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Englmari searches

Each year finds at whit-Monday in st. Englmar in the Bavarian forest “Englmari searches” instead of. After a legend the holy Englmar was killed around the year 1100 from envy by a with brother. From another source one tells, that the murder is to have been committed by an official of the count von Bogen, was assigned, to bring the a settler the meal. A clergyman, like that it is delivered, the corpse of the holy Englmar found at a whit-Monday under brushwood hidden.

The dead one was brought to the funeral in the valley and established from grateful admiration in relation to its life's work a chapel over its burial place. The barrier drivers came numerously and soon could not the small church the crowds any longer seize, so that a new church was built.
To the memory at the Hermit still takes place “Englmari searches”, whereby in a long Procession humans on whit-Monday praying the chapel mountain pull up. There you find a figure of the holy one under brushwood hidden. After a field fair the holy Englmar is brought in a rider course back in the village.



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