The church of St. Dionys dates back to the 13th and 14th centuries. An excavation museum was built under the church on the Esslingen market square in the 1960s. It shows the foundations of the walls of the former churches, attested on this site since 777. The church's greatest treasure is the magnificent stained glass windows in the choir dating from around 1300.
The cathedral church of St. Eberhard has been a cathedral only since 1978. Although the parish dates back to the 10th century, the present building was completed in 1955, the previous one having been destroyed during the Second World War.
The Stiftskirche is a church of the Evangelical Lutheran Church and a well-known building in the city because of its irregular towers. Built from the 10th century, it is the only surviving architectural testimony of the Hohenstaufen period in Stuttgart.
The Ludwigsburg Peace Church was built by the Munich architect Friedrich von Thiersch between 1900 and 1903. The neo-baroque building is decorated with a fresco on the ceiling. The building was first used as a garrison church in 1903, but was renamed Peace Church after the Second World War. Today it serves as a multipurpose space for the spiritual, community and cultural life of the city of Ludwigsburg.
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