Visitation of the Virgin Mary (Holtum)
St. Mary's Visitation is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage chapel in the Wegberg district of Holtum in the Heinsberg district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The chapel or the miraculous image in it is the goal of an annual pilgrimage , which takes place at the end of June and beginning of July. The highlight of the pilgrimage is the annual Holtumer Octave .
The building is entered under number 48 in the list of architectural monuments in Wegberg .
history
In 1644 the Reiners built a small half-timbered chapel in Holtum. This was consecrated on August 14, 1667. A wooden figure of Our Lady was placed in this chapel . As early as 1677 the chapel was demolished because it had become dilapidated. A brick Loreto chapel was then built and consecrated in 1684. A Joseph chapel was added to this in 1757. In 1888 the church was enlarged by a much larger sacrament chapel according to plans by the architect Lambert von Fisenne . This was on June 21, 1894 consecrated . Between 1914 and 1916 the entire complex was restored and decorated between 1922 and 1923.
Until January 1, 2013, Holtum was a chapel parish of the Beeck parish of St. Vincentius. Since this was dissolved, Holtum has since been part of the new large parish of St. Martin Wegberg.
architecture
The Loreto Chapel is a rectangular baroque building with a slate mansard roof , on which there is a hexagonal roof turret. The building consists of bricks and is structured on the outside with ashlar. Inside the chapel is spanned by a barrel vault. The much larger sacrament chapel, designed by Lambert von Fisenne, is in the neo-Gothic style , also made of bricks. The nave is single-nave and three-bay . A rectangular choir adjoins the nave , to which a sacristy is attached to the left and right . The building is spanned by a ribbed vault . On the gable roof is a square roof skylights.
Furnishing
In the Loreto Chapel there is the miraculous image of Our Lady in the midst of baroque furnishings. Furthermore, a stained glass window from the Düsseldorf company Hertel & Lersch from 1914 has been preserved. It depicts the seven sorrows of Mary . Four stained glass windows in the Sacrament Chapel are works by the Düsseldorf company Gassen & Blaschke from 1890. One window is a work by Oidtmann in Linnich from 1946, two other works by the artist Frans Deumes from 1946 1962. The furnishings of the sacrament chapel include the tabernacle , a modern folk altar , neo-Gothic benches and also neo-Gothic confessionals . The organ with 23 registers is a work of the Werler organ building company Gebrüder Stockmann from 1988.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernd Limburg's website, accessed on January 2, 2016
- ↑ RP Online Article: Churches prepare parish merger, accessed on January 2, 2016
- ^ Website of the 20th Century Research Center for Stained Glass Foundation, accessed on January 2, 2016
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Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 12.9 ″ N , 6 ° 18 ′ 8.2 ″ E