Mirakelbücher

Example of a printed Mirakelbuch from Dorfen.  Presented by Roland Götz in online lecture.  On the entries from the book is given below:

Elisabetha Obermayrin von Kopffspurg Lengdorffner Pfarr/ 43 years old had a little daughter named Anna age 13. Her kneecaps fell out and her knee swelled up to the size of a child's head, so that she had to crawl for two years and no remedy helped; so the mother consecrated her daughter to Unser Leiben Frauen in the village of  Dorfen and she made votive offerings after which the foot became smaller from day to day and she was able to walk again on the 13th of June in 1708.

Dr. Götz suggested the following research possibilities when studying the Miracle books: 

• Local and parish history

• Family history

• Pilgrimage history: origins and concerns of the pilgrims

• History of piety

• Folklore: Votive customs

• History of medicine: diseases, epidemics, treatment methods

• History of everyday life

• political history: wars

Link to digital collection online: https://www.erzbistum-muenchen.de/spiritualitaet/mirakelbuecher/ by Roland Götz

Pilgrimage sites: https://www.erzbistum-muenchen.de/spiritualitaet/wallfahrten

Link to printed Mirakelbuch in MDZ collection: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb10373879?q=%28Denckw%C3%BCrdige+gnaden,+und+Wohlthaten,+welche+der+allg%C3%BCtige+Gott+mittels+F%C3%BCrbitt%29&page=88,89

Klöckel, Franz Josef von: Die Wallfahrts-Kirche zu Duntenhausen: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb10380508?page=,1

Joseph Brenner from Munchen: https://dfg-viewer.de/show?tx_dlf%5Bdouble%5D=0&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=https%3A%2F%2Fdigitales-archiv.erzbistum-muenchen.de%2Factaproweb%2Fmets%3Fid%3DRep_3b14ab01-4b4f-45a4-aef8-13da2af8517f_mets_actapro.xml&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=151&cHash=f267b5829961090325ec47785715caf3

Mirakelbuch vom Brunnen zu Kirchwald bei Nussdorf: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb00139331?page=,1

Bobfingen: https://archive.org/details/irtenkauf_mirakelbuch_bopfingen_text