SAKRALA - Eifel Museum for Christian folk and church art

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The SAKRALA - Eifel Museum for Christian Folk and Church Art has been in the former secondary school in Huppenbroich in Simmerath since 2000 and is currently housed in the old Huppenbroich sacristy.

The exhibition is divided into five main areas: ecclesiastical art, veneration of Jesus and saints, devotion to Mary, Christian home and Christian life and death. The 2000 objects of religious life on display include crosses, pictures, representations of angels, holy water stoups, figures of saints, rosaries, cribs and other exhibits. The collection goes back to Kurt Poschen, the sponsoring association was founded in 2001. However, as early as 2002, the site could no longer be made accessible to the public due to fire protection regulations and the association initially made do with a traveling exhibition. He was later given permission to exhibit his collection in the area of ​​the six windows of the old Huppenbroich sacristy, which is thematically offered as individual temporary projects due to the smaller space.

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Individual evidence

  1. Sakrala makes a stopover in Monschau , in: Aachener Zeitung of December 2, 2002

Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 22.3 "  N , 6 ° 18 ′ 57.6"  E