St. Martin's Church

The first, small St. Martin's Church was built of boulders and bluestone and covered with a shale roof. A Romanesque church was built around 1100. According to tradition, Saint Himelinus was buried there in 631 and that made the church a center of popular devotion. For centuries, pilgrims from all over the world came here. Above the tomb of the saint, at the entrance, an altar had been erected with a mural above it depicting Saint Hemelinus. At the altar, behind a closed door, was a large well. Pilgrims took earth from this pit - there was a ladder with seven rungs in it, so deep was it - and took it home. They mixed the earth into the food of humans and animals and hoped to cure diseases. The altar with the statue of the saint was destroyed by French and Dutch troops in 1635.

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