Limburg an der Lahn

by Eva Lechner

Title

Limburg an der Lahn

Artist

Eva Lechner

Medium

Digital Art - Digital Art-photography/digital Art/photography Based Digital Painting

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Only a few towns, like Limburg, have been able to keep a full set of nearly unscathed medieval buildings. The formerly walled town core between St. George’s Cathedral, Grabenstraße (a street marking the old town moat) and the 600-year-old Lahn Bridge thus stands today as a whole under monumental protection.

The Altstadt ("Old Town") boasts a fine cathedral and is full of narrow streets with timber-frame houses, dating mainly from the 17th and 18th centuries. That's why it is located on the German Timber-Frame Road.

Limburger Dom, one of the most complete creations of Late Romanesque architecture. It was printed on the reverse of the 1,000 Deutsche Mark note from the second series,[2] which was in circulation from 1960 to 1989. The cathedral was recently renovated and painted to reflect its original appearance.
Limburger Schloss, built in early 13th century by Gerlach von Ysenburg
Burgmannenhaus, built about 1544; serves as a museum today
St. Anna-Kirche (church), stained glass from third fourth of 14th century with eighteen scenes from the New Testament
Old Lahn Bridge, from 1315, place where the Via Publica (road) crossed the Lahn
In the Old Town stand many timber-frame houses from the 13th to 19th centuries. One peculiarity seen among the timber-framed houses of Limburg is the "hall house" from the High Middle Ages, which has a great hall on the ground floor. When restoration work began in the Old Town in 1972, the houses were carefully restored. Among the best known timber-frame houses are:
Haus Kleine Rütsche 4, narrowest spot on the historic trade road between Frankfurt and Cologne, whose breadth is written at the Haymarket (Heumarkt) in Cologne
Haus der sieben Laster (“House of the Seven Vices”) at Brückengasse 9, built in 1567,[3] timber-frame house with carvings showing Christianity's seven deadly sins, namely pride, greed, envy, lust, gluttony, wrath and sloth
Werner-Senger-Haus, a beautiful stone hall house with timber-framed façade dating from the 13th century
Houses at the fishmarket. The square's name in the 13th century was still Fismart ("Yarn Market" or "Wool Market") in the Limburg dialect, and it was the Limburg wool weavers' trading centre[4]
Römer 2-4-6, Germany’s oldest freestanding timbered house; in the garden a mikvah was found
Rathaus ("Town Hall"), built in 1899
"Huttig" (town wall tower remnant)
Former noble estate of the Counts of Walderdorff at Fahrgasse 5

Digitally created painting based on my photograph taken last weekend

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