Ziteil

The Marian Shrine Ziteil is a place of pilgrimage on the eastern slopes of the Piz Curvér ( 2,971, 8 m above sea level. M. ) in the municipality of Salouf in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. The Sanctuary with pilgrim house is situated on 2'429 meters above sea level. M., and is the highest place of pilgrimage in the Eastern Alps (higher in the Western Alps: Mont Thabor, Rocciamelone others) and one of the highest places of worship of the Alps ( eg higher ground chapels on the Stelvio and on the Col de l' Iseran ).

After two Maria appearances in the summer of 1580 a modest chapel was built in Ziteil. The church was rebuilt in 1849. In 1959 a new building. In a cultivated at the Hermitage Pilgerhaus is room for 150 pilgrims available.

Ziteil provides a comprehensive view of the above Steiner and on the Albula Alps ( Bergüner sticks, Err and Forbeschgruppe ) and the Piz Bernina ( 4,049 m above sea level. M. ).

Pilgrimage history

Pilgrimages to go back to the year 1580, when a white dressed woman of small stature, who had covered her face with a white veil, a 18- year-old girl in the above stone appeared, which had gone up the mountain to gather wood. The woman said to the girl:

" Go and tell the people in the land Above stone, it had now sinned so much that no more could be endured. If it is not better, God will punish it severely, so that he not only wither the crops, but the people of the 'll let die youngest to the oldest. I can no longer insert intercession with my son for this people. "

After the woman had gone, the girl dared to tell anyone about it. The following day, when it came to the same place, it appeared that recently the same woman and asked it why it did not tell the people what she had told him. When the girl answered that it was entitled to say anything, she repeated again the same thing, adding that it should have no fear, and the people saying there should repent and keep up with the cross processions and then God will easily forgive him the sins. The girl should not omit to inform the Brushed the people this time, otherwise it will be even punished.

Nevertheless, the girl did not dare to tell someone something like this and the following night, when it was sleeping next to his mother, began a voice to call the girl. When the mother heard the voice for the second time, they asked who call. In the answer, they will not call, but her daughter, she woke them, and the voice repeated the same as the two previous times. Then the mother asked her daughter what had happened and whether the woman had earlier spoken to her. The mother told the following day everything she had learned from her daughter with another woman, and they told it to her husband. Since this reported to the bailiff of the High Court report, the bailiff mother and daughter took the examination and prescribed processions, in which each time attended by over 3000 people.

Eight days later, the same woman appeared a 16- year-old boy in Ziteil: He saw a woman in prayer at a small source kneel. When he tried to call for fear two men to help, the woman called the boy lovingly to him and told him the same as before the girl, adding that they have not ceased to pray for her son for the people. But it was necessary that the people truly converted and continued driving with the processions because they would otherwise not be heard. Before she went away, he saw her flushed knee, as if to show that it was necessary to struggle in prayer. After he had gone a few steps, he turned around to see the woman, but she was gone. When they began to hold processions, all withered crops again began to green and woke hope for a very good harvest.

These events are recorded in a report dated July 6, 1580, the, has created for submission to the apostolic nuncio, Giovanni Francesco, Bishop of Vercelli, the bailiff of the High Court Above Stone, Albert de Baselgia and is located in the Vatican Archives. The tradition says that the shepherd Giatgen Dietegen de Marmels have told and that in order to reaffirming his statement that evening was Ziteil shines in radiant light.

Architectural History

Probably a modest chapel was built in Ziteil shortly after the second publication in 1580. 1679 a church was mentioned when the pastor Johann Gaudenzdorfer Janett let replace the old one with a new altar for the first time. 1710 is reported from a Neuweihung the church.

The present church dates from the years 1846 to 1849. In the years 1914 and 1949 extensions were held at Pilgrim House. In 1959 the church was rebuilt in 1977 and again increased.

Pilgrimage days

Church and Pilgrim House Ziteil are open from Saturday noon and on Sundays the summer months of July, August and September - early August to Monday noon.

• June 26 ( Kirchweihfest )
• June 29 ( Peter and Paul )
• 2 July ( Visitation )
• July 11 ( Plazidus and Sigisbert )
• July 22 ( Magdalena )
• July 25 ( James )
• July 26 (Anna )
• August 5 ( Maria Schnee )
• August 10 ( Lawrence )
• August 16th ( Rochus )
• August 24 ( Bartholomew )
• September 8 ( the Virgin Birth )
• September 21 (Matthew)
• September 29 (Michael)

Access paths

By Got Grond

• Starting point: Mon ( 1,231 m), Salouf ( 1'258 m) or Parking Munter ( 1,860 m)
• Route: By Got Grond along Munter, Furcletta
• Difficulty: Mountain hikers
• Time: 3 ½ hours from Mon or Salouf, 1 ¾ hours from the parking lot Munter

About Cre digl Lai

• Starting point: Salouf ( 1'258 m) or Parking Cre digl Lai ( 1,780 m)
• Directions: On the mountain trail after Cre digl Lai, Furcla
• Difficulty: Mountain hikers
• Time: 3 hours from Salouf, 1 ¾ hours from the parking lot Cre digl Lai

From Shams

• Starting point: Pignia ( 1,054 m) or Bavugls ( 1,940 m)
• Route: Alp Neaza, pass Colmet ( 2'676 m)
• Difficulty: mountaineer
• Time: 6 hours from Pignia, 3 ½ hours from Bavugls

Sports events

Ziteil is transit point of the mountain run Swiss Irontrail.

Panorama

Gallery

The altar of Ziteil

Window towards the east

Cross on the roof of Ziteil

Ziteil and Piz Toissa, taken from the eastern slopes of the Piz Curvér