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Ansverus Cross Pilgrimage Site

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Einhaus

Ansverus Cross Pilgrimage Site

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Location: Einhaus, Herzogtum Lauenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

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1. Kastanienweg – Ansverus Cross Pilgrimage Site loop from Ratzeburg

19.3km

01:21

110m

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2. Ratzeburg Lake – View of Behlendorfer See loop from Pogeez

28.2km

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190m

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JR56

March 30, 2021

Ansverus (also Ansuerus, German Answer) (* 1038 in Schleswig / Haithabu; † July 15, 1066 near Ratzeburg) was a Benedictine monk. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church.

Ansverus came from a noble and wealthy Saxon family and was brought up in the Christian faith. At the age of 15, following a dream, he traveled to Ratzeburg, which belongs to the Abodritic Empire, under a pretext to enter the Benedictine monastery of St. George on the mountain. In the monastery he became a priest and monk with a serious orientation towards the Benedictine rule and a strong missionary commitment, which brought some success. The Polabians, who have lived around Ratzeburg for around 300 years, worshiped the goddess Siwa on the nearby Ratzeburg island. In the summer of 1066 the Abodrites rose against their Christian ruler Gottschalk. Church and monastery were partially destroyed. On July 15, the abbot Ansverus was captured with his 18 monks, brought to Einhaus near Ratzeburg and killed there by stoning on the Rinsberg. He died a martyr at the age of 28.

Ansverus was first buried in the ruins of the Church of St. George on the Mountain. In 1170 his bones were transferred to the recently completed Ratzeburg Cathedral.

Since the middle of the 15th century, a wheel cross made of Gotland limestone, the Ansverus cross, has stood in memory of the presumed stoning near Einhaus. Since 1950, a pilgrimage of the Catholic Church has taken place there on the second Sunday in September.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansverus

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Sascha

May 24, 2019

Old place of pilgrimage with good information board

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Location: Einhaus, Herzogtum Lauenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Ansverus Cross Pilgrimage Site

1. Kastanienweg – Ansverus Cross Pilgrimage Site loop from Ratzeburg

2. Ratzeburg Lake – View of Behlendorfer See loop from Pogeez

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