Hiking Highlight
Recommended by 40 out of 47 hikers
Former Benedictine monastery church of St. Andreas, according to tradition around 750 the first bishopric of Würzburg, from 1464 a knights' monastery church, three-aisled basilica with a 5/8 chancel elevated above a street passage and a wide transept, gabled and pent roofs, the spandrels between the nave and the transept original ones Choir flank towers with octagonal upper storeys and stone spires, nave with hooded gable turret above console, on the north side open porch with round arches and hipped roof, plaster masonry with sandstone structures from various epochs, core building with nave and towers Romanesque, 11th-13th c. Century, vestibule around 1170, chancel and transept late Gothic, 15th-17th c. Century, road passage marked 1491, historicising renovation 1857/58 and 1894, restoration after partial destruction in 1948; with equipment; Mount of Olives, sandstone, baroque, Joh. Wolfgang von der Auwera, 18th century
December 1, 2022
The rectory seems a bit lost next to the church.
But that's probably the fate of such buildings.
a day ago
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