Holy Cross Chapel Ahle

During Lent, the Ahl Hunger Cloth accompanies us in the Holy Cross Chapel in Ahle. On March 1, 1968, the new "Hunger Cloth" drew attention in the altar area of the Ahle Chapel. Likely at the suggestion of former teacher Ms. Theresia Reinersmann and after consultation with the Dalwigk family, textile artist Lotte Bach from Schapdetten designed five working drawings for a new Hunger Cloth in the autumn of 1966. The 70-year-old Carola Freiin von Dalwigk from Lichtenfels in Enschede had volunteered to create this Hunger Cloth in a size of 4.15 x 3.17 m using the old filet embroidery technique with handwoven linen. After 15 months of diligent and unpaid work, she gifted the new Hunger Cloth to her home community of Holy Cross Ahle in the spring of 1968. This Hunger Cloth is both traditional and contemporary. It is structured by the large dominating cross-shaped central field and small square fields in the four corners. In accordance with the Münsterland models, the alternation of closed white linen areas and designed transparent fields is also characteristic of this Hunger Cloth. The five images represent the five so-called "Mysteries of the Sorrowful Rosary":

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