Germany
Baden-Württemberg
Stuttgart District
Landkreis Esslingen
Neckartailfingen
Leaning Church Tower of Neckartailfingen
Germany
Baden-Württemberg
Stuttgart District
Landkreis Esslingen
Neckartailfingen
Leaning Church Tower of Neckartailfingen
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Location: Neckartailfingen, Landkreis Esslingen, Stuttgart District, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinskirche_(Neckartailfingen)
St. Martin's Church in Neckartailfingen near Nürtingen is 900 years old and, with its leaning tower, is the community's landmark.
From the patronage of St. Martin of Tours it can be concluded that a previous building had stood on the site of today's church since the 7th or 8th century. The church was first mentioned in a document in the codex hirsaugiensis, when around 1090 Counts Kuno and Liutold von Achalm donated half of the church and other property in the area to the Hirsau monastery. Today's St. Martin's Church was built at the beginning of the 12th century as a Romanesque, three-aisled columned basilica under the administrator of the donated property, the Hirsau abbot Bruno.
Through thorough dendrochronological examinations of the roof beams, it was determined in 1996 that the wood was felled in the winter of 1110/11 and in the spring of 1111 and installed fresh.[1] This meant that the completion of at least the shell of the church could be clearly determined in 1111.
July 10, 2016
And that is just one of the many highlights of Neckartailfingen. 🙂
The tower is actually leaning.
November 4, 2018
Why go to Pisa if there is a leaning tower in your own country ...
August 29, 2019
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