The St. Leonhard St. The fortified church of Penk was built in Romanesque style between the years 1200 and 1250. As a fortified church of worship are known which are provided with means for defense against enemies, such as tin, defense turrets, machicolations (throwing openings) or loop-holes and surrounded with fortifications.
Penker The church served as a chapel, castle hostel and at the same time. It is the hl. Leonhard dedicated. The altar paintings from the early 18th Century show the hl. Leonhard Mary and baby Jesus and St.. Leonhard as shepherds.
Saint Leonard, hermit of Limoges - 6 The November
hl. Leonhard is one of the most revered saint of the Alps. His life story was in the 11th Century in the recorded History of Ademar of Chabannes. Leonard was born in the province of Gaul, near Limousin in central France today. Leonard's parents were from the extended family of Clovis.
One of the best versions of the legend goes to the Dominican monk and archbishop of Genoa, Jacobus de Voragine (+ 1298) back:
"Leonhard said to have lived around the year 500 ... Leonard himself was the king in such grace, that all the prisoners he visited, were soon released. Now grew the fame of his holiness, he asked the king that he will stay with him so that he could give it the right time a bishopric. He refused, however, because his mind was for solitude. ... So Leonard preached, performed miracles and lived in a forest near the town of Limoges. ... It was a day that the king was hunting there, and the Queen was mitgefahren from Kurzweil. Since she was in labor and was in great distress. The king and his servants complained and as Leon walked randomly through the woods ... he took him to the queen, and begged him that he give him again with his prayers and his wife at the birth of his Son's help ... There was praying the saint and his request was granted. The king offered him a large treasure of gold and silver, but he would not take it and warned him that he should give to the poor. He said: "From all this, I need nothing, I desire nothing more than to live alone in these woods, away from all the treasures of the world, and would only serve the Lord God '. Then he wanted to give the king the whole forest. And he said, like the whole forest, not take me, I desire only as much as I can ride round in one night with my ass'. This gave him the King with joy. So he built a monastery on the site ... Here, he was great Miracle. When he called a prisoner in prison called, so the chains pulled at once and he was free of it without him could stop anyone. The prisoner then came to the Saints and earned him his shackles or chains were dar. Many of these liberated by it and serve the Lord. ... Last St. Leonhard went to the Lord shining through so many virtues ... "
customs and worship began
The actual Leonhard cult after the 11th Century, his relics were exhibited to the public. From France it spread rapidly to the south and east, which is also connected with the Crusades, in which Leonhard as the patron saint of prisoners is a particularly important advocate approached. As such, and later as patron of horses and horned cattle him were mainly iron votive offerings, such as horseshoes and chains offered. His designation in Old Bavaria is unbroken and year after year in the big shows Leonhardi trips. His attributes are typical
Abtstab, chain and accounting. His Urpatronat is to protect the prisoners. From this and from his autobiography later developed into the patron of pregnant women, the mentally ill (they too were once held in chains) and all those involved "in some bands are." Leonhard of need absolutely and as a protector of animals. As patron of cattle, he is "in Bavaria to the" Lord Bauer, a helper in every aspect of rural life, the prisoner chain for livestock chain, his feet appear to horses and cattle.
The farmer knows the customs controller:
When rain falls on Leonhardi /'s a bad way with the wheat.
How's weather in Lenardi /'s certainly remain until Christmas.
After many work hard / Leonhardi to honor the horses.
literature
Günther Kapfhammer, St. Leonard's honor, Rosenheim 1977
Sankt Leonhard in his honor. 550 years Leonhardi church in Furstenfeldbruck, ed. Birgitta Klemenz, Furstenfeldbruck 1990
by Dr. Elena Savchenko, Regensburg