Jesuitenkirche Heidelberg

In the location's words:

The Jesuit Church is located in the immediate vicinity of the university in the heart of Heidelberg's Old Town. The church was built in the Baroque style between 1712 and 1759, but the neo-Baroque tower was only added 150 years later. After the Jesuit order was abolished in 1773, the church was occasionally used for secular purposes, including as a military hospital for many years. In 1809, the Catholic community received the church as a parish church; until then, the Catholic and Protestant communities had shared the Protestant Heiliggeistkirche. The Jesuit Church did not receive its striking, bright white interior until the church was renovated in the mid-1950s. The new large Kuhn organ was inaugurated in 2009, and in 2014 it was joined by a baroque-style choir organ, also built by the Swiss organ builders Kuhn.