page_title: Hörscheid
section_title: Culture and sightseeing
hierarchical_section_title: Hörscheid / Culture and sightseeing
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Inneres des Heiligenhäuschens bei Hörscheid, Pieta
context_page_description: Hörscheid is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Daun, whose seat is in the like-named town.
context_section_description: Besides a chapel consecrated to Saint Brigid of Kildare that was newly built in 1850 with a Baroque altar from 1738, there is also within municipal limits a picturesque Heiligenhäuschen (a small, shrinelike structure consecrated to a saint or saints) that was built in the 1960s with a Pietà made of reddish basalt. Centrally located are, besides the chapel, the fountain square built in 1980, a playground renovated in 2006 with citizens’ personal contributions and a community centre with a fire station.
caption: Pietà in the Heiligenhäuschen