Evangelische Kirche der Pfalz

One name - one program: United Protestant-Evangelical Christian Church of the Palatinate. Perhaps one should still add democratically, because in the 19th century, many Palatine Christians protested against princely rule and stood up for civil liberties. This is proven by the Lutheran and Reformed church union of 1818, which, unlike elsewhere, was not ordained "from above". Even in the failed revolution of 1848, the Palatinate Protestants achieved an important change. Although they remained subjects of the Bavarian king. But they won the legal and confessional independence of Munich. So they got a new, own consistory, which is the predecessor of today's Landeskirchenrat. And so did the impressive ensemble of buildings on the cathedral square, which was designed in the style of the Renaissance in the late 19th century and thus (largely) got its present form. Whoever comes to Speyer as a historically interested guest is recommended: parking on the fairground. Then a walk to the "LKR" (and the opposite bishop seat). Continue to the cathedral. And through the Maximiliansstraße towards the Memorial Church of the Reformation. It is worth it ..