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St. Ägidius Church, Kleincomburg

St. Ägidius Church, Kleincomburg

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St. Ägidius Church, Kleincomburg

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Location: Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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2. Einkorn Observation Tower – Einkorn Ruins and Viewpoint loop from Schwäbisch Hall

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3. View from the Einkorn – Einkorn Ruins and Viewpoint loop from Schwäbisch Hall

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Anja ex Pago Creichgouue

July 12, 2020

St. Aegidius is a Romanesque building (construction around 1120) directly opposite the Großcomburg. Some sources speak of a "magistra dominae" monastery on Kleinkomburg. There are no reliable indications of this.
St. Aegidius is a Romanesque basilica with a cruciform plan. In the dome of the apse and in the choir vault there are murals that were restored in 1878/79 on the basis of old traces. St. Aegidius is the only largely preserved Romanesque church in the region. The ceiling paintings with Christ as a treadmill in a wine press, from the early 12th century, are considered the oldest pictorial representation of this subject. A baroque high altar leaf survived the Romanization of the church in 1877. On the north side of the church, a Capuchin monastery was built in 1711-1713. From 1849 to 1872 the monastery served as the mother house of the Franciscan order, which is today in the Kl

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Sandsteinklippe

July 12, 2020

From 1877, the facility was used as a state prison and until 2015 served as a branch of the Schwäbisch Hall prison.

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St. Ägidius Church, Kleincomburg

1. Hangman's Bridge, Schwäbisch Hall loop from Comburg

2. Einkorn Observation Tower – Einkorn Ruins and Viewpoint loop from Schwäbisch Hall

3. View from the Einkorn – Einkorn Ruins and Viewpoint loop from Schwäbisch Hall

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