The well chapel in Kleinhelfendorf awakens from its deep sleep.
Finally, says Ayings Mayor Peter Wagner (CSU), the long-awaited renovation of the chapel, which is now in community ownership, is under way.
Kleinhelfendorf
- Various arrangements were necessary because the gem, which according to tradition is said to have been built in 1631, is a listed building.
Therefore, according to Wagner, close contact with the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation was necessary in order to coordinate the redevelopment concept.
The renovation should be completed in time for the anniversary
The chapel roof has already been removed and partially renewed.
More work is to be done, after the summer vacation it will be the turn of the church painter.
Wagner does not want to promise whether the chapel will be closed this year by the patronage of St. Emmeram (September 22nd).
"But by the anniversary of Helfendorf in the coming year at the latest, we can look forward to a well-chapel that has been completely renovated."
Holy Emmeram is said to have stopped here
Admittedly, the chapel has a little shadowy existence, because it can neither compete with the parish and pilgrimage church of Sankt Emmeram nor with the torture chapel.
Nevertheless, there is something mystical about it.
Above all through the contained source.
According to tradition, this is said to have served the Celts as a place of worship.
Holy Emmeram is said to have stopped at this spring when he wanted to travel to Rome.
In the interior of the chapel there is an aging wooden figure of the holy bishop.
A text board is attached to the outer wall, although the original has been in the former office of the mayor in the Ayinger town hall for 40 years.
Source with beneficial effects
Up to our time, this source in Kleinhelfendorf has always been ascribed a wonderful, even healing meaning. It is noticeable, according to the former sacristan Hubert Bechteler, that the spring never runs dry and does not freeze even in freezing cold. Nowadays, it seldom happens that someone uses the water, because the water is not exactly clean visually. Not so long ago, however, a professor who was not afraid to use the water was on one of his tours, recalls Bechteler. It is not known that it has harmed him. Even after the remediation, the algae growth is likely to persist in the captured spring. As a reason, our newspaper former mayor Hans Eichler gave the information some time ago: “We have to live with that,it is a very nutrient-rich water that comes from the slope, comes up here to the surface and flows over an overflow into the rainwater channel. "