St. Peter am Perlach or Perlach-Church is a
romanesque Catholic church in the center of
Augsburg (
Bavaria). The tower of the church, the
Perlachturm
The 70-metre-tall Perlachturm is a belltower in front of the church of St. Peter am Perlach in the central district of Augsburg, Germany. It originated as a watchtower in the 10th century. The existing Renaissance structure was built in the 1610s ...
, is together with the
Augsburg Town Hall
The Town Hall of Augsburg (German: ''Augsburger Rathaus'') is the administrative centre of Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany, and one of the most significant secular buildings of the Renaissance style north of the Alps. It was designed and built by Elias ...
the landmark of Augsburg.
Mary Untier of Knots
The image and
Marian devotion in St. Peter
Mary Untier of Knots
Mary, Untier of Knots or Mary, Undoer of Knots is the name of both a Marian devotion and a Baroque painting (German: ''Wallfahrtsbild'' or ''Gnadenbild'') which represents that devotion. The painting by Johann Georg Melchior Schmidtner, of arou ...
is also known in
Latin America miraculous image of Mary Knots. A copy of the painting is in
San José del Talar a church in
Buenos Aires (
Argentina).
See also
* The
Turamichele
Turamichele ("Tower-Michael") is the name of a moving mechanical figure on the Perlach Tower (''Perlachturm'') next to Perlach church in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany. It shows the Archangel Michael fighting with the devil. Every year on 29 September ...
of Perlachtower
*
List of Jesuit sites
External links
St. Peter am Perlach- (Official site)
References
11th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Germany
Romanesque architecture in Germany
Roman Catholic cathedrals in Bavaria
Augsburg
Buildings and structures in Augsburg
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