In the place of the current (lower) Franciscan church was a least one Jewish synagogue. The same was transformed in 1390 into a Lady Chapel and a 1397 Duke St. Stephan. Fair Foundation, then moved. In the chapel was a picture of Mary as "Schutter mother worship from which the legend says that the Jews of frustration for its 1348 instead gehabten expulsion from Ingolstadt stole the picture from the chapel, he sawed off the head and on the shores of the Danube, Upper Ingolstadt hidden, and it was sawed off, but with Head on down into the Danube floated in the muck and had leaned against the Lady Chapel. Since then, the image is considered miraculous image. Duke Max I.berief 1599 at the chapel the Augustinian hermits who built this in 1606 next to a monastery. At the present church was 1739 the cornerstone was laid and on in this 9th October 1740, the miraculous image of the old chapel transferred. In place of the Augustinians came 1804, the Franciscan monastery and church which still hold. prayer. O Mary, you have entered without blemish in the world, ah, I obtain from God that I may depart from it without guilt. (indulgence of 100 days once a day.)
Courtesy the Most Reverend Bishop's General Vicariate Eichstädt.
Carl Pöllath, Schrobenhausen, Bavaria
