Frauenkirche & anti-semitism in the form of stair steps
The Church of Our Lady in Nuremberg was completed in 1362, so a couple hundred years (give or take) before the Reformation. Fun fact: the altar in the church is originally from St. Vitus' Cathedral, which I visited in the Prague castle complex and have pictured in another post. Anti-semitism is not new, and even Martin Luther was an anti-semitist who suggested for Jewish progroms to be carried out (which were essentially exterminations). In Frauenkirche, some of the stair steps were actually Jewish tombstones from a nearby cemetery. This was intended as an insult to "kick" and "step on" the Jews. After the events of WWII and the Holocaust, these steps have been removed for obvious reasons. Needless to say, living in the Middle Ages (and even today) was extremely hard for a person of the Jewish faith.
