Marktkirche St Cosmas und Damien

We actually saw this before dinner, and got in under the wire. Built as a Romanesque church in 1151, but was redone in a more Gothic style as the years went on. It was not THE church of imperial Goslar, that was at the end of the Hoherweg next to the palace. It did, however, survive, and that one didn't. Like most churches around here, it went Protestant when its town did (1521 in this case).

Of note: stained glass windows of the lives and martyrdom of Sts Cosmos and Damian, which are among the oldest cycle stained glass in Northern Germany (1250). There's also a baroque altar, and a Renaissance pulpit. Nice church, big, but I do miss those overdone churches of Catholic Bavaria, though their aesthetics were not always great.Leggi altro