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 Look how beautiful this is. Towns covered in snow look prettier. 

Gelnhausen is a town in Hesse, Germany, founded by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in 1170.

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In the center of and towering over Gelnhausen’s old town is the Marienkirche, or St. Mary’s Church. Built between 1170 and 1250, it shows both Romanesque (like the six-storey west tower) and Gothic architecture (the octagonal crossing tower and the east towers) elements. 

It was once, as the name might suggest, a Catholic church, but since the Reformation it’s been Protestant.