Erlöserkirche, Neo-Romanesque church in Wiesbaum, Germany.
The Erlöserkirche Mirbach is a neo-Romanesque church of light brown stone on a grass slope above the Eifel village of Mirbach. A tall tower with a pointed spire and cross rises on its right side, flanked by a small round turret with a green conical roof. The gabled entrance carries three arched windows, and the crossing is crowned by a gable-topped tower modelled on St. Peter in Sinzig.
A baron commissioned the building in 1902, and a German emperor visited it after completion in 1906. This imperial visit later led to similar construction projects in the region.
The name Erlöserkirche (Church of the Redeemer) follows the consecration of the Erlöserkirche in Jerusalem in 1898. The transepts served as private chapels for the donor family, making the church a castle chapel without a castle. The mosaics are by August Oetken, who worked on them at the same time as his mosaics in the Elisabeth-Kemenate at the Wartburg.
The church stands on a grass slope above the Mirbach hamlet, a Wiesbaum district in the Eifel. It is a branch church of the Wiesbaum-Mirbach parish, and upkeep falls to the civil municipality by contract. The transepts served as private chapels of the founding family, so look for the donor memorial stone near the portal.
The church is nicknamed the "Eifeldom" for its size in so small a village. Its crossing tower with gable is modelled on St. Peter in Sinzig, and the transepts served as private chapels for the donor family — a castle chapel without a castle.
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