Overview
- Multiple communities in Bavaria held Leonhardiritt horse processions this weekend, including Schongau, Laisacker, Kienberg and Klingsmoos.
- Schongau staged its long‑running event with a formal mass and a family‑led procession while Laisacker relaunched its procession after a two‑year pause under new organizers.
- Laisacker drew about 45 horses and carriages and hundreds of visitors, reflecting strong local turnout for the revived event.
- Local priests led services and blessed animals, with Stadtpfarrer Ulrich Manz presiding in Schongau and Pfarrer Max Bauer leading the blessing in Laisacker.
- Volunteer clubs, civic leaders and multigenerational families took active roles in the processions, a pattern that helps sustain the cultural role of the medieval Saint Leonard devotion in rural life.