How things went on a pilgrimage through the Hallertau in 1961 - and what bothered the pastors about it: An archive contribution from the BR lets you relive it all again.
Nandlstadt
- The Bayerischer Rundfunk has once again rummaged through its archive and brought astonishing things to light: A film documentary of the pilgrimage from Nandlstadt to Sankt Alban from 1961. As a BR reporter on site at the Albinganer Bittgang: the Bavarian writer, director and Actor Georg Lohmeier (Royal Bavarian District Court).
Even 60 years ago, the Hallertau farmers were of the opinion that the hops would not bring enough money.
Therefore, according to a farmer interviewed at the time, these petitions would be “very necessary”: “So that Hopfa tastes something again!” Lohmeier is also here, as usual, a skilful interviewer, spanning the arc from secular to clerical and thus illustrating the well-known Bavarian one in great detail Mixture between prayers, beer and the hops price.
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The Albinganer Bittgang led the pilgrims through the middle of the hop gardens in 1961.
© Screenshot: Bayerischer Rundfunk
After the long All Saints litany in the church, we stopped at the local pub, just as it should be.
And there, too, this cinematic journey through time shows how much the village character and the pub culture have changed drastically.
"Bet no diligently wieda hoam, maybe Hopfa will have money next year wieda", so Lohmeier's final comment from the inn in Sankt Alban.
Intoxication is a thorn in the side of clergymen
A great cinematic sensation, however, is above all the view into the sacristan's house on site, where the reverend ones traditionally rested with coffee and cake from the pilgrimage. The three pastors of the parishes are together: von Hörgertshausen, Nandlstadt and Margarethenried, who accompanied their respective sheep to St. Alban. Above all, Lohmeier takes on the youngest among them: “You are certainly a zealot in the modern liturgy!” He was referring to the Nandlstadt pastor Georg Unterstraßer, who had only come to Nandlstadt two years earlier and who soon afterwards significantly changed the Nandlstadt church . When asked whether he wanted to abolish the baroque petitions, Unterstraßer waved off: The petitions per se are still important,In his opinion, the "excesses" of such pilgrimages should be abolished. That means in plain language: Please, but not a pub visit with a clean intoxication as a result of the devotion.
Before there could be any “baroque outgrowths” in the inn, the pastor from Hörgertshausen rang the bell to go home again.
Just as they came: the schoolchildren first, the girls and boys, then the men and women - and last but not least the old “mothers”, as commentator Fritz Straßner put it.
Richard Lorenz
The broadcast to look up: The link to the BR media library
If you want to watch the entire broadcast from Bayerischer Rundfunk, you will find the journey back in time to 1961 here in the BR media library.
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