page_title: Pilgrimage church
section_title: Germany
hierarchical_section_title: Pilgrimage church / List of Roman Catholic pilgrimage churches / Germany
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: St. Johannes Baptist auf dem Bussen, Offingen (Uttenweiler)
context_page_description: A pilgrimage church is a church to which pilgrimages are regularly made, or a church along a pilgrimage route, like the Way of St. James, that is visited by pilgrims.
  Pilgrimage churches are often located by the graves of saints, or hold portraits to which miraculous properties are ascribed or saintly relics that are safeguarded by the church for their veneration. Such relics may include the bones, books or pieces of clothing of the saints, occasionally also fragments of the cross of Jesus, pieces of the crown of thorns, the nails with which he was fixed to the cross and other similar objects. Pilgrimage churches were also built at places where miracles took place.
context_section_description: Abensberg (Bavaria): Pilgrimage Church of St Mary of the Assumption in the village of Allersdorf
  Abtsgmünd: pilgrimage church of the Sacrifice of Mary (Mariä Opferung) in the village of Hohenstadt
  Aldenhoven: chapel of grace, parish church, Marian pilgrimage
  Altötting: Shrine of Our Lady, Marian pilgrimage
  Andechs: Pilgrimage Church of St. Nicholas and St. Elizabeth, Maria pilgrimage, eucharistic pilgrimage
  Amberg: Pilgrimage Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
  Armsheim (Rheinhessen): former Pilgrimage church of the Precious Blood of Christ
  Beratzhausen: pilgrimage church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
  Bergen bei Neuburg: pilgrimage church of the Holy Cross
  Berlin-Mariendorf: Pilgrimage Church of Maria Frieden
  Beselich: Pilgrimage Chapel of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
  Bettbrunn: pilgrimage church of St Salvator
  Biberbach: St. James the Great, St Lawrence and the Holy Cross - 's Herrgöttle von Biberbach
  Birenbach: Pilgrimage Church of the Dolorous Mother of God
  Birkenstein: pilgrimage chapel of St Mary of the Assumption
  Blieskastel: Holy Cross Chapel, Madonna with the Pfeilen
  Bogen: Bogenberg, St Mary of the Assumption
  Bonn: Kreuzbergkirche
  Bruchhausen (Landkreis Neuwied): Marian pilgrimage church of St. John the Baptist (Zuflucht der Sünder)
  Bussen (Upper Swabia): pilgrimage church of St. John the Baptist
  Cologne: Cologne Cathedral - SS. Peter and Mary (Epiphany)
  Cologne: St. Maria in der Kupfergasse (Black Madonna of Cologne)
  Dahenfeld: St Remigius' Church
  Deggendorf: Pilgrimage Church of the Holy Sepulchre
  Deggingen (Upper Filst valley): Ave Maria (pilgrimage church)
  Dettelbach: pilgrimage church of Maria im Sand
  Düren: St Anne's Church - veneration of the "head of Anna" - a head relic of the mother of Mary
  Durmersheim: pilgrimage church of Maria Bickesheim
  Eckartshausen (Werneck): pilgrimage church of the Visitation of Mary
  Eggerode: pilgrimage church of Birth of the Virgin Mary
  Eibingen: pilgrimage church of St. Hildegard and St. John the Baptisth - burial church of Saint Hildegard and sanctuary for the Eibingen relic treasure.
  Ellwangen: pilgrimage church of St. Mary of Loreto
  Elmstein: pilgrimage church of the Mother of God
  Engelberg: St. Michael over the Main
  Ettal, (Upper Bavaria): Pilgrimage Church of St Mary of the Assumption
  Ettenberg (Marktschellenberg): Pilgrimage Church of the Visitation of Mary
  Etzelsbach, (Thüringen): Pilgrimage chapel of Etzelsbach
  Fahrenberg: pilgrimage to the Holy Hill of the Visitation of Mary
  Freystadt: pilgrimage church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
  Friedberg: pilgrimage church of Herrgottsruh
  Fuchsmühl: pilgrimage church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
  Gößweinstein: Basilica, parish and pilgrimage church of the Holy Trinity
  Gottsbüren (North Hesse)
  Haltern-Bergbossendorf: pilgrimage chapel of Saint Anne
  Hennef-Bödingen: Pilgrimage Church of the Dolorous Mother of God
  Herzfeld (Lippetal): pilgrimage church of St. Ida
  Hirschberg an der Bergstraße: pilgrimage church of St. John the Baptist
  Hohenpeißenberg: pilgrimage chapel and church on the Hoher Peißenberg
  Kälberau: pilgrimage church of Maria zum rauhen Wind
  Kevelaer: chapel of grace, candle chapel and St Mary's Basilica
  Kippenheim: pilgrimage chapel of Maria Frieden
  Klausen (Eifel): pilgrimage church of the Visitation of Mary
  Kleinenberg near Lichtenau in East Westphalia: pilgrimage chapel
  Koblenz-Arenberg: pilgrimage church of St. Nicholas with the Reverend Kraus' Assets (Landscape illustrated Bible)
  Koblenz-Lützel: pilgrimage church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
  Kößlarn: Marian pilgrimage (Bavaria)
  Küblingen (Lower Saxony): Pilgrimage Church of St. Mary
  Lautenbach: Late Gothic pilgrimage church of Coronation of the Virgin
  Leipferdingen: pilgrimage church of St. Michael
  Leverkusen-Alkenrath: Gezelin Chapel
  Löffingen (Baden-Württemberg): Witterschneekreuz
  Ludwigshafen am Rhein-Oggersheim: castle and Pilgrimage Church of St Mary of the Assumption (Ludwigshafen) - pilgrimage to the holy house of Loreto, Marche, pilgrimage site for the Electorate of the Palatinate
  Lünen: St Mary's Church
  Marienberg (Burghausen)
  Maria Gern (Berchtesgaden)
caption: Pilgrimage church of St. John the Baptist (Bussen)
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