The chapel, located at the confluence of the Kötschdorfer Bach and Schilterbach rivers, was founded by Sophie Breu and built in 1955. Sophie Breu as director of the Schlenzkurheim St. Michael was a great admirer of the apparition of Mary from Banneux, Belgium, in 1933. The chapel is owned by the Episcopal Administration of Regensburg.

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Staufer

May 10, 2024

Banneux Chapel, Schilternbach

Sixty years ago, the small Chapel of the Virgin Mary was built east of Wernberg – tucked away between forest and meadows at the confluence of the Kötschdorfer Bach and Schilterbach streams. It was sometimes called "Madonna im Wiesengrund" or "Maria im Firn" (Our Lady of the Meadows) or "Mary in the Pine Trees." The open, circular structure is dedicated to Our Lady of Banneux.
During the Rosary Service on October 27, 1955, hundreds of believers marched in a candlelight procession with the statue of the Virgin Mary from the parish church of St. Anna to the newly built chapel on the Schilterbach stream to dedicate it to the Blessed Virgin of the Poor and Sick.
The chapel was donated by Sophie Breu. Sophie Breu, director of the Schlenz sanatorium St. Michael, was a great admirer of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary at Banneux in Belgium. According to the report, Joan Jacob, the pastor of Banneux, where Our Lady is said to have appeared eight times to twelve-year-old Mariette Beco between January 15 and March 2, 1933, traveled specifically for the consecration and brought the statue with him.
For many years, the Wernberg Chapel on the Schilterbach stream was a frequent meeting place for May devotions, October rosaries, and supplication processions. The construction of several chapels and the emergence of Marian veneration sites can be traced back to the initiative of Sister Sophie Breu. She ran the well-known Schlenz sanatorium in Wernberg. The many letters of thanks from her patients, which still exist today, testify to her many successful healings. The advertising slogan was "Operation without knife and blood."
Sophie Breu, a native of Wernberg, joined the Order of the Sisters of Mercy in 1928 after training as a nurse and nurse. She learned the methods of medicinal herbal and hyperthermic baths from Maria Schlenz. From humble beginnings, she began her own business in 1937 and worked with perseverance and tenacity toward her life's goal of helping the sick with this method.

The chapel is owned by the Regensburg Episcopal Administration.

Source: Excerpts from onetz.de/deutschland-und-die-welt-r/lokales/zur-madonna-im-wiesengrund-d1014170.html

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Melanie

November 29, 2020

Nice little chapel by the stream. Very picturesquely laid out

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