The Holy Sepulcher as an exhibit in Schröding has a long history behind it.
It can only be viewed every three years.
Schröding - time for resurrection: This coming weekend, the almost 120-year-old "holy grave" will again be a central part of the Easter liturgy in Schröding.
This is a sacred work of art more than five meters high in the parish church.
On Good Friday a figure of Christ's body is unveiled in the tomb, on Sunday morning only the shroud can be seen, with the figure of Jesus finally appearing on the tomb.
A team of eight around Mesner Stefan Lachner took care of this church tradition, which is very rare today. They transported the massive individual parts from a storage room in the elementary school to St. Nikolaus and set them up there.
When the carpentry work was acquired in 1904, the founding of the branch in Schröding as an independent pastoral district of the parish of Steinkirchen was only three years earlier.
Holy Sepulcher was already bought in 1904
In the Kirchberg parish chronicle there are indications that the Schrödinger felt neglected in pastoral care by the then Steinkirchen pastor Josef Würf around the turn of the century.
After several attempts, village teacher Reiser, mayor Stänger and innkeeper Forster were successful in the Munich professorship: cooperator Georg Fürst was sent from Feldmoching to Schröding and was expositus (cleric) there until 1909.
The construction of today's vicarage began immediately and in 1904 the Holy Sepulcher, designed by the Maier'sche Kunstanstalt in Munich, was bought for 1200 marks.
It was financed by donations from believers, the transport from Moosburg was taken over by the Lechnerbauer am Anger, also for free, according to the chronicle.
Until the 1960s it was the focus of the liturgy every year as a pictorial representation of the resurrection of Jesus.
After the Second Vatican Council, the custom was lost again.
Over the decades, the Holy Sepulcher fell into oblivion.
Holy tomb only rediscovered after years of searching
About 15 years ago, Bartholomäus Pfanzelt, as chairman of the vintage car friends in Kirchberg, initially unsuccessfully searched for the art object.
In 2008, the old Schrödinger School was about to be demolished, and while clearing out he and then Mayor Hans Grandinger discovered a large part of it in the attic.
Other items were found in the boiler room and in the church tower.
Comrades from the association and the parish were found who set themselves the goal of reviving the custom.
With Heinrich Götz, Georg Nagl and Hubert Glasl, Pfanzelt added missing parts and freed what had been preserved from the traces of time.
The Schrödinger women's community donated 1000 euros to bring the number of decorative glass balls back to 25.
The new ones were blown out of colored glass in Bodenmais, the original ones were filled with brightly colored water.
They last shone in 2019. The effort that Mesner Stefan Lachner made this year with father Alban, church orderly Klaus Reiter, Bartholomäus Pfanzelt and Sepp Gafko from the classic car friends, the lecturers Heinrich Götz and Korbinia Sedlmaier as well as altar boy Raffael Klein, is considerable.
So the decision was made to go every three years.
By the way: everything from the region is now also available in our regular Erding newsletter.
