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22. Nov. 2013 · But not in Cullman, Alabama. There, at St. Bernard’s Abbey, a Benedictine monastery, the most unique and perhaps most astonishing work of Southern visionary art is still seen by over 60,000 people and pilgrims a year. The Ave Maria Grotto, conceived and built by Brother Joseph Zoettl, is one of the most startling folk installations ...
14. Aug. 2002 · CULLMAN, ALABAMA—In many ways, Joseph Zoettl led an unremarkable life. Born in 1878 in Germany, he immigrated to the United States as a teenager and settled in northern Alabama. Soon afterward he began studying at a newly founded Benedictine monastery, St. Bernard’s, where he took his vows in 1897. He ran the monastery’s power plant and ...
19. Dez. 2022 · The grotto was built by Brother Joseph Zoettl, a Bavarian monk who emigrated to Alabama in 1892. At 4 feet 10 inches tall, Zoettl was a diminutive man, with a permanent hunch from an incorrectly healed broken back.
Artist, Sculptor. The Ave Maria Grotto, known throughout the world as Jerusalem in Miniature, is located on the grounds of St. Bernard Abbey, the only Benedictine Abbey in Alabama. The Grotto consists of 125 miniature stone and cement replicas of famous churches, shrines and buildings from all over the world nestled...
Brother Joseph (formerly Michael Zoettl) was a Benedictine monk born in Bavaria, who spent decades turning cement and junk into a miniature city in Alabama. He was a little guy, less than five feet tall and under 100 pounds. At an early age he was injured in an accident that left him slightly hunchbacked, but luckily didn't hurt his ability to bend over and build tiny things.
28. Sept. 2009 · Brother Joseph Zoettl was born on January 24, 1878, with a difficult life ahead of him. Hunchbacked and poor, he was only 14 when he signed up to join the St. Bernard Abbey hoping to escape his ...
19. Juli 2023 · The grotto’s creator, Brother Joseph Zoettl, was a Benedictine monk who dedicated his life to crafting these intricate replicas over several decades.
