Sobre este lugar
The Stiftskirche, or Collegiate Church of the Holy Cross, is the spiritual heart of Stuttgart and the burial place of the Counts of Wuerttemberg who once ruled from the castle next door. A three-naved Romanesque church stood here by 1240, later reshaped with a soaring Gothic chancel and a late Gothic nave, then stripped bare when Wuerttemberg embraced the Protestant Reformation in 1534. Its two towers refuse to match: a slender octagonal west tower and a squat, square south tower with a pointed cap, an odd couple that has become one of Stuttgart's best loved silhouettes. Just outside its doors lies Schillerplatz, a cobbled square lined with Renaissance palaces and watched over by a bronze statue of the poet Friedrich Schiller.
Datos clave
- 61 meters — Height of the octagonal west tower, completed in 1531 and topped with a flat roof
- 1240 year — A three-naved Romanesque church with two towers was first raised on this spot
- 1839 year — Thorvaldsen's Schiller statue was unveiled here, the first Schiller monument in Germany
📍 Stiftstraße 12, 70173, Stuttgart