Chapel Ruins Zum Heiligen Baum (Arzlohe)

All that remains of the single-nave, late Gothic building are surrounding walls up to five meters high, the portal and an ogival window. The first documented mention dates back to 1508, in connection with a crime committed here. Further notes from the diocese of Eichstätt date back to 1408.

Due to the name “Holy Tree”, it is assumed that this place was already a pre-Christian place of worship. This assumption is not proven, but it is conceivable, as this place lies in the transition between the high mountain “Acropolis of the Celts” and the Houbirg.

The oldest (indirect) evidence of this little church is a note about a church visit by the diocese of Eichstätt in 1480. There a branch church is called "im Paum". According to W. Schwemmer, the name mentioned in 1520, "To the sacred tree", is intended to indicate a pre-Christian place of worship. Other local historians suspect that the single-aisle late Gothic building was created as a plague chapel (several plague waves in the 14th century). 1504 it says "To Paum, a capeln, is called to Sant leonhart".

1508, the chapel - at that time probably already ruin - is mentioned in connection with a murder. In 1733 the chapel in the "Delicae Norimbergensis" is called again. According to records of Pastor Otnets, who worked from 1637 to 1659 in Pommelsbrunn, there was a document (date unknown), after the service was held on six different days before the destruction of the chapel; then probably only to Jacobi. Today, a service is held again on Whitsun Monday, at the Kirchweih and the Waldweihnacht (21st of December - Thomastag).

Absolutely worth seeing, the Arzloher chapel ruins "To the Holy Tree". Services are held several times in the ruins, including on the 2nd day of Pentecost, at the church fair, on the 4th of Advent and at Christmas in the woods on Thomas Day. The services are accompanied by the trombone choir. The oldest (indirect) evidence is a note about a church visitation by the diocese of Eichstätt in 1480.