St. Maria von Loreto (Kobelkirche)

This 1720 engraving by Johann Jakob Kleinschmidt shows the church with its first nave and the outside pulpit on the Kobelberg near Augsburg. At its heart the church is a so-called Loreto chapel built in 1602, a replica of the 'Holy House' of Loreto in Italy. The chapel is probably the oldest Loreto pilgrimage site in southern Germany. It was later expanded into a church (“Kobelkirche”), which is still a popular pilgrimage destination today.

Der Kobelberg 1 Stund von Ausgpurg, engraving, 1720, artist: Johann Jakob Kleinschmidt; source: Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Der_Kobelberg_1_Stund_von_Ausgpurg.jpg, public domain.