Eichenrieder pilgrimage: on the way to the Mother of Grace for 100 years
Created: 05/20/2022, 11:00 am
By: Veronica power
Many believers have always joined the Eichenried foot pilgrimage.
Our picture shows the 75th anniversary in 1997. © Private
The Eichenried pilgrimage is celebrating a proud anniversary this year: Pilgrims have been starting from here in the direction of Altötting for 100 years.
This year they start on Saturday, June 4th at 2 a.m.
Eichenried
– A group of pilgrims has been making their way to Altötting in Eichenried on Pentecost for 100 years.
This was not possible for two years due to the corona restrictions.
This year the pilgrimage will take place again.
The motto for the anniversary: "Under your protection and shield...".
The Eichenried tradition of pilgrimage goes back a long way.
Since the settlement of the Moosinninger Moos around 1851, Mösler went to Altötting with the Ismaninger pilgrims on foot.
However, it is no longer possible to determine exactly why there was later a separate group of pilgrims in Eichenried.
One reason could have been the founding of the Warriors and Veterans Association in 1922 by returning soldiers.
At least it is reported that the soldiers went on a thanksgiving pilgrimage.
It is also speculated that the people of Ismaning chose a different pilgrimage route because of the construction of the Middle Isar Canal.
Perhaps it was also due to the Eichenried emergency church, which was consecrated in 1920 and gave the citizens the necessary self-confidence to organize a pilgrimage on their own.
Big moment: On the 90th anniversary of the Eichenried pilgrimage ten years ago, Prelate Ludwig Limbrunner (centre) blessed the Eichenried jubilee candle.
There were (from left) Georg Scheckenhofer, Georg Scheckenhofer jun.
and Deacon Dieter Spöttl.
© Aigner
Dieter Spöttl has been leading the Eichenried pilgrims to Altötting since the mid-1980s.
In the first Corona year, when no pilgrimages were allowed to take place, he walked this path alone - with the concerns of numerous believers in his luggage.
In 2021, individual pilgrimages were allowed.
The 59-year-old deacon is pleased that group pilgrimages are now possible again for the 100th anniversary.
"We concentrate on the essentials," says Spöttl.
"This primarily includes making the believers an organized offer to walk together in faith and to carry all their concerns - be it thanks, requests or worries - in prayer, in reflection or simply walking to Altötting."
There was a chronicle for the 80th anniversary of the Eichenrieder pilgrimage in 2002.
In it, Spöttl wrote that as a pilgrim guide, he had made it his task to "create a framework that would motivate as many people as possible to set out with us".
Not because a record number of participants is important to him, "but because this 'power source of pilgrimage' should be made accessible to as many people as possible".
This principle still applies today.
With a backpack full of concerns, Dieter Spöttl set out during Corona.
© Barbara Just
This year's anniversary candle shows the miraculous image of Altötting and Brother Konrad.
The motto of the pilgrimage is "Under your protection and protection...".
It is taken from the oldest Marian prayer "and connects us with the pilgrims from Regensburg and Hallbergmoos-Goldach," explains Spöttl.
The latter had asked this year whether they could join from Hörlkofen.
"Of course, that's very welcome, especially for the anniversary," says the deacon.
"Because the community is important to us pilgrims, the community spirit, also on site in Altötting, even if we come from different directions." How many pilgrims will join the 100th Eichenrieder foot pilgrimage?
"We have no feeling at all," says Spöttl on behalf of the entire organization team.
Some are still skeptical about the Corona situation.
Others wanted to go again
because they have had to do without it for so long now.
At the end of the day, more than 200 participants took part
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Traditionally, the Eichenried foot pilgrimage starts on Whit Saturday, June 4th, at 2 a.m. at the parish church of St. Joseph Eichenried with a spiritual warm-up before setting out for Hörlkofen.
There the train leaves at 6.38 am via Mühldorf to Heiligenstatt.
What is new is that no group tickets can be bought this year, but that everyone has to look for tickets for the train on their own responsibility.
Arrival in Altötting is at 9.45 a.m.
At 2 p.m. the Holy Mass for the anniversary will be celebrated in the Brother Konrad Church, and at 5 p.m. there will be a prayer service with the Regensburg pilgrims in the collegiate church in front of the miraculous image.
At around 9 p.m., a candlelit procession around the Chapel of Grace concludes Pentecost Saturday.
The arrival back in Eichenried is planned for Pentecost Sunday around 7:15 p.m.
On Whit Monday there will be Holy Masses in Moosinning (9 a.m.) and Eichenried (10.30 a.m.) with the intention of the pilgrims.
The pilgrims cover a total of around 36 kilometers back and forth this weekend.
Deacon Dieter Spöttl provides information and information by e-mail to d.spoettl@gmx.de or by phone (01 74) 7 23 13 88.
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