Handlab pilgrimage church
The early Baroque pilgrimage church Handlab in the district Handlab in the municipality Iggensbach in the district of Deggendorf belongs to the parish Iggensbach in the diocese of Passau . She is St. Corona and consecrated to the Queen of Heaven .
architecture
The simple hall church , built in 1644, closes with a polygonal choir and has a roof turret with an onion hood on the portal side . A covered walkway and an outside pulpit are used for pilgrimage services.
Furnishing
More than 600 votive tablets remember the pilgrims with their diverse concerns. The late Renaissance style altar has an image on which angels represent symbols of Mary. Two stone wayside shrines from the end of the 17th century stand in front of the church .
history
According to various sources, the pilgrimage dates back to the 14th or 15th century. The church was built in its current form in the Baroque era. Even today it is still a heavily visited place of pilgrimage on certain days, which is looked after by third order sisters .
regional customs
The Handlaber Women's Day is a festival that is celebrated every year on Assumption Day , August 15th, around the pilgrimage church. More than 10,000 guests come to this every year. The day begins with a festive service at 9.30 a.m. on the Freialtar near the pilgrimage church. Then it's off for a morning pint in the Schlemmer-Wirtsgarten and the first round through the booth world.
literature
- Josef Wimmer: The Bavarian Forest Pilgrimage Handlab . 1949
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b bayerischer-wald.de
- ↑ a b List of monuments (PDF; 129 kB)
- ↑ Handlaber Women's Day in the regiowiki
- ↑ Pastor Josef Wimmer (1876–1949), patron of the Handlaber Church and Pilgrimage ( Pastor Josef Wimmer died 60 years ago ( Memento of the original from November 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. , Passauer Neue Presse , August 8, 2009)
Coordinates: 48 ° 43 ′ 1.9 ″ N , 13 ° 8 ′ 58.7 ″ E