To Our Lady of the Kreuzberg

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Monastery church on the Kreuzberg
inside view
Image of grace Mariahilf with angel

The pilgrimage church to Our Lady of the Kreuzberg is a parish church on the Kreuzberg in Schwandorf ( Bavaria ). It is also the monastery church of the Carmelite Order .

history

Former church

After the Michael chapel was demolished in 1556, the "Spielberg" was used as a place of execution. At the beginning of the 17th century the gallows were torn down and three crosses were erected (Kreuzberg). In 1678 the first Lady Chapel was built by Pietro II Spineta. The Maria-Hilf-Bild was donated in 1679. From 1695 the pilgrimage was looked after by the Capuchins, who expanded the chapel into a four-bay church in 1698. In 1782 the church was enlarged again. In 1802 the Capuchin monastery was dissolved by secularization and taken over again from 1889 by the Carmelites who rebuilt the monastery next to the church in 1892.

The baroque church was almost completely destroyed in a bomb attack in 1945 on April 17, 1945 . Brother Edmund fell victim to the attack, while the rest of the priests managed to save themselves. The miraculous image of Mariahilf by Lucas Cranach the Elder remained intact.

Today's church

From 1949 to 1952 the reconstruction took place under Prior Father Alexander Schultes. The modern church was built according to plans by the Regensburg government master builder Franz Seraph Günther . The academic painter Blasius Spreng from Munich took over the artistic direction . On July 2, 1960, the church was inaugurated by Auxiliary Bishop Josef Hiltl .

organ

The organ was built in the years 1958-1960 by the organ building company Weise (Plattling). The instrument was based on organs of the 18th century scheduled . It has 48 registers (3753 pipes ) on three manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are electro-pneumatic .

I main work C – c 4
1. Viola di gamba 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Reed flute 8th'
4th Octave 4 ′
5. Pointed flute 4 ′
6th Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Okatv 2 ′
8th. Mixture V 2 ′
9. Cimbel III 1'
10. Trumpet 16 ′
11. Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – c 4
12. Quintad 16 ′
13. Principal 8th'
14th Dumped 8th'
15th Willow pipe 8th'
16. Octave 4 ′
17th Flute 4 ′
18th Night horn 2 ′
19th Sesquialter III
20th Back set IV 2 ′
21st Sharp IV 2 ′
22nd bassoon 16 ′
23. Trumpet 8th'
24. Clarine 4 ′
Tremulant
III Kronwerk C – c 4
25th Covered 8th'
26th Black viola 8th'
27. Principal 4 ′
28. Hollow flute 4 ′
29 Octave 2 ′
30th Hörnlein III
31. Sif flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
32. Flute 1'
33. Mixture IV 1'
34. Dulcian 16 ′
35. French oboe 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – g 1
36. Pedestal 32 ′
37. Principal 16 ′
38. Sub bass 16 ′
39. Holzpommer 16 ′
40. Octave bass 8th'
41. Bass flute 8th'
42. Fifth 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′
43. Octave 4 ′
44. Forest flute 4 ′
45. Pipe whistle 2 ′
46. Mixture VI
47. trombone 16 ′
48. Trumpet 8th'

Bells

The church has six bells, some of which were cast by different bell foundries at the beginning of the 20th century, and some after World War II. The full bell can only be heard in exceptional cases.

No. Surname Casting year Caster Ø (mm) Mass (kg) Nominal inscription
1 Peace bell 1958 Court weaver
Regensburg		 1630 2250 b 0 "Pax vevis ques defundis memento April 17th, 1945"
2 St. Michael 1958 Court weaver
Regensburg		 1415 1600 of the 1st "Who is like God"
3 St. Theresa 1951 Petit & Edelbrock
Gescher		 1210 1050 it 1 "The Carmelites of Schwandorf of their holy mother Theresia von Jems - 1951"
4th St. Mary 1913 Hamm
Regensburg		 650 f 1
5 St. Joseph 1913 Hamm
Regensburg		 400 as 1
6th Siegfried
measuring bell		 1951 Petit & Edelbrock
Gescher		 250 b 1 "Dona nobis pacem - Anna Lautenschlager, Schwandorf, in memory of her fallen son Siegfried - 1951"

Anti-WAA votive tablet

Anti-WAA votive tablet

An anti WAA - votive tablet hangs in the chapel of the monastery church and has the following inscription:

“At this time, when our environment is threatened with destruction, through
poisoning of air, water and earth, our home Upper Palatinate is threatened with
nuclear contamination for us and future generations
due to the construction of a reprocessing plant. Mary, Mother of God,
patroness of our homeland , patroness of the Kreuzberg, ask for us
from your son to protect our homeland.
O Lord, spare us from poisoning the earth! "

literature

  • Xaver Luderböck: Our Lady of the Kreuzberg Schwandorf (= Little Art Guide No. 854). Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2018.
  • P. Lambert Stein (OCD): 100 years of the Carmelites on the Kreuzberg in Schwandorf. 1889-1989. Festschrift on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Carmelites on the Kreuzberg in Schwandorf . Abensberg 1989.
  • Hans J. Utz: Pilgrimages in the diocese of Regensburg . Schnell and Steiner, Munich / Zurich 1981, p. 181.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Xaver Luderböck: Our Lady from Kreuzberg Schwandorf (= Small Art Guide No. 854). Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2018, p. 22f.
  2. ↑ Schwandorf, Carmelite Monastery on the Kreuzberg - (Christine Riedl-Valder, House of Bavarian History)
  3. ↑ More information on the Weise organ
  4. ↑ More information about the bells

Web links

Commons : To Our Lady from Kreuzberg (Schwandorf)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 19 ′ 12.1 ″  N , 12 ° 6 ′ 59 ″  E