St. Salvator (Heimbach)

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Catholic parish and pilgrimage church Heimbach old building St. Clemens (r.) And new building Salvatorkirche with Pietà and Antwerp reredos (l.)

The Roman Catholic pilgrimage church of St. Salvator is located in Heimbach in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Düren . The new church is directly attached to the old parish church of St. Clemens .

church

St. Salvator was built between 1978 and 1981 and was consecrated on May 24, 1981. The rectangular floor plan has a size of 32.20 m × 17.20 m. The construction plans come from the architect Karl Heinz Rommé.

The Antwerp carved altar was transferred together with the miraculous image in 1804, during the period of secularization , from the Mariawald monastery to the church in Heimbach. Today the huge winged altar, which is over 500 years old, is the eye-catcher in the modern pilgrimage church . It is probably the most important work of art of its time in the whole of the northern Eifel .

Georg Meistermann designed the large church windows .

Pilgrimage

"Painful Mother of Heimbach" in the Antwerp reredos

Heimbach has been a well-known place of pilgrimage since 1804. Every year believers make a pilgrimage to the Pietà of the "Sorrowful Mother", which is integrated into a huge Antwerp carved altar.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hans Peter Schiffer: Churches, chapels and crosses in the Heimbach urban area . History - construction - equipment. Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2008, p. 28 .
  2. ↑ Hans Peter Schiffer: Churches, chapels and crosses in the Heimbach urban area . History - construction - equipment. Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2008, p. 32 .
  3. ↑ The churches on www.rhein-eifel.tv ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rhein-eifel.tv
  4. ↑ Hans Peter Schiffer: Churches, chapels and crosses in the Heimbach urban area . History - construction - equipment. Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2008, p. 36 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 3.2 ″  N , 6 ° 28 ′ 46.4 ″  E