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Kirche St. Jakobus, Berlinerstr. 18
St. Jakobus on the pilgrim's way

On November 28th, in 1976, the church was inaugurated. As a patron saint St. Jakobus (the Elder), who is worshiped at the end of the old pilgrimage in Santiago de Compostela, was chosen. Due to the increase in population the first Catholic church St. Josef had become too small. In the year of the consecration, there were 3.960 Catholics registered in the village, in 1995 there were already 5.731.

Learn more about the architect and the artistic design of the interior of the church by the sculptor Helmut Lutz and the painter Theodor Zeller.

You are in front of the main entrance of the Catholic church St. Jakobus. It is the youngest church in Denzlingen. Apart from the highly valuable and symbolic interior design, which was created by Theodor Zeller, a painter from Denzlingen and the sculptor Helmut Lutz from Breisach, you find a relic from the oldest and long deteriorated church on the Mauracher Berg inside the church.

On the right hand side of the baptismal font there is a heavily weathered relief plate made of red sandstone. It is 225 centimeters high, 118 centimeters wide and 25 centimeters thick. The plate illustrates St. Severin in his episcopal regalia.

Angels holding a crown over his head are hovering above. A leg carved into the left part, the date 1771 and the initials D and H presumably indicate that a pilgrim expressed his gratitude after having been healed from a kind of leg pain.

That is how the sandstone slab connects the pilgrimage church on the hill with the St. Jakobus church located on the pilgrimage way to Santiago de Compostela.