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From the life of Mary

In the middle ages the Frauenkirche (Church of our Lady) stood outside the city walls. Its founding year is said to be 1349. Funded with the expiation fee for an attack by Friedrich von Biberstein and donations from citizens who contracted the plague, it was built as a chapel and named “Church of our Lady Outside the City” in 1368 because Mary, the mother of Jesus, was the patron saint of this church. The first building was destroyed by the Hussites’ attacks, but it was rebuilt in the late Gothic style.
The eleven keystones in the reticulated vault of the central aisle show reliefs with scenes of the life of Mary and four other virgin saints. Today, on Christmas eve, Mary holds the infant Jesus in her arms.