St. Jacob's Church

Freinsheim, Germany

St. Jacob's Church is a Protestant parish church in Herxheim am Berg. The building contains the lower section of a quire tower with a groin-vaulted chancel onto which is built a semicircular apse. The church was built about 1014. The nave dates to 1729. In the chancel, wall paintings have been brought to light showing the Four Evangelists, both in human shape with wings and with the heads of their symbols. In the apse's vaulting there was a representation of the Last Judgement, and on the south wall, one can see the Apostle Paul. The paintings were done in the latter half of the 14th century.

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Founded: 1014
Category: Religious sites in Germany
Historical period: Ottonian Dynasty (Germany)

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D.G. K. (5 years ago)
Anyone who is too stupid to look for, find, read or even understand information boards about the history and processing of the church and its inventory and instead parrot some agitators has not understood history. The memory of the atrocities underlying this, but also that of all other dictators, fanatics and followers, must be kept alive not only in centrally located museums, but everywhere where these atrocities took place. That's why it's important to show right HERE that fanaticism contributed to the success of the Nazis right HERE and not just in distant big cities. But it is sooo convenient to build bad banks in the form of museums for our inglorious past. True to the motto: "May our past be dealt with - but please not on my doorstep."
Aaron Fitzgerald (7 years ago)
Great little church, shows the swastika as it was a part of German history, we shall not pander to political correctness! Great to see.
Lukas Brück (7 years ago)
The place for all those who have forgotten history and pay homage to the "good old days" with a Hitler bell. In my opinion, anyone who takes part in services in such a church is not a Christian but a devil worshiper
Don Boris (8 years ago)
Right-wing extremists glorify the Nazi era in a stupid and inappropriate way, leftists, ignorant parrots or simply the ill-informed demonize them beyond the well-known atrocities and war crimes. The fact that Mayor Becker demanded his resignation because he said that not everything was bad back then is cheeky. Because in the end he is right. There are plenty of examples of this and it is well known that every coin has two sides, even if one of the two may predominate. But no, people prefer to think in black and white instead of letting bad things be bad and good things good. And EXACTLY SUCH black and white thinking made the Holocaust possible! From a historical point of view, I think the bell is absolutely worth preserving, whether it is INVISIBLE to the public in the bell tower or visible in a museum. Nobody can deny how historic this epoch was, from this point of view I can absolutely understand the mayor and pastor. You have to look at the whole thing through the eyes of a historian, regardless of your own political views. My opinion. I also think the church itself is very beautiful, which is why five stars.
Andre S. (8 years ago)
Doesn't it violate the law swastika and co. just let it hang? In any case, this has nothing to do with historical processing if you simply do nothing. If you think it has to be preserved so that you don't forget, OK, but then it belongs in a museum or you have to make a connection with the history of the place and not just leave a swastika bell hanging and pretend it's nothing.
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