Saint Severus

Another town, another church. Maybe more in the future, who knows?

This one, Saint Severus, is dedicated to Severus of Ravenna, not as our oldest daughter might like to think, Professor Snape of Hogwarts. Excavations have found that the earliest Christian structure dates from the 500s. It was built over an existing Roman structure. The form it has now, comes from the building efforts in the 1100s and 1200s. Of course, it burned down, was rebuilt and et cetera more than once.

It's still a Catholic Church today. This area along the Rhine, even down into Baden-Wurttemberg is far more Catholic than I had expected. This just shows my complete lack of knowledge re: the outcome of the Thirty Years War. I thought the majority of Germany had gone Protestant, but that's not the case, even taking out Bavaria. My point of view is less from learning (or not learning in this case) the actual history, but because I was raised in a German Lutheran church, and my mother's family was from the very Lutheran areas of Saxony and Thuringia. The fact that there could even be German Catholics was not on my radar, even though I know better, intellectually speaking.

Anyway: two sehenswert-- noteworthy for sightseeing-- objects in the church: the Thirteenth Century triumphal cross (which I didn't take a close up picture of), and a Thirteenth Century Madonna carved of alder wood. What caught my attention, the stained glass. Predictable. Not medieval. Not even medieval style. I liked it though.Leer más