Michaelskloster Heiligenberg
Romanesque basilica ruin on a wooded summit, with a crypt, climbable towers and a Roman temple beneath.
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This guide to the Michaelskloster ruin on the Heiligenberg above Heidelberg is a story about water on a hilltop that has none of its own. It reaches from the Celts who walled in a spring, to the Lorsch monks who rebuilt this church in the eleventh century, to the Roman god whose temple lies under the nave. Best heard standing in the nave, near the stone slabs set into the floor.
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