Heilbrünnl pilgrimage church
The Heilbrünnl pilgrimage church of Our Lady and St. Maria Magdalena is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage church in the Heilbrünnl part of the municipality Roding in the Cham district in Upper Palatinate in Bavaria . The branch church of the parish church of St. Pankratius is a listed building.
history
The legend of which has pilgrimage originated in the discovery of a Marie image in a source. The shepherd who found it could not believe it as it escaped his grasp and sank lower. The picture was finally recovered from the water by the pastor of Roding, who called a procession to the spring the following day and who then had it put up in a shrine there.
As the predecessor of today's church, a chapel has stood at the site of a spring known as miraculous since 1668 . Since there leading pilgrimage was very popular, the chapel was extended already 16 years later. In 1730, today's church building replaced the chapel. Until the 19th century, Leonhardiritt was held annually at the pilgrimage church .
The patroness of the Church is Our Lady and also St. Mary Magdalene . The destination of pilgrims is the pilgrimage church with the miraculous image of Our Lady all year round. The pilgrimage is particularly popular on so-called women's days - the Feasts of Mary , especially the Visitation of the Virgin Mary , the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and the Birth of Mary , and the day of the patronage , Mary Magdalene (July 22nd) - and the Sundays following them.
architecture
The Heilbrünnl pilgrimage church stands west of the urban area of Roding on a hill above the Regen river . The church is a late baroque hall building with a hipped roof and a simple, unadorned facade. The choir is slightly drawn in and carries an octagonal turret with an onion dome, profiled by pilasters . In 1749 a two-story hermitage with a hipped roof was built next to the church entrance . The church building is oriented north-south, with the choir in the south. Entrances to the church are on the north side - there is a copy of the miraculous image of Our Lady on the facade - and on the east side next to the hermitage.
In the glass windows you can see Maria Immaculata and the church patroness Maria Magdalena.
Furnishing
The richness of the furnishings of the Heilbrünnl contrasts with the simple exterior and corresponds to the importance of the church as a pilgrimage destination.
The miraculous image, the origin of the pilgrimage to Heilbrünnl, dates from the 17th century. It is a replica of the miraculous image of the old chapel in Regensburg , both ultimately go back to the St. Luke image Salus Populi Romani in Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome . Mary holds the baby Jesus in her right arm, both wearing a richly decorated crown. The child is holding an apple in his right hand. The picture is set in a splendid frame and is held by two angel figures; In front of an open curtain, a putto hovers over the angel figures on the left and right . Figures of the parents of Mary, Joachim and Anna stand between two columns on the left and right. A round painting of God the Father can be seen in the altar extract; he is sitting on the globe, a wreath of clouds surrounds the picture. In addition, the dove can be seen as a symbol for the Holy Spirit . There are four other angel figures.
The two side altars are placed in the corners of the chancel arch and walls of the nave. The left of the altarpiece is a crucifixion scene with Mary Magdalene at the Savior's feet, painted in 1671 by Franz Waldraft . The altar extract shows the evangelist Matthäus , painted in 1799 by Thomas Geisenhofer , who, according to the inscription on the reverse, chose Reverend Sartoris, then pastor of Roding, as the model for the picture. The figures on the altar represent Saints Joseph , Florian and Peter with the keys to heaven.
On the right side altar is a portrait of St. Sebastian , accompanied by St. Irene altar sheet, painted in 1873 by the Rodingen painter Karl. There used to be a picture of the plague, painted by Waldraft, which was supposed to remind of the outbreak of the epidemic in Roding in 1655; it was sold to Prague . In the extract from the altar there is a painting of Joseph with the baby Jesus . The figures on this side altar represent St. Wendelin and St. Leonhard , in the altar extract the miter and the crown belong to the two ; the third is the apostle Paul .
The fountain basin made of red marble with white speckles is oval and about one meter high. The Heilbrünnl water is said to have a healing effect; Pilgrims wet their hands and eyes with the water. It is donated from the fountain in a central location in front of the church chancel.
The pulpit in Rococo style is characterized by an invisible transition from the sacristy reached. The reliefs on the pulpit wall show the church fathers Gregory the Great and Ambrosius , the apostle and fisherman Peter and the church fathers Augustine and Jerome . The figure standing on the pulpit roof represents the apostle Paul .
Large figures of Joachim and Anna in the nave come from the Reichenbach am Regen monastery . A wooden figure in the chancel depicts St. John Nepomuk . Opposite the pulpit is a figurative crucifixion group that originally belonged to the inventory of the Rodingen parish church; under the cross Mary and John .
Sacred buildings in the area
To the south-east of the church is a crucifix from 1876, made as a representative of the four-nail type ; the death boards under the crucifix remind of the deceased Rodinger, among them the former sacristan of the parish church, Johann Weiß. A way of the cross leads from the Regental up to the pilgrimage church; Octagonal sandstone pillars with stone blocks on top carry the bronze panels of the individual stations. The Way of the Cross was built at the end of the 18th century and goes back to a foundation of the farmers Heimerl von Braunried ; the bronze tablets are younger, they come from the 2nd half of the 19th century. At about three-quarters of the way up is a few meters away from the crossroads, one in the second half of the 19th century tuff built grotto with a portrait of Mary, in front of a stone bench.
Crucifix with death boards 
A station of the cross 
Mary's Grotto
literature
- Catholic parish office Roding (ed.): Churches of the parish of St. Pankratius Roding and Heilbrünnl pilgrimage church . Roding without a year, pp. 14–21.
Web links
- Heilbrünnl pilgrimage church . Catholic parish in Roding
- Pilgrimage Church, Heilbrünnl 1 . Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
Coordinates: 49 ° 11 ′ 30.8 " N , 12 ° 29 ′ 37.7" E