Heiliggeistkirche
Gothic sandstone hall church with high double galleries that once held a famed Renaissance library.
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This guide to the Heiliggeistkirche in Heidelberg starts with a measurement that seems backwards, and follows it up into the high galleries that line the church's sides. It reaches back to the electors of the Palatinate who rebuilt the church from thirteen ninety-eight, to the university scholars who worked up there, and to the Thirty Years War. Best heard inside, standing in the nave with the galleries above you on both sides.
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