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5. Feb. 2017 · Allein zwischen 1820 und 1870 wanderten siebeneinhalb Millionen Deutsche in die USA aus – auch der bayerische Benediktinermönch Joseph Zoettl. Ihn führte das Schicksal nach Cullman in...
Ave Maria Grotto, in Cullman, Alabama, is a landscaped, 4-acre (16,000 m 2) park in an old quarry on the grounds of St. Bernard Abbey, providing a garden setting for 125 miniature reproductions of some of the most famous religious structures of the world.
The Ave Maria Grotto is home to the fruitful labor of Brother Joseph Zoettl, OSB. Br. Joseph was a Benedictine monk of St. Bernard Abbey. Originally from Landschutt, Bavaria-Germany, a young Br. Joseph found himself headed to America to pursue monastic life at Alabama's only Benedictine Abbey.
28. Sept. 2009 · (Sarah McDonald) 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...
The Ave Maria Grotto is a 4 acre park and home to the beautiful creation of Brother Joseph Zoettl. Originally from Landschutt, Bavaria-Germany Brother Joseph was a Benedictine monk of St. Bernard Abbey.
Joseph Zoettl (born Michael Zoettl January 24, 1878 in Landshut, Bavaria; died October 15, 1961 in Cullman) was a Benedictine monk and the creator of the Ave Maria Grotto at St Bernard's Abbey in Cullman. Zoettl, the son of a Bavarian brewer, was enfeebled by heart palpitations and a Europe-wide flu epidemic in 1891.
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.
