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Maidbronn, Descent from the Cross, Riemenschneider's last altar.
The Baroque Summer of 1951
Riemenschneider,
Romanesque Churches, Antonia's Kabbalistic Shrine, and my Discovery
of the Southern German Baroque
Here you find a Google-Earth
route of this trip
Maidbronn
northeast of Würzburg
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Maidbronn, Descent from the Cross, Riemenschneider's last altar. |
Amorbach
South of Miltenberg am Neckar
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Amorbach, nave of the church |
Along the Nagold Valley
Bad Teinach
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Antonia's Kabbalistic shrine in the Protestant church |
Maulbronn and Hirsau
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Maulbronn, the cloisters, fountain house, and the church |
Hirsau, ruins of the cloisters and tower |
Lake Constance
The three Churches on the Island of Reichenau
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Oberzell, early Romanesque frescos |
Mittelzell, Romanesque ceiling and a Gothic choir |
Niederzell, Baroque interior and Romanesque frescos in the apse |
Überlingen
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Überlingen, theBaroque choir fence and the Gothic altar |
The Birnau above Lake Constance
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The Birnau, the church in the vineyards overlooking the Lake and its late Roccoco interior |
Weingarten
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The mighty Benedictine abbey... |
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and its cold interior |
The Wies
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The altar and the arcades of the apse |
One of the four columns in the nave and ceiling |
Mittenwald
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The snake-charmer in Mittenwald |
