St. Odile (Freiburg)
St. Ottilie is a forest sanctuary on the territory of the district of the city Waldsee Freiburg im Breisgau. It is 480 meters high on a forest clearing in the upper St. Ottilie - Dobel the Freiburg city forest, south of the Roßkopfs, and is one of the oldest pilgrimage destinations in Germany. The chapel of St.. Consecrated Odilia. Odilia is usually depicted with Abbess rod and a book, lying on the two or three eyes, indicating that she was born blind, and to help with eye problems. The church was originally built near a spring, whose water containing radon relief is awarded for eye diseases. 1714 combined and designed as a grotto source was included in an expansion of the Church in this, so that it is accessible to visitors about the church.
History
The origins of the pilgrimage lie between the 7th and 13th centuries; they reached a peak in the 16th century. Documented in writing of the pilgrimage is the first time in a document from 1428 ( stored in the Freiburg Münster archive) and then in a further deed of 1456 ( municipal archive Freiburg).
The first chapel stood on this site for 679 ( information board in the well chapel ). Around 1100 a new chapel was built. 1503 donated the Freiburg councilor Peter Sprung and his wife Elisabeth Zehenderin the construction of the church Ottilie, the consecration took place in 1505. Several wars damaged the church difficult, during the Thirty Years' War it was looted from 1632 several times by the Swedes. In 1648 it was repaired. The altar constructions emerged in the 1663 / 64th At the siege of Freiburg by the Duke of Villars in 1713, she was so badly damaged that they had to be rebuilt in 1714 for the most part. She has been enlarged to the west and the previously detached Odilienquelle integrated into the structure. The last restoration took place in the years 1966/1967. This valuable medieval frescoes were uncovered, one of which was known for a long time and until then nothing.
1770, Emperor Joseph II in Vienna addition to the closure of all churches and chapels and the abolition of the hermitages and forest sanctuaries. For the Freiburg forest sanctuaries St. Ottilia, St. Wendelin, St. Valentine and the Loretto Chapel, the closure was averted. Its closure in 1785 was decreed by imperial decree. The goods of the chapels should be submitted in 1788 to the parish Horben. The protest of the citizens was successful: in 1791 came the decision that St. Ottilie was to be reopened, and the other chapels have been preserved. With reference to this decree also tried closing by the Baden government in 1807 could be averted. The new Big Brother house was built in 1885 /86 and 1889 today's inn was built to replace the previous building burned.
The terrain was tied in 1885 by a cannon coming from the place on the Schlossberg infrastructure ( car-free), a further connection since 1903 via a footpath which runs parallel to the track a little deeper. Likewise, it is to reach a driveway that the Kartaus branches east of the Kartäuserstraße. A Way of the Cross with eight Stations of the Cross called Stationenweg, branches off the lower part of the driveway and through the St. Ottilie - Dobel steeply to the chapel and to the inn.
Ownership
The chapel is the property of the Freiburg Minster parish. The inn was in 1964 by the Catholic Parish of Mary Help of Freiburg in the property of the Archdiocese over. By 1953, it had belonged to the city of Freiburg. The eight Stations of the Cross are the Münster factory Fund and shall be maintained by the Church of the City of Freiburg ..