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Pilgrimage Church Spabrücken
An extremely rewarding hike leads from
Stromberg
over the Schönberg Heights and Weissenfels (538 m) 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 cloister 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 the year 1735. The remains of the original structure are, to
this day, easily discernable in the outer walls of the church, which
had been conceived of as a single-nave hall church with a semicircular
apse at the end of the choir and a slate-covered gable roof, as well as two
ridged turrets, which act as a steeple. The cloister 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 founder of
the order, Francis of Assisi (1182-1226), as well as the impressive
Gothic cross-ribbed vaulting.
Photo: The pilgrimage church "Our Mother on the Soon Forest" was
constructed as a single-nave hall church with a gabled roof and a semicircular
apse at the end. The interior is dominated by a high altar which reaches up
to the ceiling and the Gothic cross-rib vaulting.
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