Bonn · Schwarzrheindorf · Germany

St. Maria & St. Clemens

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9/10

best: morning, weekday

spiritual, historic, quiet

A local would say...

Feudalism in stone: one church for the lords above, one for the people below — and both have survived 900 years.

A magnificent 12th-century 'double church' in a suburb of Bonn, where the nobility sat on the upper level and the parishioners on the lower. The beautiful Romanesque architecture is complemented by an exceptional restored Old Testament fresco cycle in the lower church. One of the finest Romanesque buildings in the Rhineland.