Visitation of the Virgin Mary (Beurig)

Parish Church of the Visitation from the southeast

Parish Church of the Visitation from the north-west

The Catholic parish church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary is a listed church building in Beurig , a district of Saarburg in the Trier-Saarburg district in Rhineland-Palatinate .

history

The Legend of 1304 was a statue of Mary found leaning against a tree. A chapel was built for this miraculous image . This soon became too small for the influx of pilgrims . The Archbishop of Trier Johann von Baden had a new chapel built in 1479. This was by the Archbishops Johann III. von Metzenhausen and Richard von Greifenklau expanded from 1512 to 1529 with a spacious nave . The old chapel thus became the aisle. The Franciscan Province of Cologne set up a convent in 1608 . In 1695 the church was expanded to include a two-storey monks' choir. The monastery was dissolved in 1802 in the course of secularization . The church became a parish church.

description

Miraculous image

The late Gothic hall church has a main nave that, together with the choir, comprises five bays . The side aisle, the former chapel of grace, has four bays, and the tower stands in the place of the fifth bay. The monk's gallery is connected to the former convent house and opens up to the nave through a triumphal arch . The rooms are spanned by late Gothic star vaults. The keystones are figurative representations or coats of arms .

Furnishing

• Stone altar of grace from 1622, this is a major work by Johann Manternach. Busts of the master and his wife stand on side consoles in the lower altar.
• Wooden miraculous image of the Madonna and Child dating from around 1400, it was re-clothed and taken .
• War memorial from 1922 on the forecourt.

literature

• Ernst Wackenroder : The art monuments of the Saarburg district . (= Paul Clemen (Hrsg.): Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz , Volume 15, III. Department). L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1939 (reprint from the Academic Bookshop Interbook, Trier 1982), 51–59.
• Reclam's Art Guide Germany III, Monuments, Rhineland and Westphalia, 1975, ISBN 3-15-008401-6 .

Web links

Commons : Visitation of the Virgin Mary  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description and photos (PDF; 463 kB)
• Report on the pilgrimage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reclam's Art Guide Germany III, Monuments, Rhineland and Westphalia, 1975, ISBN 3-15-008401-6 , pages 633 and 634

Coordinates: 49 ° 36 '16.9 "  N , 6 ° 33' 42.9"  E