The crucified woman with the full beard

The Kümmerniskapelle in pastettes is a very special gem.

Pastetten - If you drive from Pastetten in the direction of Poigenberg, you will see a small chapel at the end of the village, which is striking due to its peculiar architectural style.

It is the Kümmerniskapelle.

Anton Eckert from Preisendorf dedicated a film to her, which will be shown on Saturday, November 20th, in the Pastetten parish hall.

The plastered brickwork is two meters high, on which rests a boarded knee-high with a mighty tiled roof, which is supported on one side by two massive square columns.

A barred wooden door blocks the view inside.

If it weren't for a small hatch that reveals a brightly painted wooden altar wall.

There hangs a cross with a curious figure as the center: a slender woman with long hair, a full beard and overlong arms, who is nailed to the cross on her hands and feet.

Research in the little chapel book of the former district home keeper Wolfgang Schierl shows that it is about Holy Sorrows.

“There used to be a votive picture in the chapel showing several burning houses of pastettes.

Perhaps in this emergency the Holy Sorrows were invoked, ”writes Schierl.

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The chapel was built in honor of the Holy Sorrows who crucified her father.

© Peter Bauersachs

It is a fictional folk saint whose legend originated in the late Middle Ages. She is depicted as crucified in a long robe, bearded and crowned. She was neither canonized nor officially recognized as a saint by the Church. In the Netherlands at that time, the oldest textual traditions of transcripts written in the vernacular date from the middle of the 15th century. They tell of the converted to Christianity daughter of a pagan king who resisted a marriage forced by her father. Her pleading prayers to be defaced to avoid marrying a pagan were answered: you grew a beard. The angry father then had the virgin executed "in the manner of her crucified God" by crucifixion, so the legend goes.

The original chapel was built in 1870.

Most recently it stood on private property, in 2013/14 the chapel - also known as the Lutzenkapelle - was saved from deterioration and moved to the street Am Freibach.

Some parts have been restored for this.

The majority had to be redone due to the dilapidation.

The wooden roof, for example.

Numerous donors and helpers had contributed to this.

The previous owner is Anton Hartmaier.

He has kept the depiction of the fire from 1850 that destroyed five properties.

“Perhaps the chapel was built as a thank you, because not the whole village fell victim to the flames,” the pensioner suspects.

PETER BAUERSACHS

Film screening

In his new film, Anton Eckert from Preisendorf traces the Holy Sorrows, to which a chapel is dedicated in pastettes.

This film will be shown on Saturday, November 20, at 2 p.m. in the Pastetten parish hall.

The current requirements from the Bavarian Infection Protection Ordinance apply at this point in time - the 2G rule applies.

It is necessary to register in the Pastetten parish office, Tel. (0 81 24) 12 52 or by e-mail st-martin.pastetten@ebmuc.de.