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Located at the corner of Hauptstraße and Brotäckerstraße

Built in 1811 to celebrate the birth of Napoleon I's son - obviously occupied by the French for too long 😅

In the old village center of Steinweiler lies the church with its church garden behind it.

Was looking for the corn maze

The Catholic church in Steinweiler is not only a parish church, but also a place of pilgrimage. The Fourteen Holy Helpers are particularly venerated here, which is rather rare in the Palatinate. Immigrants from Franconia who settled in Steinweiler after the Thirty Years' War in the 17th century brought "their" Fourteen Helper traditions with them. So it is that to this day the Feast of the Helpers is celebrated on the third Sunday after Pentecost. Anyone who enters the church will see one of the emergency helpers in each of the windows. And there is a matching baroque devotional picture on the southern side wall. https://www.pfarrei-kandel.de/unsere-pfarrei/unsere-gemeinden/steinweiler/14-nothelfer-wallfahrtsort/

The Kreuzgasse in Steinweiler leads past the Protestant church and offers many spruced up half-timbered houses. On November 10, 968, Emperor Otto the Great issued a document in which he donated the Steinweiler farm in Speiergau to his wife Adelheid. The settlement was probably built around the year 600. Until 1955, wastewater was still disposed of through the village ditches. Today Steinweiler is a typical residential community. https://www.steinweiler.eu/steinweiler/geschichte/

In the Kreuzgasse there are some beautiful half-timbered houses. At the church you can exit the road on either side to see gardens. The Protestant Church is well described here: https://www.steinweiler.eu/steinweiler/historischer-dorfweg/protestantische-kirche/ From this website you can also get to the description of other sights in Steiweiler. On the occasion of the 1050th anniversary in 2018, many buildings were equipped with plaques on which one can read the history of the respective building.

The first mention of a church in Steinweiler comes from a document of Emperor Otto II from 982. This makes it one of the oldest churches in the southern Palatinate. In the 15th century it was rebuilt. The first two floors of the church tower bear witness to this. After Steinweiler burned down in 1622 during the Thirty Years' War, the church was rebuilt a year later. The nave was rebuilt in 1765/66. https://www.pfarrei-kandel.de/unsere-pfarrei/unsere-gemeinden/steinweiler/kirche-st-martin/