St. Bartholomew's Church, Berchtesgaden

St. Bartholomae in Koenigssee. In the background the watzmann - east wall.

St. Bartholomew is a pilgrimage chapel on the western shore of the lake on King of Hirschau Peninsula. The very small settlement on the peninsula in 1978 was incorporated as a village in the municipality of Schoenau am Koenigssee. The peninsula is easily accessible only by boat; walk it can only be reached by long, partly high-alpine routes. The chapel dates back in parts to the 12th century. Since the 17th century, it is decorated in the Baroque style. St. Bartholomew was regarded as the patron of alpine farmers and milkmaids. The chapel has two different onion domes and red domed roofs. The layout mimics the shape of the Salzburg Cathedral. The church contains stucco work by the Salzburg artist Josef Schmidt and a Dreikonchenchor, the altars in the individual conches are each St. Bartholomew, St. Catherine and St. Jacobus consecrated.

History

Predecessor of the present church of St. Bartholomew was, according to a document a "modest chapel " with " spire ", which was inaugurated as the Basilica Chunigesee on August 24, 1134 and 1522 with the papal securitized right to receive payments drain. 1697 and 1698 has been demolished and rebuilt as a domed building this chapel. Other structural changes made ​​in the 18th century Prince Provost Cajetan Anton Notthafft of white stone make.

The Bavarian King Ludwig II, who restored the dilapidated chapel from his cabinet treasury after the foundation responsible for this Church St. Andrew in Berchtesgaden had become incapacitated. Was consecrated the chapel on 25 July 1868.

Which has been previously " ausmärkischen Forest District St. Bartholomew " lies a hunting lodge in 1903 incorporated an exclave in the community Koenigssee, which in turn was incorporated in 1978 in the municipality of Schoenau am Koenigssee. After dissolution of the unincorporated areas of forestry and forest district of St. Bartholomew County Koenigssee and their integration into the community Schoenau am Koenigssee on 1 January 1984 were also related to the Exklaveneigenschaft of St. Bartholomew - building complex. The small area was thereby displaced by the district Koenigssee in the district of St. Bartholomew.

Almer pilgrimage

Each year, St. Bartholomew on Saturday after August 24 ( St. Bartholomew ) the objective of traditional Almer pilgrimage. It is the oldest mountain pilgrimage in Europe, its origins probably go back to the period around 1635. The pilgrims, in 2006 there were over two thousand, rising in a long walk, starting from Maria Alm in Austria Pinzgau, on the Ramseider notch with the house and the Riemann Funtensee by the Stony Sea to Saint Bartholomew from. The original goal of the pilgrims was the church in Duerrenberg. After the August 23, 1688, more than 70 pilgrims were drowned in translating the King Lake, was St. Bartholomew destination for pilgrims.

Accessibility

Less than the path of the pilgrims the way is west of the lake from the location Koenigssee first along the bobsleigh and luge track Koenigssee and then over the Klinger climb up to the Kührointalm ( 1420 m ), over to the Archenkanzel and back down through the Rinnkendlsteig, with a walking time of four to five hours ( from vertigo necessary).

Other buildings

With St. Bartholomew in the use of language is meant on the peninsula not only the chapel but the entire building complex. Also in official statistics is with St. Bartholomew the entire settlement ( part of municipality: wasteland ) meant. Next to the chapel is the former hunting lodge, which was built from a fisherman's house from the 14th century in the years 1506 to 1522, and then several more times rebuilt. The building was until 1803 a lodging station of the Berchtesgaden prince provosts. After 1810, when the territory of the prince provost Berchtesgaden was annexed to the Kingdom of Bavaria, it served the Wittelsbach family as a hunting lodge. Today it is a restaurant. In addition there are a souvenir shop, an information site of the Berchtesgaden National Park (formerly a Holzknechthütte ), the Watzmannostwand camp, the Koenigssee fishing and some other buildings.

→ See also: List of monuments in Schoenau am Koenigssee # St. Bartholomew

Tourism

On weekends with nice weather St. Bartholomew is visited by thousands of tourists by boat. Once in the afternoon the last ship to the village Koenigssee has returned, returns into St. Bartholomew silence; only the aspirants for the watzmann east wall have the right to stay on Hirschau.

On January 29, 2006 approximately 60,000 people were on the frozen Koenigssee road, of which a large part is likely to have reached St. Bartholomew.

Rear Mezzanine

St. Bartholomew seen with boat jetty from the boat

Added St.Bartholomä from the ship, from the direction Koenigssee

St. Bartholomew from 1100m above vantage point Feuerpalven