Pilgrimage Church of Sossau

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The Maria Himmelfahrt church, which dates back to the 12th century, is a pilgrimage church in the Straubing district of Sossau, north of the Danube .

It belongs to the dean's office in Straubing and is the seat of the Expositur Mariä Himmelfahrt Sossau of the Straubing parish of St. Jakob . The church building St. Jakob the Elder in Unterzeitldorn is a side church of the Sossau branch.

View of the church from the courtyard
Engraving from 1844

history

The previous church in Sossau was first mentioned in a document in 1146, no further reports about this building exist. Around 1140 Albert von Bogen handed over the Sazzowa estate, today Sossau, to the Windberg Monastery , where Abbot Gebhard had a new church built in 1177. The consecration took place in 1178. Pope Eugene III. confirmed the donation of the village and its church to the Windberg Monastery, to which it belonged until secularization. The church is originally Romanesque; in 1350 Abbot Friedrich von Windberg gave it a high Gothic high choir. Around this time, the nave was also increased, only the church tower retained its old size. The single-nave interior was changed again and again until the 18th century.

The church has valuable frescoes by Joseph Anton Merz , who created them in 1777. The high altar by Straubing plasterer Mathias Obermayr dates from the same year . The organ dates from 1715 and was made by Hans Caspar König from Ingolstadt. The pulpit, the side altars and the organ gallery are late baroque. In the nave of the church, the legend of the crossing of the pilgrimage church is depicted on two large framed panels. Inside the church there is an old bell, the so-called "Frauenglöckl". This dates from the 13th century and is therefore one of the oldest bells in Straubing.

Legend

According to legend, there was a chapel near Antenring, which was built by St. Acylius. When he was murdered and several pilgrims were attacked, angels brought the church to safety with the image of grace. They carried the building away and took the first rest near Alburg, where the name Frauenfleck still reminds of what happened. The second time they put the church down in Frauenbrünnl near Straubing, where the Frauenbrünnl pilgrimage church was later built. Then they paused at the ship landing at Kagers and from there used a ship across the Danube to bring the church to its current location in Sossau. The morning after the crossing, the angels are said to have rung the “Frauenglöckl” for the first time.

However, the legend can only be traced back to the 14th century. Since doubts about the history arose in the past, there was an excavation on the church walls in 1736. It was found that the church has no foundation. Elector Karl Albrecht, Emperor Karl VII since 1742 , gave this as evidence of the legend, and he celebrated the church as the “German Loretho”.

Oil paintings in the upper church of the Munich Citizens' Hall

In the upper church of the Munich Citizens' Hall in the pedestrian zone hangs a large painting on the left side wall, entitled "Sossau". If you take a closer look you can see that the church is not in a wide river landscape, but is actually being pulled across the river by angels in a boat.

literature

  • Löbl / Oberneder / Schäfer: Straubing . Attenkofer Publishing House, 1976
  • Walther Zeitler : Our beautiful Straubing . Attenkofer Publishing House, 1996
  • Marzell Oberneder: When grandfather was still alive . Cl. Attenkofer'sche Buchdruckerei Straubing
  • Alfons Huber: Marian pilgrimage church Sossau . Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Regensburg, 2007.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marian men's congregation "Annunciation" at the Bürgersaal in Munich> Bürgersaal> Oberkirche> Pilgrimage sites. Retrieved February 10, 2019 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 54 ′ 19.5 "  N , 12 ° 33 ′ 42.7"  E