Photo Essay: Journey Through Spiritual Bavaria

Karin Leperi makes a trip to a region called home by a current pope as well as where one million pilgrims make an annual mass departure to Altoetting to revisit a Black Madonna.

[All photos credit to writer solely where noted]

St. Peter's Cathedral, Regensburg

1. St. Peters Cathedral in Regensburg Once deliberate to be a richest locale in all of southern Germany because of a preponderance of buildings crafted in stone; today, Regensburg a UNESCO World Heritage Site is arguably one of a best-preserved Gothic towns in Germany. St. Peters Cathedral is a devout core of town, with gothic rib-vaulted ceilings as well as full of color stained potion windows dating behind to a 13th as well as 14th centuries. Pope Benedict XVI was a highbrow of theology during a University of Regensburg from 1969 1977, as well as remains an honorary highbrow to this day. He is quoted as saying, I unequivocally feel during home here.

Historical Sausage Kitchen

2. Historical Sausage Kitchen Regensburg lays explain to having a oldest recorded mill overpass in Germany as well as some of a best sausage to be found in Bavaria. The Historical Sausage Kitchen, during a foot
of a bridge, presumably dates behind to a 12th century, when a overpass was built. Today, it provides nourishment for devout seekers.

Passau upon a Danube

3. Passau upon a Danube Passau is located in southeast Germany, along a Austrian border, where a Danube River flows past a great Bavarian Forest. Because Passau is situated during a connection of 3 rivers a Danube, Inn as well as Ilz it is also well known as Bavarian Venice.

St. Stevens Cathedral in Passau

4. St. Stevens Cathedral in Passau St. Stevens Cathedral is located upon a aged towns highest point. It is built in Italian Baroque style.

Worlds Largest Cathedral Organ

5. Worlds Largest Cathedral Organ Within St. Stevens Cathedral is a worlds largest cathedral organ. It contains 17,974 organ pipes, 233 stops, as well as 4 carillons.

New Bishops Residence in Passau

6. New Bishops Residence in Passau Built in a early 18th century when Passau was capital of a largest parish of a Holy Roman Empire, a New Bishops Residence right away houses chronological treasures. The rococo stairways are worth a peek.

Passau

7. Passau Glass Museum Possibly a most pleasing potion residence in a world, a museum houses glass-work from 16501950, with pieces from a Baroque, Rococo, Empire, Biedermeier, Historism, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, as well as Modernism periods. There is a special importance upon artisans as well as works representing Silesia, Bohemia as well as Bavaria.

Burghausen

8. Burghausen Castle On a highway from Passau to Altoetting, is a longest castle in Europe. Burghausen Castle is a Gothic military base originally built to protect locals against seiges by a Turks as well as successive advances by a Swedes.

Altoettings

9. Altoettings Chapel of Mercy The Chapel of Mercy a small, octagon-shaped church believed to have been built around a year 680 is deliberate to be a devout core of Bavaria. About 1 million people revisit a tabernacle annually to see its most precious artifact, a Black Madonna, which is housed inside a chapel. About 30,000 pilgrims arrive upon foot to honor a Madonna. Some compare a devout stress of Germanys Black Madonna of Altoetting with Frances Lady of Lourdes.

Black

10. Black Madonna of Altoetting The tabernacle chapel, a oldest of its kind in Germany, is hewn from volcanic rock. Inside, a linden-wood carved Black Madonna is suspicion to have darkened when discovered from glow in a year 970. Others speculate that a darkened timber is a outcome of constant exposure to candle soot as well as smoke. Whatever a reason, most miracles have been attributed over a years to a Black Madonna of Altoetting. [Photo: Altoetting Tourism]

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