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| Franciscan monastery Engelberg, Miltenberg | ||
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Engelberg Monastery is a Franciscan monastery in Lower Franconia near the place Großheubach.
getting there
By train
By train from Aschaffenburg or Miltenberg to Kleinheubach train station. From here you walk over the Main Bridge to Großheubach and continue up the 612 steps to the monastery.
By bus
In the street
From Großheubach, you can drive directly up to the monastery by car. Large visitor car park. The whole facility is designed to be handicapped accessible.
On foot
From the village of Großheubach 612 stone steps - they are also called angelic echelons because, according to legend, angels are supposed to have carried up the building material - lead up to the monastery.
history
The history of the monastery begins in 1406, when a simple wooden chapel was built on the mountain, which was consecrated to St. Michael. A statue of the Virgin Mary had been erected in the same place about 100 years earlier and is still venerated as an image of grace in the monastery Mary's Chapel. Pilgrimages began and over the centuries the chapel was expanded and improved. In 1630 the Archbishop of Mainz and Elector Anselm Kasimir from the Wambold Kapuziner summoned Engelberg and built a monastery for them. By order of King Ludwig I, Franciscans took over the monastery and the pilgrimage pastoral care in 1828. In 1899 the church was given its present form. Today five brothers still live and work there.
Tourist Attractions
- Viewing terrace. From here you have a wonderful view of the Main valley.
- Francis Garden. This garden, designed in 1998, with the Marian candle chapel, the Franziskusbrunnen and the tables with the sun song of St. Francis invites visitors to linger and meditate.
Pastoral care
Service times in the summerHalf-year (April 9 to October 31): Sundays: 7.30 a.m., 9 a.m., 10.30 a.m. Office, weekdays: 7.00 a.m. Fair
Service times in the winterhalf year (November 1 to April 8): Sundays: 9 a.m., 10.30 a.m. Office, weekdays: 7.30 a.m. St. Mass in the monastery chapel
Confession opportunity from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. and from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Please ring the confession bell!
shop
Since July 2006 there is a monastery shop with souvenir items. Opening times like the Klosterschänke.
kitchen
- Monastery tavern. There has been a pilgrims' room here since 1916 for feeding pilgrims. Over the decades it has been rebuilt and enlarged again and again. Today there is space for over 300 people. There is good and hearty home-style and spicy food that you can also take with you. Examples of this are delicious dark monastery beer from a wooden barrel, wines from the "Engelberger Klostergarten", one of the smallest official locations in Franconia, Emmental cheese, crispy sausage, homemade sausage, cloister ham, spiced bread.Open: daily except Monday (excluding public holidays) 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
accommodation
There are no overnight accommodations in the monastery.
