The pilgrimage church Maria help on the Maria helping mountain (in former times also vineyard or Risselberg) over the city new market in the Upper Palatinate, approx. 500 meters over the sea level. Beside the road over the quarter elevator mountain leads also a cross way with 367 stages to the church up, on which the stations of the suffering way Jesu Christi can be after-pursued. The exterior of the baroque church is rather simple and characteristic for modest conditions in the Upper Palatinate, long years after that war. Inside the church however a tender, fine baroque gloss enfaltet itself.

History

Against the year 1677 the Superior P let establish. Gabriel of Braunau of the again established Kapuzinerklosters on the Risselberg of three crosses. 1684 were built after the model of the grave church in Jerusalem a small grave chapel at the mountain, to which a cross way with many stages led. 1687 one errichete in the proximity a wooden Marienkapelle with a copy of a famous Marienbildes (see grace picture Maria-help in Innsbruck) of Lucas Cranach, the older one. At the same time a Eremit pulled on the mountain. First Wallfahrten use and the advice city new market decided, in the times of the Turk danger, the building of a firm church. A role thereby may have played also a blossoming of the Wallfahrten in the close Freystadt. The execution of the building dragged on because of initial building breakdowns the years 1718-1727. The tower was only finished against 1757.

After in the context of the secularization in Bavaria the Kapuziner new market 1802 had to leave, was the Wallfahrt for a long time becomes an orphan. 1907 built the Karmeliten beside the church a small monastery, that scarcely 100 years, with a short interruption during 2. World war, up to the year 2001 a religious center for the barrier drivers and the city new market represented. In August 2001 (due to the shortage of manpower of the medal and despite a collection of 13.000 signatures) the two last inhabitants (Pater Michael and Frater Tarsitius) had to then leave the monastery. Since 2004 are there again some Polish Redemptoristen Patres.

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