Pilgrimage Church Maria-Hilf (Beratzhausen)
The Roman Catholic pilgrimage church Maria-Hilf is located north of Beratzhausen on the Mariahilfberg.
history
Originally there was a wayside shrine or a scourge or torture column , i. H. initially this was not a place of Marian devotion. As it is said, the "always painfully suffered water pourings and Wolckhenbrüchter", to which those praying here were exposed, led to the fact that in 1710 a first chapel was built here. In this a representation of the Mother of God was worshiped as a miraculous image , allegedly the work of a painter from Stadtamhof , a copy of the miraculous image of Mariahilf by Lucas Cranach the Elder. Ä. as can also be found in the Kreuzbergkirche in Schwandorf or in the Innsbruck Cathedral . The picture is now integrated into the main altar of the pilgrimage church with a gilded carved frame.
As the chapel soon proved to be too small due to increasing numbers of pilgrims , it was replaced by a larger church from 1734–1742 under the pastor Johann Jakobus Winkler and consecrated on July 22, 1742 by Auxiliary Bishop Franz Joachim Schmid von Altenstadt . A good hundred years later, the detached church was struck by lightning on July 9, 1845 and burned down almost completely. Thanks to many donations, the church was rebuilt on the initiative of Bishop Valentin Riedel from Regensburg and was consecrated again on July 2, 1847, the day of remembrance for Maria Magdalena .
Church building
The Sanctuary is a hall building with four yokes and a recessed, semi-circular choir ; it has a ridge turret with an onion dome, which is covered by shingles (it used to have a pointed pyramid roof ). A sacristy is attached to the choir .
A way of the cross with 14 stations leads to the church, the last one has a gable roof and stands on a pillar and base made of sandstone; here you can find the year "1876". There is a Marian column in front of the church.
Interior
The interior of the church is designed in the Rococo style. The high altar dates from the middle of the 18th century. The image of grace is built into the middle. To the right and left are Saints Joachim and Anna , Mary's parents . Also worth mentioning is a figure of Christ on the torture column on a side altar.
The pulpit shows the doctors of the church and in the middle Pope Gregory I , a canonized father of the church.
There are also numerous votive tablets in the church , the oldest dating from the 18th century. Due to a break-in in the 1970s, some of the pictures were lost; the around 30 original votive tablets in the sanctuary of the pilgrimage church and the other 70 in the rear part of the Marienkirche were digitized and framed. After the Second World War , an extensive interior renovation was carried out. The ceiling painting from 1948 comes from Hermann Kaspar , a painter who was a prominent figure in the “ capital of the movement ” during the Nazi era . In the choir there is a depiction of the Annunciation and in the nave Mary is depicted as mediator of graces. War wounded, war returnees and expellees are also built into the pictures.
Today the church is a popular place for weddings and continues to be a destination for pilgrimages.
literature
- Günter Moser, Bernhard Setzwein: Holy Mountains - Holy Sources. Pilgrimage sites in the Upper Palatinate. Buch & Kunstverlag Oberpfalz, Erbendorf 2013, pp. 92–93.
- Reinhard Seidl: Maria-Hilf is 275 years old. The anniversary is celebrated with a festive service. In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung . July 20, 2017 ( Mittelbayerische.de ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Parish letter Beratzhausen: New copies of the votive tablets of the pilgrimage church Maria-Hilf, September 2005 , accessed on November 7, 2019.
- ↑ Reinhard Seidl: Parish celebrates its anniversary in 2017. In 1742 the pilgrimage church Maria-Hilf was consecrated. Now reproductions of the original votive pictures are again hanging in the church. In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung . December 5, 2016 ( Mittelbayerische.de ).
- ^ Parish letter Beratzhausen: Star pilgrimage and MMC district pilgrimage to the Maria-Hilf-Kirche , accessed on November 7, 2019.
Coordinates: 49 ° 5 ′ 52.3 " N , 11 ° 48 ′ 37.3" E