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Freiburg Minster
Freiburg Minster
Every visitor who comes to Freiburg always heads straight to the cathedral as soon as he catches a glimpse of the open-worked pyramids of the slender tower over the rooftops of the old town. Then they will stand, astonished, in front of the most beautiful tower in Christian architecture, just as the famous historian and author from Baden, Carl Jakob Burckhardt had referred to the tower. While many churches from the middle ages were completed only in following centuries, the tower, which is 116 meters high, was already completed by 1330.
The tower has 16 bells, the oldest being the Hosanna
bell from 1258, which weighs 3,290 kg. This bell can be heard on Thursday evening after the Angelus, on Friday at 11:00 am (a time consequently known as Spätzleglocke
), on Saturday evenings, and each year on 27 November in remembrance of the air raid in 1944.
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Freiburg im Breisgau is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, in the Breisgau region on the western edge of the Black Forest. It straddles the Dreisam river, on the foothills of the Schlossberg. The city is bordered by the Black Forest mountains Rosskopf…
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