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Germany - Limburg an der Lahn

nobody@ipernity.com (Jaap van 't Veen) — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 07:02:42 +0000

Germany - Heppenheim

nobody@ipernity.com (Jaap van 't Veen) — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 07:29:45 +0000

Marktplatz (Market square) in Heppenheim during blue hour with the town hall (l) and half-timbered houses.

The town hall (Rathaus) was built in 1561. After the city fire of 1693 the baroque half-timbered Rathaus was rebuilt in 1705/06.

Germany - Limburg an der Lahn

nobody@ipernity.com (Jaap van 't Veen) — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 08:31:26 +0000

Jaap van 't Veen has posted:

Limburg - developed around a castle from the late 7th century - was first mentioned in documents in the year of 910 as "Lintpurc", when the St. George monastery was founded by Konrad Kurzbold.
The town became stone ramparts in the 12th and following centuries. The construction of a new church belonging to St. George monastery started in 1200. Around that time a new castle was built south of the new church.

The plague ravaged Limburg in 1344. The town then underwent a steady decline until the early 19th century, when the rise of the Duchy of Nassau (1806-1866) gave a new lease of life to Limburg. In 1827, Limburg became the seat of a diocese and in 1886 it was made district capital.

Limburg's old town offers a maze of cobble stoned streets, lined with crooked half-timbered houses some dating back to the 13th century, but most of them are ‘just’ from the 17th or 18th century.

The St. George Cathedral is Limburg’s landmark, situated on a little hill, is one of the best examples of late Romanesque architecture in Germany. The church was built between 1200 and 1235, it was elevated to the rank of cathedral in 1827.

I took this picture from a parking garage in the city centre with the former town hall in the foreground and the St. Georg Cathedral above the old town in the background.