Karlsplatz
Old-town square on a former monastery site, framed by a Baroque palace and a modern bronze fountain.
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This guide to Karlsplatz in Heidelberg turns to the palace on the square's north side and the two brothers from Cologne, Sulpiz and Melchior Boisserée, who lived there from eighteen ten. It follows the old German and Dutch altarpieces they bought up as church property was seized and sold, and one celebrated painting from a Cologne church whose story did not stay simple. Goethe turns up as a visitor along the way. Best heard by the fountain, facing the palace.
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