Vredener Hunger cloth

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The Vredener Hunger Cloth is one of two hunger cloths of the inner city churches of the city of Vreden , district of Borken in North Rhine-Westphalia . That of the collegiate church is referred to as the Vredener Hunger cloth because it is historically relevant. The parish church's hunger cloth was only created in the last third of the 20th century.

The hunger cloth of St. Felizitas Church is a donation of the abbess Agnes von Limburg-Stirum in 1619. According to the Latin inscription, she personally made the hunger cloth "in honor of the passion of our Lord". A Latin addition to this inscription from 1826 refers to the restoration of the cloth by Countess Christina von Salm-Reifferscheid with the support of the "Fräuleins von Limpens and Meyer zu Stritholt".

The Vredener copy is fully committed to the Westphalian Hungertuch tradition and therefore a typical linen - fillet pan work . While the central motif, a crucifixion , is in portrait format, this format is relativized by landscape format smaller depictions from the Passion of Jesus. In its entirety, the canvas is approximately square with the external dimensions 4.85 × 4.50 m, but its appearance is slightly dominated by the vertical orientation, as four of the horizontal representations are arranged around the vertical central image and only three above and below . The individual fields by strips of linen, interrupted by the four evangelists and sixteen arms, which are connected Pedigree pose of the amount required to pin ability noble ancestors of the abbess. The landscape-format images start at the top left and continue in rows from left to right. The first shows the Last Supper and the washing of the feet , followed by a scene from the Mount of Olives . The next is the capture of Jesus and the kiss of Judas , then in the second row on the left, Christ before Pilate . On the right you can see the flagellation scene , which is followed by the crowning of thorns in the next (third) row on the left . The other scenes are " Ecce Homo " and in the lower row " Christ Carrying the Cross " (for a more detailed explanation see Christ Carrying the Cross (Raphael) ), " Entombment " and " Resurrection ". Several of these pictures are additionally provided with quotations from the Gospels in Latin.

The Vreden Hunger Shawl no longer serves its liturgical purpose during Lent . It is on display in a showcase in the back of the collegiate church all year round.

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literature

  • Engelmeier, Paul: Westphalian hunger cloths from the 14th to 19th centuries . Munster 1961.