Badenweiler

The resort since Roman times, the ruins of Roman buildings. The place of death of the German writer and politician Jacob Venedey (1871), the American writer Stephen Kerin (1900) and the Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1904), who were in treatment at the spa Badenweiler (died of tuberculosis ).

The place where the active Protestant church of St. Paul stands is a historical place, which was a religious place of worship already in the times of the Roman Empire. The Romans built here in 145 AD a large podium temple, from which almost nothing remained. The temple stood on a "pile structure." The builders of the temple drove pointed oak piles into the loamy soil to provide the soil for this heavy building ^[1] . The temple was Gallo-Roman with a classic Italian main facade, placed on a monumental catwalk ^[2] .

In the 12th century, a Christian church was built on the ruins of a Roman temple. The church was in poor condition when it was demolished in 1892 and rebuilt as a Neo-Roman building between 1893 and 1898. During the digging of Roman walls and fragments of walls of previous church buildings, they were discovered and included in the construction of a new church ^[1] . In the tower of the previous church were discovered six frescoes of the XIVth century, which are now in the choir of the modern church. They show the so-called Dance of the Dead, where the living and the dead meet. On three skeletons there is an inscription: “We were who you are, who we will be.” This is addressed to three living (a child, a middle-aged man and an old man), whose clothes correspond to the fashion of noble people of the XIV century ^[3] .

•   Vittel ( France )
•   Taganrog ( Russia ).

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  View from the southwest

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  View from the west

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  Entrance to the sources of Cassiopeia

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  Part of the spa park

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  Anton Chekhov Square ^[4]

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  Sculpture "The Seagull "

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  Monument to Chekhov

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  Literary Museum ^[5] Chekhov Salon ^[6]

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