Nevigeser Wallfahrtsdom

The Nevigeser Wallfahrtsdom is a pilgrimage church on the Hardenberg in the Neviges district of the City Velbert. It was designed by Pritzker Prize winning architect Gottfried Böhm. Construction began in 1963, and the church was consecrated in 1968. The church is built in the Brutalist Style

History of the Pilgrimage

The origin of the pilgrimage in Neviges was an appearance of Mary to the Franciscan Monk Antonius Schirley in 1676. Schirley was performing his daily prayer before a small painting of the Virgin Mary This apparition took the form of a voice he heard while praying, it said "Take me to the Hardenberg, I wish to be worshiped there!" Schirley delivered the painting of Maria to a chapel in Hardenberg-Neviges. Some years later Ferdinand von Fürstenberg claimed to have been healed by the painting in Neviges,[1] and with this miracle the pilgrimage was born. In 1688 the Vicar General of Cologne officially sanctioned the pilgrimage.


Coordinates: 51°18′46″N 7°05′15″E / 51.3128°N 7.0875°E / 51.3128; 7.0875

References

  1. ↑ "Brutalist buildings: Pilgrimage Church, Neviges by Gottfried Böhm". de zeen. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
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