Stiftskirche
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[edit] Stiftskirche
Located in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The Stiftskirche is a late gothic structure built by Peter von Koblenz in 1470. It is significant in that it was one of the first churches to join the reformation movement of Martin Luther. It is also signifcant in that it often has been felt to represent the struggle between intellectuals, scientists and theologians. Many famous intellectuals have been kicked out of the Stiftskirche for promoting ideas considered to be heretetical.
It has been said that anyone who was either honored or kicked out of the Stiftskirche has been destined for greatness in Germanic culture. Because of its proximity, the people who have been kicked out of the Stifstkirche have always been kicked out onto the Lange Gasse, a narrow street that leads to the church.
A partial list of famous intellectuals who have either been embraced or kicked out of the Stiftkirche is listed below:
Hermann Hesse, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Friedrich Hölderlin, Alois Alzheimer, Johannes Kepler, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Joseph Alois Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI), Ernst Bloch, and Friedrich Nietzsche.
[edit] Trivia.
Goethe was particularly enamoured by the stain glass windows in the Stiftskirche and wrote about them in some of his poetry.
The stain glass windows were designed by Peter Hemmel of Andlau who also designed windows in Ulm, Augsburg, Nürnberg, München und Straßburg.
