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Someday I'll find the real names to all these places, but for now it will suffice to say that this is the castle which overlooks Heidelberg.
The west front is of the screen-type, clearly deriving from that at Wells. It is composed of a stair turret at each extremity, with two niched buttresses nearer the centre line supporting the large central triple window. The stair turrets are topped with spirelets, and the central section is topped by a gable which contains four lancet windows topped by two round quatrefoil windows surmounted by a mandorla containing Christ in Majesty. At ground level there is a principal door flanked by two smaller doors. Thewhole is highly decorated with quatrefoil motifs, columns, trefoil motifs and bands of diapering. The west front was almost certainly constructed at the same time as the cathedral. This is apparent from the way in which the windows coincide with the interior spaces. The entire facade is about 33 m high and wide.
According to the landowner on which this amazing medieval structure can be found there are not 666 holes in its walls. Others say differently, whatever the total of this dovecot, first constructed by the Templars and rebuilt by the Knights Hospitallers, it's a rare survival