Augustinerkirche
In Germany, Augustinerkirche presents a plain facade without a tower, standing quietly amid the surrounding bustle. Its story begins with a monastery founded in the early thirteenth century. Cistercian nuns first held the foundation, before Augustinian monks expanded and rebuilt the church.
Martin Luther preached here several times, and the church became Protestant in 1524. Herzog Ernst I later commissioned Andreas Rudolph to reshape the interior between 1676 and 1680. Early Baroque galleries and a princely box then joined the restrained design of a mendicant order. The Schmid-Böhm organ fills the interior beneath an early Baroque case.
The northern monastery wing preserves a Gothic cloister dating from 1366. Gravestones and epitaphs record former citizens and scholars, while Friedrich Myconius rests beside the altar. His grave marker carries inscriptions in Greek and Latin, leaving the reformer’s memory in two ancient languages.
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