Nuremberg switched to Lutheranism in 1525, the first city in Germany to do so, but nobody told the inside of St. Lawrence Church, or *Lorenzkirche*. The leading families who had paid for its art didn’t want to destroy their own gifts, so the art stayed. The result is a Protestant church that still looks Catholic.

The church marks the heart of the old town’s southern half and dates to the 1300s. Its twin, St. Sebald, anchors the northern half, and whenever one was enlarged, the other followed. That’s why they look so alike.

VoiceMap’s tours explain how a Protestant church kept its Catholic look. They also stop beside it at the Nuremberg crossway, a 1991 memorial of 14 granite slabs.