St. Vitus' Church Moehringen, Germany

A note concerning St. Vitus' Church in Moehringen, Germany. Moehringen is located in the district of Biberach in Baden-Wuerttemberg.

St. Vitus' in Moehringen is a beautiful church so I wanted to share it with you. Our ancestors Joseph and Elisabetha (Egger) Widmann lived in Moehringen. However, because they lived there prior to the construction of St. Vitus', I did not include a section on it above. St. Vitus' was built from 1863-65. At the time construction began on St. Vitus', Moehringen already had an existing church called Liebfrauenkapelle (The Chapel of Our Dear Lady). It was located in a different part of Moehringen. It was in bad condition and was torn down in 1865.

Joseph and Elisabetha lived in Moehringen in the 1700s. They married around 1730 and passed away long before the construction of St. Vitus' and the razing of Liebfrauenkapelle. Their son Jakob, also a direct ancestor, was born in 1733. He moved to Obermarchtal by the time of his first marriage in 1762.

Therefore, Liebfrauenkapelle, and not St. Vitus', was one of the churches of the Joseph and Elisabetha Widmann family. I was told that it did not have its own priest, that on Saturdays there was one mass, and that people usually went to the church in nearby Offingen (not to be confused with Oepfingen).