Sad sight: Nuremberg’s Meistersinger church has burnt down

Sad sight: Nuremberg’s Meistersinger church has burnt down

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norman lebrecht

June 11, 2014

The St Martha church in the old town of Nuremberg where Meisteringer contests were held from 1620 to 1778 has been consumed again by fire.

It was previously bombed out in 1945 and then painstakingly reconstructed.

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