
Tracking Treasures
What is the difference between the cherubs and the angels? Where is the heart of the bell-tower? What animals are hidden in the coat of arms of the Hochberg family? The Family game “Quest of Peace” and the map...
What is the difference between the cherubs and the angels? Where is the heart of the bell-tower? What animals are hidden in the coat of arms of the Hochberg family? The Family game “Quest of Peace” and the map...
“It was a complete coincidence”, says Mr Stephan Aderhold ph.d, a musicologist from Berlin who investigates the history of the Church of Peace. It was in the German city of Nürnberg, in an art gallery named “Galerie Jacobsa” that specializes in paintings from...
An iron cannonball found during an archaeological supervision of earthworks at the parish is not the only memorial that was present on Peace Square after the siege of Swidnica. Prussian troops besieged the town during the Seven Years’ War in 1758, and it is precisely this date that appears on the painting of the balustrade of the empora, which features a black flushed ball. This is one of the important events in the history of the church that...