Old St Nicholas Church

This guide to Old St Nicholas Church in Frankfurt opens in the spring of 1945, with a woman picking her way over blackened brick on the Römerberg, searching the ruins for anything still standing after the bombing raids that flattened the old town. It traces how this squat medieval chapel came through with only minor damage while nearly everything around it was destroyed, and reaches back further to its start as a chapel tied to the emperor's household, later favored by the city's own councilmen. Listen for the tower's carillon, which still rings out over the rebuilt square several times a day.