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🏛️ Marienweiher Basilica

🏛️ Marienweiher Basilica

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🏛️ Marienweiher Basilica

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Location: Marktleugast, Landkreis Kulmbach, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

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Frankenwald

February 7, 2019

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The papal basilica Marienweiher is a wonderful place of rest and contemplation. The baroque interior is well worth seeing.

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Söhni 🏃

May 3, 2017

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Historically, Marienweiher is the oldest place of pilgrimage in Bavaria - even before Altötting. As in Vierzehnheiligen this basilica was a legend by a pilgrimage. It says that at the …

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Lemmi alias Schlumpf

November 22, 2021

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Every year many thousands of people make pilgrimages to the pilgrimage basilica to the Mother of God of Marienweiher and was first mentioned in a document in 1189 when a carter from Saxony was attacked here and survived this act after invoking Mary. Marienweiher is therefore the oldest Marian pilgrimage site in Bavaria.
In 1993 the pilgrimage church was elevated to the status of a papal basilica by Pope John Paul II.

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