Providenzkirche Heidelberg
Baroque Lutheran church with an octagonal sandstone clock tower, founded under a seventeenth-century elector.
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This guide to the Providenzkirche in Heidelberg goes back to the late sixteen-fifties, when Charles Louis, the Calvinist Elector Palatine, quietly took a Lutheran bride, Luise von Degenfeld, while his first wife, Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel, still refused to call their marriage over. It follows a soured royal match, a small Lutheran minority in a Calvinist capital, and the motto the Elector lent this building. Best heard on Hauptstrasse, facing the church's north gable.
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