Weggentalkirche
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The pilgrimage church to the Sorrowful Mother of God in Weggental is a baroque pilgrimage church near Rottenburg am Neckar .
History and description of the building
Since 1450 there was a wayside shrine with a small Pietà on the wayside from Rottenburg am Neckar to Remmingsheim . In 1521 the first small chapel was built and a pilgrimage arose which was initially looked after by the canons of St. Moriz . In 1658 it was given to the Jesuits . The church was owned by the parish of St. Martin . At no time did the Weggental have its own income, no house or land, and there were no altar donations .
In 1682 the construction of the current church began according to the Vorarlberg cathedral scheme . Michael Thumb is accepted as the builder . It was completed in 1695 and consecrated on October 29 of the same year. The interior decoration did not follow until the first third of the 18th century. The stucco work in the choir, around the high altar and in the apse was made by the plasterer Johann Georg Brix (1665–1742). A blessing resurrection Christ rises above the apse made of stucco, surrounded by angels, to the left and right the four evangelists and the apostles Simon Peter and Paul . The painting of the main altar by an unknown master shows the Descent from the Cross. To the left and right of the altarpiece there are busts of St. Joachim and Anna , Mary's parents. All three were also made around 1700.
The wooden side altars were made between 1701 and 1732 and have been painted in black and gold since the renovation in the 1960s. It can be assumed that it is not the original version, but that it was originally painted in marbled style.
Front left the altarpiece shows Mary with the 14 helpers in need , front right Petrus' liberation from prison and Mary Magdalene . The middle niche on the left is dedicated to the founder of the Jesuit order Ignatius von Loyola , who consecrates the order Maria and the Jesuit saints Aloisius and Stanislaus Kostka , in the right side chapel Maria with her mother Anna and Maria and Elisabeth. The altarpiece in the last niche on the right shows Saint Ursula with her companions. In the side altar niches there are also baroque pictures from 1657, which show the seven joys of Mary on the right and the seven sorrows on the left. In the first niche to the left of the entrance, a Renaissance sculpture depicting the impotence of Mary was set up as she was caught by helpers. Next to it is another sculpture with the seven sorrows of Mary , which appear as seven swords in her chest.
On the right in the apse is the entrance to a side chapel with a stage-like representation of the Holy Sepulcher . The golden high altar made in Vienna from 1730 is a gift from the Imperial House of the Habsburgs . Since the abolition of the Jesuit order in 1773, the care of the pilgrimage has again been taken over by the clergy of the parish church of St. Martin. With the secularization threatened the demolition of the church.
The Weggental nativity scene, which is presented in four presentations every year from December 23rd to Candlemas , is known nationwide and sung about by Sebastian Blau . It comes from Leopold Lazaro. It was created around 1835/40 for the French horn landlady Kreszentia Fischer. She donated this to the monastery in 1850.
organ
The organ was built in 2014 by the organ builder Thomas Jann (Laberweinting). The slider chest instrument has 32 stops on three manuals and a pedal. The playing and stop actions are mechanical.
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- Coupling : I / II, III / I, III / II (also as sub-octave coupling), I / P, II / P, III / P (also as super-octave coupling)
Franciscan Settlement
At the request of Bishop Paul Wilhelm von Keppler , the church has been looked after by the Franciscans (OFM) with the pilgrimage since 1919 . The sacristan's house in front of the church, built in 1773, was assigned to them as an apartment. This modest, two-story rococo building with a high mansard roof was expanded in 1973 with a new convent building. A chapel could be set up on the ground floor of the sacristan's house.
The Franciscans gave up their monastery in Weggental in autumn 2016 with a service in the monastery church, which Bishop Gebhard Fürst celebrated on October 9, 2016; From the end of November 2016 to the end of March 2019, Indian Carmelites took care of the pilgrimage in Weggental. Due to different ideas of the Order and the diocese about the pastoral tasks of the Fathers on site, the German Province of the Carmelites terminated the so-called provision contract on December 31, 2018. After their departure on March 31, 2019, two priests from Tanzania and Nigeria took over pastoral care at the church.
literature
- Suso Frank: The pilgrimage church to the painful Mother of God in the Weggental near Rottenburg . Weggental Abbey, 2nd edition 1971 (18 pages)
- Dieter Manz: Monasteries in Rottenburg am Neckar . 1990.
- Dieter Manz: Rottenburger miniatures . Volume 4. 2004, p. 56ff.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Even a postman gets lost in the manger. Schwarzwälder Bote, December 28, 2012, accessed February 15, 2013 .
- ↑ Information about the organ on the website of the organ builder
- ^ Franciscans. Magazine for Franciscan Culture and Way of Life. WSintger 2016, p. 31.
- ↑ Schwarzwälder Bote: Indian Fathers leave Weggental, January 31, 2019
- ↑ Diocese Rottenburg-Stuttgart: Temporary solution for Weggental Monastery, February 20, 2019 , accessed on June 26, 2019.
Coordinates: 48 ° 28 ′ 48 ″ N , 8 ° 55 ′ 15 ″ E