The Basilika fourteen-holy with bath Staffelstein is one of the most well-known pilgrimage churches in Upper Franconia. The place of worship built by Balthasar Neumann is geweiht the holy fourteen emergency aids and receives about one half million visitor per year.

History of the Wallfahrt

After the Jesuskind had appeared three times to the shepherd Hermann easy from long home, the miracle was testified by the Frankenthaler child ring by a miracle: A farm servant, who was heavily gotten sick, was brought to the on which she was wondrously healed. The Cistercian abbey long home gave way to that urge and established for the immediately using Wallfahrt a chapel in honours of the fourteen emergency aids. The Wallfahrt flowered in the consequence on and after the destruction during the farmer war 1525 and the war a larger church was in each case established.

History of the Basilika

On behalf of abbott Stefan planned Balthasar Neumann the Basilika and led the building from 1743 to its death 1753. The building was completed 1772. At the 14.September 1772 the Bamberger prince bishop Adam Friedrich of its home the church weihte. After the secularization 1803 the Cistercians of long home, who cared for the Wallfahrt, had to leave their monastery and also the so-called Propstei in fourteen-holy. Also Wallfahrten were forbidden at this time by church and national side. After a lightning strike 1835 burned the organ, the roof framing and the two towers. 1839 assigned king Ludwig I. of Bavaria the Franziskaner the support of the Wallfahrt, also the church again instandsetzten.1897 raised Pope Leo XIII. Fourteen-holy as the first German church into the rank of a Basilica minor. In the course 20. Century followed still further renovation work.

The grace altar

The Rococo altar with the fourteen emergency aids stands over the place of the features of the shepherd Hermann easy. It is located freely in the area and surrounded by a coming union lattice in heart form. On the side the view is free for the place of the features. The lower part of the altar over-curved of a canopy, decorated with stucco marble, which one look through to the high altar leaves free. 12 emergency aids are attached in three floors to the four; Barbara and Katharina stand at the two lateral altars.

Fourteen the emergency aids

Among the fourteen holy ones rank:

3 bishops:"  

Dionysius  Erasmus  Blasius 

3 martyr inside:"  

Barbara  Margareta  Katharina 

3 knight:"  

George  Achatius  Eustachius 

1 physician:"  

Pantaleon 

1 monk:"  

1 deacon:"  

Cyriacus 

1 boy:"  

Vitus 

Christ child carrier:"  

Christophorus 

The locality fourteen-holy

In fourteen-holy, a quarter of bath Staffelstein, two education houses of the Bamberg and house Frankenthal) are, the hotel "„golden deer "“and the old person monastery brewery, now brewery drunkenness beside the pilgrimage church a Franziskanerkloster.

Related links

• http://www.vierzehnheiligen.de
• http://www.mgl-obermaingeschichte.de/barock/SeitenVierzehnheiligen/14Hl.htm

• http://www.berufsfachschulen-vierzehnheiligen.de

• http://www.bildungshaeuser-vierzehnheiligen.de

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