Violau

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Violau
Community Altenmuenster
Violau coat of arms
Coordinates: 48 ° 27 ′ 4 ″  N , 10 ° 34 ′ 31 ″  E
Height : 457 m
Postal code : 86450
Area code : 08295
Violau: pilgrimage church of St Michael

Violau ("Veilchenau") is a district of the Altenmünster community in the Swabian district of Augsburg in Bavaria .

The small town, one kilometer northwest of Unterschöneberg , is a well-known place of pilgrimage . The parish and pilgrimage church of St. Michael from 1620 is one of the most artistically significant buildings in the Augsburg area .

history

1282 acquired the Cistercian - Kloster Oberschönenfeld the place to Augsburg. A Marian pilgrimage to Violau has been guaranteed since 1466 . In 1688 the miraculous image of Our Lady of Sorrows ( Pietà ) came into the church. The Johanneshaupt (a wooden sculpture from the late Gothic around 1500) is the second miraculous image of the church and shows the head of John the Baptist on a silver-plated wooden bowl (cf. Mk 6.17-29, Mt 14.3-12). It is placed on the pilgrims' heads several times a year , which they hope for help with headaches and other head diseases.

In Violau there is also the Bruder-Klaus -Heim ( school camp of the Diocese of Augsburg ) with an observatory . The planet conference of the VDS specialist group Planets takes place there every year. The asteroid (3559) Violaumayer was named after the location and the initiator of the home, Martin Mayer .

The parish maintains the House of Nazareth; it was built from 1987 to 1989, renovated in 2016 and is also home to pilgrims. The Hinterbach flows through Violau and is dammed in the Eichholzsee.

Until the regional reform in Bavaria , the village of Violau was divided into two communities: Neumünster and Unterschöneberg . With the incorporation of both in Altenmünster, which came into force on May 1, 1978, Violau was united and became a separate district.

The architect Josef Linder was born in Violau in 1887 .

Web links

Commons : Violau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Violaumayer, doubly good , in: Sternzeit , January 10, 2013, Deutschlandfunk , accessed on February 10, 2017.
  2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 767 .