St. Mariä Heimsuchung, Catholic branch church in Breitenholz, Thuringia.

St. Mariä Heimsuchung is a Catholic branch church in Breitenholz that features a baroque high altar originally from a former Franciscan church. The interior includes a manual organ with seven registers that supports the liturgical life of the parish.

The church was built in 1695, and the tower was added later; consecration followed in 1735. Pilgrimage to the site is documented as early as 1668 in a Duderstadt songbook, and Breitenholz has been an official pilgrimage place since 1955. The baroque high altar came from the former Franciscan monastery church of St. Antonius in Worbis.

Pilgrims have come to Breitenholz since 1955, when the village became a pilgrimage site; a Duderstadt songbook already mentions the pilgrimage in 1668. Around the Feast of the Visitation in early July, the statue of Mary with the Child, carved in the second half of the 15th century, is placed on a stone table on the west side of the church and carried through the village in procession after High Mass. The image's origin is unknown.

The church stands in Breitenholz, a village in the Eichsfeld district, and is a branch church of the parish of St. Maria Magdalena in Leinefelde. The pilgrimage falls around the Feast of the Visitation at the beginning of July, when the statue is placed on a stone table on the west side of the church and carried through the village after High Mass. Outside that day the building is a village church rather than a staffed site, so visits depend on local arrangements.

The tower was added after the nave, and its slate-covered upper section with two arched louvered openings ends in a small lantern with red-framed openings and a cross, not a pointed spire. The miraculous image's origin is unknown; the statue is set on a stone table at the west side on the pilgrimage day.