taken place every five years since 1993, now at the end of the rafting season, at the beginning of September. She falls into the thirties of women , the main season of the pilgrimage in Thalkirchen. In addition to the raftsmen, the flag-bearing associations from Thalkirchen and neighboring Munich districts take part.
literature
- Helga Lauterbach: About raft masters and rafting customs - history and religious customs of the Isar and Loisach raftsmen . Erich Wewel Verlag 1992, ISBN 3-87904-181-4
- Josef Noderer: The Isar rafting, a dying industry . In: Bavarian Heritage Protection: Journal for Folk Art and Folklore, Heritage Protection and Monument Preservation , Volume 19, 1921, p. 87
Web links
- Thalkirchen Maypole Association: Raftsman pilgrimage
Individual evidence
- ^ Michael Schattenhofer: From the history of the Isar rafting . In: Marie-Louise Plessen (ed.): The Isar - A curriculum vitae . Hugendubel 1983, ISBN 3-88034-198-2 , pp. 64-78, 64
- ^ Karl Filser: Rafting on Isar and Loisach - A historical overview . In: Bernhard M. Hoppe (Ed.): Maria Thalkirchen - history of a Munich parish and pilgrimage site. Erich Wewel Verlag Munich, 1991, ISBN 3-87904-174-1 , pp. 107-114, 108
- ↑ Christine Rädlinger : From the water to the street - rafting in the time of upheaval . Franz Schiermeier Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-943866-50-6 , p. 8
- ↑ Lauterbach 1992, p. 16
- ^ Dorle Gribl , Thomas Hinz: Life in Thalkirchen - History of a Munich District 1900-1990 . Culture in the south of Munich 1990. Without ISBN, chapter rafting . Pp. 25-27
- ↑ Helga Lauterbach: The Flößerwallfahrt to Maria Thalkirchen - A piece of old Bavarian piety . In: Bernhard M. Hoppe (Ed.): Maria Thalkirchen - history of a Munich parish and pilgrimage site. Erich Wewel Verlag Munich, 1991, ISBN 3-87904-174-1 , pp. 125-133, 130
- ↑ a b Lauterbach 1992, p. 54
- ↑ Lauterbach 1992, p. 48
- ↑ Helga Lauterbach: On the way with the raftsmen . Thiem Verlag, Fischbachau, 1994, p. 22
- ↑ Helga Lauterbach: The Flößerwallfahrt to Maria Thalkirchen - A piece of old Bavarian piety . In: Bernhard M. Hoppe (Ed.): Maria Thalkirchen - history of a Munich parish and pilgrimage site. Erich Wewel Verlag Munich, 1991, ISBN 3-87904-174-1 , pp. 125-133, 126
- ↑ Lauterbach 1992, p. 128 ff.
- ↑ Lauterbach 1992, p. 131
- ↑ Pilgrimage Church of St. Maria Thalkirchen: Origin and Development of Pilgrimage