Our Lady (Mausberg)

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Liebfrauenkirche on the Mausberg

The listed Roman Catholic pilgrimage church of Our Lady is located on the Mausberg , which is in the Hahnbach municipal area, but the church belongs to the parish Gibbach .

history

The Mausberg is mentioned in a document in 1391, when the Regensburg bishopric enfeoffed Georg Kastner, citizen of Amberg, with the remuneration tenth from the vineyards in Amberg, from Mausberg nearhabenbach and in Burgfeld for life. The church itself dates back to an event in 1700. At that time, the pastor Sebastian Grün from Gibbach fell from his horse on the way back from his Poppenricht branch while watching a "little woman in stone rocks", but remained unharmed by invoking Our Lady ("received unharmed by Mariae Vorbitt"). As a thank you for this miraculous help, he had a grotto carved in the rock on which the picture was hanging and a statue of the Sorrowful Mary was placed in it. This cave is still preserved today behind the built church.

The grotto quickly developed into a place of pilgrimage , which is why a wooden church was built near the grotto from donations. A copy of the image of the Virgin Mary by Lucas Cranach the Elder was transferred to this . Since this chapel became dilapidated after a few years, the construction of today's church began in 1752, which initially received a wooden roof turret. The church was always endangered because of the poor building ground. In 1836 the damage was so great that parts of the church had to be torn down and rebuilt. When a stone tower was built in 1870, it was placed on a post grid made of oak logs for safety.

In 1991 a general renovation was undertaken, with which the structure of the church could be secured. In 1994 the Way of the Cross , which consists of Gothic sandstone columns with pictures by the painter Ernstberger from Amberg, was renovated . At that time, the access road was also expanded and the church was connected to the water supply. In 2012 the car park was built at the foot of the pilgrimage mountain.

Interior

The above-mentioned image of grace differs from the original in that additional symbols and inscriptions are added. Above the Blessed Mother is the inscription "Contra Zollas", this refers to the erroneous belief of Arianism , rejected by the Catholic Church , which a Zolla is said to have represented and according to which every devotion to Mary was rejected. Another Latin inscription reads: “No pain is so bitter because no child is so dear.” The vase in the background shows the rose of deity, the lily of purity and the violet of humility.

The church is designed in the so-called Nazarene style. The main altar came from Köblitz and the Amberg carpenter Bacher made the two side altars for it; one shows Saint Wendelin , the patron saint of cattle herders and farmers, the opposite shows Saint Benedict . In 1871 the frescoes and galleries as well as the pulpit were created and the altars redesigned.

organ

The organ in the pilgrimage church was renovated in 2000 by the Eisenbarth organ building company from Passau .

Pilgrimage to the Mausberg

Although the pilgrimage began shortly after the cave was built, it was only recognized by the Regensburg diocese 50 years later . Most of the pilgrims came on the day of the Birth of Mary , September 9th. In 1762 Pope Clement XIII. for the main festival a perfect indulgence , the Pope Pius VI. Extended to three days in 1788.

Today the Mausberg Festival takes place annually on the Sunday after the birth of Mary. Especially since 1980 the festival week has been revived, so that the Mausbergfest is one of the major mountain festivals in the region today.

literature

  • Mathias Conrad: The Mausberg. In: amberg information , September 1992, pp. 15-21.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chronicle Gibbach Pilgrimage Mausberg , accessed on June 21, 2020.

Coordinates: 49 ° 31 '46.1 "  N , 11 ° 51' 55.8"  E