Unsere liebe Frau

Unsere liebe Frau is a Catholic parish church in Lippertsreute, a district of Überlingen. Its light-plastered Neo-Gothic hall dates from 1881 and 1882. Four slender pointed-arch windows line each long wall, framed by sandstone buttresses. A massive western tower rises from a square base beneath a two-tiered pyramid roof.

Inside, a flat wooden ceiling meets a rib-vaulted choir with coloured stained glass. The Freiburg workshop Helmle and Merzweiler created scenes of Mary, Christ, Joachim, Anna, and Joseph. Wooden figures of Barbara, Apollonia, and Catherine date from around 1500, beside Saint Wendelin. A rural Madonna and Child from around 1460 stands among baroque Stations of the Cross and Feuchtmayer angels.

A tithe register from 1275 records the parish, while the tower dates from 1460. Renovations shaped the church between 1778 and 1792, before the present building rose in 1881. The active parish includes rosary prayers, choir singing, children’s church, youth activities, festivals, and pilgrimages. Maria im Stein adds a pilgrimage chapel, rebuilt in 1948 after its venerated image moved here.