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Kaysersberg-Vignoble
Quiet fourteenth-century chapel by a riverbank, tied to a centuries-old wool scapular believed to ward off a bad death.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Oberhof Chapel in Kaysersberg-Vignoble follows a fourteenth-century nobleman's private tomb chapel and the much older Carmelite legend that later took it over: a friar's vision of the Virgin Mary and a promise tied to a scrap of brown cloth. You will hear how a local burial site on the Weiss river became Notre-Dame du Scapulaire, a Marian pilgrimage stop for people trying to outrun war, plague, and worse. It touches the chapel's own rebuilding after war damage, centuries before the belief that drew pilgrims here took hold.
This audio guide was created using AI.