On Monday I shared some images of the beautiful village of Oberwesel. I told you about the tourism and wine making industry and showed you their many fortification towers and walls that were part of it’s medieval history.
Today I want to show you some pictures of several of the churches of Oberwesel, like this one of Martinskirche. It is also known as the Church of St. Martin or the White Church.
It overlooks the entire town from it’s high hilltop location. It dates to 1350 and currently they are working on the tower. You can see the scaffolding in place. The tower resembles a fortification tower with windows that look like they were meant to shoot arrows from in times of battle.
It is a form of ecclesiastical gothic architecture. Inside is a baroque high altar and several rococo side altars. And if you look in the lower left of this picture you will see another church. This is known as Werner’s Chapel.
Or Mother Rosa Chapel as it is called today. It is actually part of an older hospital church and it is built directly on the town wall. The original hospital chapel dates back to 1305. I am not sure how old this part of the church was, but it is what is left from a war in the late 1600’s that destroyed much of the town.
Here you can see more of Mother Rosa Chapel and the wall it was built on. It is only the choir of the original church and was part of a hospital originally.
The last church I want to share with you is Liebfrauenkirche or the Church of Our Lady. And it is also known as the Red Church because of the red stone that was used to construct it.
It sits below Schoenburg Castle.
It appears to be the tallest structure in the lower part of the village.
It is another example of gothic architecture and dates to 1308.
It is said to have a golden altar, one of the most impressive in this region of the Rhine.
It also has a baroque organ built by Eberhardt.
I can only imagine how beautiful it must be inside.
And it is situated by the train station, that cute little yellow building to the left of the church.
And there are a few other churches as well, but these three were the ones that stood out the most as we cruised by.
Oh, and before I forget, in the lower left corner by all the campers is the km sign for Oberwesel. It’s 549. Next up will be a few shots of Schoenburg Castle.
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