The night was clear, so it is very cold in the morning. I'm going to run in the car to Constance, my starting point at Lake Constance. We plan to follow the southern Santiago that crosses Wurzburg, Rothenburg, Crailsheim, Ulm, Weingarten to Constance.
We will go over Tauberbischofsheim, Bad Mergentheim to Crailsheim to encounter this Camino.
on the amount of Bad Mergentheim it is bitterly cold. A sunny winter day with clear, cold air, and according to good visibility. The cold takes almost breath when you climb out of the car.
Schainbach is a small hamlet, with some farms and an old church. is the key to the neighbor.
The Protestant Church in Schainbach is dedicated to St James, an almost infallible sign that the pilgrim route passes the village.
few kilometers Schainbach stands at Wallhausen Anhäuser the wall. Middle of the field are the remains of the choir room of a Pauline monastery of hermits is nothing left of the more than this wall. Nothing else in the area indicated on a settlement out, only forest and farmland.
Continue to Crailsheim, a town in the Hohenlohe region on the plateau. hit hard by war damage, the St. John's Church with a scallop presentation on the altar, fortunately, survived the so-called Battle of Crailsheim, on at the 20th April 1945 the historic inner city was destroyed to 95%.
The altar from the workshop of Michael Wolgemut, the teacher of Albrecht Durer (Nuremberg, late 15th century) on the back shows a picture of Jacob in pilgrim clothing and mussels.
ship of the Church of St. John, in the style of late Gothic mendicant order of the Franciscans, 1398-1440, built with the old font.
After several kilometers through the beautiful winter southern Germany we arrive in Ulm. The Ulmer Münster exhibit with its 162m high tower, the tallest spire in the world. The cathedral was built over a long period from 1377 to.
spite of iconoclasm in the Reformation, in which most of the art treasures were destroyed - including 60 altars and main altar, is the interior of the church is still very impressive.
joins In Ulm the historically significant St. James from Nuremberg on the way from Würzburg. At the Nuremberg way pilgrims come from Eastern Europe, for instance via Tillyschanz.
The Swabian Alb
under snow.
After another 60km arrival at the spa town of Bad Waldsee, located on the Camino de Santiago. For pedestrians and cyclists in the trail is full.
The Collegiate Church of Bad Waldsee.
Continue to wine garden, to the Benedictine Abbey of St. Martin. The monastery and the church are a main attraction of the Upper Swabian Baroque Route. Later in Einsiedeln I will notice the great similarity of the structures.
It's so cold that even the holy water in the porch is frozen.
1715-1724 was built the large, well-appointed, newly baroque cathedral with since 1956, the honorary title of Papal Basilica (Basilica minor). It should stand in the midst of an ideal monastery. The ideal plan of the monastery was but are only partially implemented in reality.
In the church I see an interesting picture of Mary with her child in her arms on a pillar. What might the symbols mean?
now I know more:
"In the Book of Revelation sees the mystery of the faith shown the lmmaculata:
'A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, the moon under her feet and on her head a crown of twelve stars' (Rev. 12, 7).
Not on the present image of the stars and the explicit representation of the snake, which is replaced by a looking down head.
Mary is clothed with the sun, we see the rays emanating from her body. be clothed with the sun means to be clothed with Christ. Not visible with an outer garment, but with what is inside and outwardly. The real beauty of man is the one that comes from within.
Mary stands on the moon. The moon is a symbol of the instability, because its shape changes repeatedly. Meant the impermanence and fickleness of man before God. It is not to find Maria. The snake as a symbol of the tempter and his power over the people is at the feet of Mary (here the head instead of a snake).
Since God the Maria has dominion of evil and even removed based in her home, was symbolically crush the serpent's head in Mary. Thus began the fulfillment of the promise to Eve that the offspring of the woman would bruise the serpent's head (cf. Gen 3, 15). " after http://mariendom.de/gnadenbild/gnadenbild.html
in the aisle of the church or a large nursery is established, the life work of a local artist, a shepherd.
In Meersburg we bring into the setting sun on the ferry across Lake Constance. Back Constance, I for many Years and know where I lived for several years as a student had.
I arrived at my home location. What will the next time?
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