Sanktuarium Maryjne na Chełmskiej Górze w Roku Świętym 1500

St. Mary Sanctuary on Chełmska Góra Mountain in the Holy Year 1500

Summary: In 1500 a map was published in Nuremberg of pilgrimage routes to Rome, which was a host to jubilee celebrations of that year. Nuremberg was the centre of astronomical, mathematical and geographical learning of that period, and German scientific cartography was well represented there. The so-called ŤRomweg Karteť map was prepared and executed mainly for pilgrims' use by Erhard Etzlaub (1460-1532), who was also known as a maker of pocket sun dials. The map presented eight pilgrimage routes leading from the North to Rome, the Holy Capital, using three crossings through the Alps. The Pomeranian tour - from Gdańsk - was the longest at 2082 kilometres (1294 miles). Chełmska Góra (Golnberg Maria) with its chapel, which was passed by pilgrims using the Pomeranian tour, lay in the vicinity of Koszalin (Kosselin), and was the highest hill on the southern coast of the Baltic. The fact that Etzlaub marked this sanctuary in his map - the only one east of the River Odra - with a red dot meant that it was regarded as a sanctified location of greater than just regional importance. The year 1500 was the last year which was not overshadowed by the Reformation.

Peregrinus Cracoviensis, 1998, z.6, s. 163-173.

Instytut Geografii i Gospodarki Przestrzennej UJ

ISSN 1425-1922, ISBN 83-907568-5-4

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