- Nörtershausen
The Antonius chapel on the "Hurscht" in Nörtershausen
It was in the year 1901. On a beautiful May day the schoolgirls of the Ursuline convent at Boppard undertook a hike to the Moselle. In Hatzenport, where one of the schoolgirls lived, they thought to have coffee. When the happy group of hikers arrived at the "Hurscht" (near Nörtershausen), singing and chatting cheerfully, some thunderclouds rose on the horizon, but no special attention was paid to them. Suddenly the hikers were startled by a short, terrible crash. Near the Antoniushäuschen, lightning had struck between the group of girls and injured three of the children; the others escaped with their scare. The head of the village at that time, Wilhelm Bildhauer (+ 12.10.2018), immediately offered to bring the injured back to the monastery in Boppard with his cart (ox team). He refused the remuneration offered to him by the sisters for their help, but suggested to the sisters that they could thank Anthony, who had certainly saved the children and thus also the monastery from greater suffering, by making a donation. The sisters then initiated a collection of money among the students, which resulted in the sum of 120 DM. Through a later collection, 60 DM could be added to this amount. On the place where the old, neglected little house of St. Anthony had stood, a somewhat larger chapel in honor of St. Anthony was erected from bricks and alluvial stones in memory of the accident. The amount donated by the monastery quite just to carry out the shell. A brother of Wilhelm Bildhauer, Simon Bildhauer, living in America, sent another 15 dollars (= 66 DM) when he heard about the misfortune and the pious project of his homeland. Anton Bersch from here, veteran of 1870/71 donated a terracotta statue of St. Anthony the Hermit for the chapel. The chapel is open Tragjoch and is visited only not by locals, very well. This location also offers a beautiful view of the Moselle valley and the Maifeld.
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