Bödingen Monastery

The Bödingen Monastery in Bödingen, a district of Hennef, was built in 1424 next to the pilgrimage church of the Sorrowful Mother of God, which had already been consecrated in 1408.

Around 1350, the simple worker Christian von Lauthausen had the vespers picture of the "Mater Dolorosa" carved in a Cologne workshop after an apparition of the Virgin Mary and initially set it up in a wayside shrine next to his hermitage in the forest near Altenbödingen. Because of the many pilgrims, he wanted to build a chapel for this Pietà there, but this did not succeed because the walls kept collapsing overnight. There he had again a shining apparition of the Mother of God, who commanded him to load his mule and follow it. The chapel was then built where the mule stopped in the wilderness, namely at the intersection of the path from Oberauel to Nutscheidstraße.

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