Filial Church of St. Peter Canisius

The filial church in Kolmberg was built in 1932 as a Romanesque granite block building. The church is a gable-fronted and hipped saddle roof building with a recessed apse and gable roof turret. The small church was quickly built thanks to donations from the population, the provision of building materials and the free performance of manual and hauling services. A building made of fieldstone blocks typical of the landscape was created. The building was dedicated to St. Peter Canisius.
The church's patron, Peter Canisius, was born on May 8, 1521 in Nijmegen in the Duchy of Gelderland in what is now the Netherlands. He was a theologian and writer, one of the first German Jesuits and an influential spiritual and political champion of the Counter-Reformation. He wrote the first Catholic catechism after the Reformation. The Catholic Church considers Peter Canisius to be the second apostle of Germany after Boniface, a saint and a teacher of the church. Peter Canisius died on December 21, 1597 in Freiburg im Üechtland in Switzerland.

Source: Excerpts from wikipedia.de / pfarrei-grafenkirchen.de

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October 30, 2021

Church built in 1932 from field stone quatern. Not far from the main road, a way of the cross (tarred road) goes up to the Kalvarienberg. In the Kalvarienberg chapel there is a life-size baroque statue of the Virgin Mary.

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