Pfarrkirche Mariä Heimsuchung, Neoclassical church in Meersburg, Germany.
Pfarrkirche Mariä Heimsuchung is a Roman Catholic church in Meersburg built in the classicist Weinbrenner style. Its square west tower, once a corner tower of the town walls, is almost entirely cut into the nave, which was completed in 1833 and ends in a recessed choir with a five-eighth close. The tower carries a clock with a black dial and white numerals, two tiers of narrow arched windows, and a steep pyramidal roof with a cross and sphere; walls are light beige or white, the roofs covered in green-glazed beaver-tail tiles.
The original tower was built in the 13th century as part of defensive fortifications and still anchors the building today. The present nave replaced an older structure that was demolished to make room for a new construction in the 1820s.
The parish takes its name from the Visitation of Mary, shown on the left side altar carved in 1899 by the Mezger workshop in Überlingen, with Mary and Elizabeth, Zacharias and two angels. The high altar's late-Gothic shrine, made near Weimar in the 15th century and brought here in 2002, shows Mary with the Christ Child among saints, with the Konstanz patrons Conrad and Pelagius on the wings.
The church stands on Stettener Straße in the north of the old town. The tower is almost entirely cut into the nave, and the choir is set back at the east end with a five-eighth close. Gravestones from the former churchyard are set into the wall of the adjacent parking lot.
Medieval gravestones from the old cemetery lie beneath the modern parking lot next to the church, where some are embedded in the walls. These hidden remains tell the story of worshippers who gathered at this site centuries ago.
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