Butcher’s pilgrimage in honor of the Pieta of Salmdorf – district of Munich
What at first glance looks like a walk together goes back to a historically significant event: With the so-called butcher’s pilgrimage, the Catholic Association of Haar and the Munich butchers’ guild, together with associations by name, recall that there was a butcher’s guild in 1803 and butcher who saved the Salmdorfer Pieta in the secularization.
They brought the valuable High Gothic image of Mary from around 1340 from the Munich crypt church to the Salmdorf pilgrimage church to safety. Until 1950, the butchers’ guild held an annual prayer service in Salmdorf – until the old pilgrimage route was interrupted by the runway expansion of the British Riemer airport. It was not until 2015 that the 200-year-old tradition was revived – on Sunday it took place for the second time since then.
In three hours, the participants cover the 13-kilometer route from Marienplatz to the Church of the Assumption in Salmdorf, where a service was celebrated. As befits a butcher’s pilgrimage, food was taken in a butcher’s shop in Ottobrunn along the way, and lunch was served at a steakhouse at the end.