Various legends have grown up around the pear hill: Because a gray horse died miserably there, it is said to be haunted there today.
Just like other horror figures.
Ascholding - Everyone says "Birn" to Georgibichl, the hill in front of Ascholding.
And St. George's Church is just the “Schimmelkapelle” for everyone.
Both names go back to ancient and extremely ugly sagas and their main characters.
To understand them, you have to go back a little: According to legend, the tip of the pear was once a pagan place of worship where macabre rituals were celebrated: the Germanic gods are said to have sacrificed horses here to the Germanic god Wotan (also called Odin).
Many centuries later - probably in the Middle Ages - the St. Georg chapel was built on the Birn.
An old, pagan sacrificial stone is built into its walls.
Haunted chapel: Are horses, dragons and a witch haunted on this hill in Bavaria?
It is said to this day that a white horse, a gray horse, ran around the area around the church.
Some claim that the mold was settled there as an excuse to the saints for the animal offerings of previous generations.
Others think they know that it was placed there symbolically for the Christian martyr George.
Anyway: The Schimmel is the namesake of the chapel.
Birn in Ascholding: A horse stands in the center of the legend - Schimmelkapelle named after him
One evening, probably during a terrible thunderstorm, the animal fled to the small chapel to get away from lightning and thunder.
But the storm let the door fall shut behind the horse - the horse was trapped.
There are two versions of how this story ended.
The less beautiful: The animal starved to death in the chapel, and at some point people found the horse's skeleton in front of the altar.
The second variant of the story has a happy ending: with the last of its strength, shortly before starvation, the horse pulled the bell rope with its mouth, the Ascholdinger heard this, stormed to the church and saved the white horse from its predicament.
Dragons, witches, a ghost dog: there are many legends about St. George's Chapel
Since then, the restless spirit of the four-legged friend has been said to hunt regularly across the meadows and through the Birn forest.
The horse is - at least according to legend - in good company: raftsmen once told of a fire-breathing dragon that roams the hill.
A huge ghost dog with glowing red eyes and a gruesome howl is said to have been spotted up there.
A witch, the "Büan", also frightened people on the Georgibichl.
At some point the terrifying figure, who is said to have looked like an ancient woman, was probably called "pear" - just like her hill today.
Legend of home in series
In our “Legendary Homeland” series, we present sagas and legends from the region in random order.
For example, about a pilgrim who fell victim to a devious murder plot.
Or about a magical stream in Wolfratshausen, which - according to a legend - is said to have healed lovesickness and pain.
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