Notburga of Bühl

Saint Notburga of Bühl is, according to the legend, a Scottish king's daughter, born in 796 at Edinburgh and reposed on 26 January 840 at Bühl. She is patron of the Klettgau.

According to the hagiography, she ascended the throne in 814 and married in 818 the Scottish duke Alboin. After Alboin was slain she fled and settled at Bühl, where on 24 June 820 she bore nine children. The water needed for baptism miraculously sprang from a rock, and with the help of the nearby monastery of Rheinau (today in the canton of Zürich) she built at that place a shelter for strangers, a school and a chapel. On that site the parish church now stands, built in 1707. She devoted herself to the education of the local youth and to deepening the faith in the Klettgau. She was called on for help in the vow to build the mountain chapel of Erzingen.

A daughter of hers was Saint Hixta (Dixta or Hirta), venerated at Jestetten, and a son Saint Eglisius, linked with the Swiss town of Eglisau. Soon after her death people began to make pilgrimages to her grave at Bühl. She is invoked in times of drought and by women and mothers in need. The parish of Bühl celebrates the feast of Notburga each year on 26 January. The sculptor Johann Josef Auer made in 1718 the altar and the statue of Notburga with her nine children. She is honored by the faithful, with a local cult.