"I am very proud of our pilgrims - not only because it looks nice, but mainly because so many of Fromm home with their have hands work contributed to their realization. A true community project also.
When my wife in the years 2005/2006, in the annals of Fromm Hausen einlas to do research to know for our 750-year-old village anniversary, no one imagined the consequences resulting therefrom revealed. A Pilgrim named Jacob Beyter was discovered, as it again and it was formed in her the idea to dedicate this almost forgotten Fromm home a pilgrim hostel.
Today we are faced with the hostel and ask how it was possible to get added in such a short time, such a gem.
There is only one answer: Only by joint efforts of many volunteers Fromm Hausener citizens - especially our mayor Kurt Mayer Hall - was made this project possible.
But I want to thank me as chairman of the association in all helpers. A strong thanks also goes to the city of Rottenburg to us again and again brought financial thrusts another piece of our path forward. The same applies to our sponsors who supported us generously!
With the acquisition of the hostel, we also take responsibility for the representative city of Rottenburg. We will always be aware of this responsibility. I want to remember at this point in our booth at the CMT this year, which we at the invitation of the council, Mrs. Feiler is the success, thankfully, were able to apply our hostel and we - as was confirmed to us from all sides - a good figure . charges
Again and again I am asked about the reasons for a hostel for pilgrims in Fromm Hausen.
on a main theme - namely, that of hospitality - I would like briefly.
My wife, Lidwina Hall Mayer, and sometimes I could, even now welcomed about 200 pilgrims in Fromm Hausen and supply in the hostel.
It consistently been a great pleasure and very gratifying to have met these people. To feel the gratitude for a warm "welcome", for still fresh-baked bread scented (From Lidwina), for strong beer pilgrims and comfortable sleeping quarters, was more than the reward for the recent troubles. There were always moments when the farewell to our guests a really hard fall. I hope that more Fromm Hausener share this experience and invite everyone to get involved in the care of our guests with pilgrims.
Hospitable pastoral care is an alternative to the usual handling style of our society, it is believed that the people in our busy world, nothing so good for you like a place where they breathe, breathe, lift up the visor, the weapons can take because they feel: this must I do not bring anything again ... Pastoral care, which sees itself as the hospitality is a space for creative ways of funding to another.
conclusion would make me more aware of our Sternenweg. It reaches from the White Cross to the hostel and symbolizes the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. The forecast had looked after Charles the Great in a dream Sternenweg and James told him to "my pilgrimage to liberate from the Moors, so you can visit my grave." These stars describe the stars of the Milky Way, according to ancient beliefs of the path of souls. Its light is a compass that shows the way to paradise that you used to at the end of the earth - Cap Finistere - suspected.
Finally, I would like to thank pastor victor bait, Dr. Matt and his wife, and the Wagner family, which enabled us to present the artwork at the entrance of our hostel. From then on, it serves as a landmark for our pilgrims accommodation. "
Roland Harris, 1 Chairman 1 August 2010
photos from the festival
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