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Pilgrimage Church Spabrücken
An extremely rewarding hike leads from
Stromberg
over the Schönberg Heights and Weissenfels (538m) down to Spabrücken with
the pilgrimage church of our "Mother on the Soon Forest" that can be
seen from afar. The laying of the foundation stone for this ancient Franciscan
monastery church dates back to 1359. It replaced the old "Capella", which
was mentioned in a deed dated 1338 for the locality of "Spachbrücken" in the
medieval Dalberg County. The baroque furnishings of the pilgrimage
church stem from the first half of the 18th Century, together with an organ
built by Michael Stumm in 1735. The remains of the original structure
are, to this day, easily discernable in the outer walls of the church, which
had been designed as a single-nave hall church with a semicircular apse at
the end of the chancel and a slate-covered gable roof, as well as two ridged
turrets, which act as a steeple. The monastery adjoining the north side of
the church was also built during this era (1681-1731). The interior of today's
church is dominated by a high altar which reaches up to the ceiling, a two-sided
altar with figures of the founder of the order, Francis of Assisi (1182-1226),
as well as the impressive ribbed vault of the Gothic ceiling.
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The pilgrimage church «Our Mother on the Soon Forest» from 1359, visible from afar.
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