Eichlberg, Baroque pilgrimage church in Hemau, Germany
The Eichlberg church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, is a Baroque building by Giovanni Battista Camessina constructed from 1697 to 1711. It encloses the earlier grace chapel of 1693–1695, which holds the painting of the Coronation of Mary by the Holy Trinity by Johann Held of Stadtamhof. The interior has three Baroque altars but no stucco decoration, giving it a somewhat austere appearance.
Giovanni Battista Camessina, a Graubünden master builder in the service of the neighbouring Prince-Bishopric of Eichstätt, built the church between 1697 and 1711. It encloses an earlier grace chapel erected between 1693 and 1695, which holds Johann Held's painting of the Coronation of Mary by the Holy Trinity. On 1 January 1972 the hamlet was incorporated into Hemau together with Berletzhof.
The church is the seat of the Brotherhood of the Most Holy Trinity, attached to the Trinitarian Order founded by Saints John of Matha and Felix of Valois to ransom Christian captives from Islamic captivity. Their images hang inside, and the brotherhood's festival is held each year on Trinity Sunday, the Sunday after Pentecost.
The church stands on a cone-shaped hill about 582 m high, visible far across the Upper Palatinate Jura as a landmark. The Kirchweih is held on the second Sunday in September, the patronal feast on 12 September (Mariä Namen), and the brotherhood festival on Trinity Sunday, the Sunday after Pentecost, when pilgrims come up the hill and a market is held at the same time.
The church holds paintings of Saints John of Matha and Felix of Valois, founders of the Trinitarian Order, which ransomed Christian captives from Islamic captivity. The brotherhood based here, the Bruderschaft von der heiligsten Dreifaltigkeit, still holds its annual festival on Trinity Sunday, the Sunday after Pentecost.
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