#82487: Oldenburg

This picture shows four towering church spires painted on a cloud dappled blue sky with yellow flowers in the foreground. These steeples punctuate the rural skyline and inspire Oldenburg’s nickname, Village of Spires. The town’s strasses (streets) are lined with historic brick homes and commercial buildings. The frontmost significant structure is the Old Stone Church constructed of local limestone and topped with a reconstructed onion-domed spire called a Zweibelturm. Behind and transversally situated is the red brick Holy Family Catholic Church, the Gothic Revival parish church built in 1862 with the tallest spire, at a soaring 187’. Across from Holy Family and just a little east are the twin spires of the Baroque-style Convent Chapel and the Victorian-Romanesque-style Immaculate Conception Convent. (photo courtesy of Candy Yurcak)