Heidelberger Marktplatz
Medieval market square with a Hercules fountain, framed by the town hall and a Gothic church.
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This guide to the Marktplatz in Heidelberg turns from the square to the church that fills its western end, and to a stained-glass commission that began in nineteen seventy-seven. You'll meet the artist Johannes Schreiter, a medieval building that once held a great library, and a window where nuclear physics and the Bible share the same glass. Listen from the square, then step inside the Church of the Holy Spirit.
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