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Pilgrimage Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary (Klausen)

Pilgrimage Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary (Klausen)

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Pilgrimage Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary (Klausen)

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Location: Klausen, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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1. Moselle Bend at Piesport – Swing bench for your legs and soul loop from Niederemmel

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2. Abbot's Garden – Bauerngebet Mural loop from Klausen

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3. Abbot's Garden – Minheim Shelter loop from Kesten

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JakobusPilger

October 4, 2021

The patronage "Mary (or in another way: Mariae) Visitation" of the Klausen pilgrimage church refers to one of the many commemoration days or festivals in honor of the Blessed Mother Mary. The term "visiting" in the Bible - which is negatively tainted in today's way of expression or thinking - means Mary's visit to her relative Elizabeth.
She is married to Zacharias and the marriage remained childless, which was a social flaw at the time. Despite her old age, she was still pregnant, which the Archangel Gabriel told Maria when he brought her the message that she herself should give birth to Jesus, the Son of God.
The son of Elizabeth and Zechariah is John, nicknamed "the Baptist", who is considered the forerunner / pioneer of Jesus Christ.

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Tamara (unterwegs)

October 9, 2020

The pilgrimage church of the Visitation of Maria in Klausen attracts many visitors every year and is considered to be the most important late Gothic building in the southern Eifel and the Moselle valley. The colorful glass windows and the magnificent interior are particularly impressive.

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Lemmi alias Schlumpf

September 26, 2025

Once a hermit, today over 100,000 pilgrims per year. The people who make pilgrimages to Klausen year after year make this idyllic place in the heart of the Moselle Eifel region one of the most widely known pilgrimage sites in Rhineland-Palatinate. It all began on a small scale: around 1440, Marian devotee Eberhard erected a statue of the "Sorrowful Mother of God" on the site of today's pilgrimage church. In 1442, he built a shrine with a living quarters ("Eberhardsklause") next to the wayside shrine, where he withdrew as a hermit. Subsequently, the place gained notoriety and popularity through reports of answered prayers, so much so that the hermit Eberhard's Marian house was replaced by a larger chapel in 1444. Today, a replica of the original Eberhardsklause can be found in the main nave. After Eberhard’s death (1451), Augustinian canons founded a monastery in 1456,

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Location: Klausen, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Pilgrimage Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary (Klausen)

1. Moselle Bend at Piesport – Swing bench for your legs and soul loop from Niederemmel

2. Abbot's Garden – Bauerngebet Mural loop from Klausen

3. Abbot's Garden – Minheim Shelter loop from Kesten

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