Rießerkopfstraße
Rießerkopfstraße 3.
Saint Florian by Franz Winterhöller, 1977.
Rießerkopfstraße 7.
Rießerkopfstraße 26.
Rießerkopfstraße 28.
Patrona Bavaria by Sepp Guggemoos, 1986.
Rießerkopfstraße 29.
According to Heinrich Bickel – The Fresco Painter from Werdenfels, published in 1990, the lüftlmalerei on the wall of Rießerkopfstraße 40 is that of Saint Notburga giving bread to children, signed by Heinrich Bickel’s daughter, “M.B.”, Moidel Bickel, in 1969.
However, the painting depicts a young woman feeding needy children with a basket of roses — which seems to be the “miracle of roses” of Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia.
Saint Elizabeth (1207 – 1231) was a princess of the Kingdom of Hungary, who was married at the age of 14.
Legend has it that, one day while taking bread to the poor in secret, she met her husband on a hunting party, who, in order to quell suspicions that she was stealing from the castle, asked her to reveal what was hidden under her cloak. In that moment, her cloak fell open and a vision of white and red roses could be seen, rather than the food she had hidden.
A similar legend has it that Saint Notburga, a servant girl, was also confronted for secreting castle leftovers to the poor. Except, when Notburga was caught, her accuser saw visions of wood shavings and lye — rather than roses — in her basket.
Rießerkopfstraße 41, 42, and 43.
Three separate but matching lüftlmalerei by Gerhard Ester: Saint George slaying a dragon, Patrona Bavaria, and Saint Martin.
This particular image of the beggar with Saint Martin seems to be based on the one painted by Heinrich Bickel at Höllentalstraße 30.
This particular image of Saint George seems to be based on the one painted around 1790 by Josef Gegenhart on a building in Lechtal, Austria — a photograph of that lüftlmalerei can be found on page 108 of the book Bemalte Fassaden (1975).
