Frauenkirche
Fourteenth-century Gothic church with a ceremonial balcony and a noon clock of circling electors.
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This guide to the Frauenkirche on Nuremberg's main market square follows the small balcony above its entrance and the rituals staged from it. You'll meet the Christkind, the crowned local girl chosen to speak from it each Advent, and Emperor Charles the Fourth, who raised the church in the thirteen fifties on ground with a dark past. Best heard from the square facing the west front, with the clock above the balcony in view.
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