Jesuitenkirche
Baroque former Jesuit church of white sandstone columns, with an electors' crypt and sacred art museum.
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This guide to the Jesuitenkirche in Heidelberg turns on a religious quarrel of the early seventeen hundreds, when a Catholic Elector, the Protestant townspeople and a wall inside the town's great church collided. You'll meet Karl Philipp, the Jesuits building here, and the princes and imperial court drawn into the row. Best heard standing in the nave, facing the choir.
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