# Exterior view [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SCHICKHARDT, Heinrich II]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Photo ## Commentary Schickhardt designed an ideal town on a grid plan, with the streets intersecting like the lines on a nine men's morris board-game. In the centre he designed the Stadtkirche, an Evangelical church with an L-shape ground plan. It was an experiment to create a church suitable for Protestant services. Freudenstadt was severely damaged by fire during World War II. The central city, including the Renaissance arcades in the marketplace and the Evangelical church, was rebuilt in its original form. The photo shows a view towards the church. View d <a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/support/plans/s/schickha/freudenstadt.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=850,height=850'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return false">drawing of the original state</a> of the church and its plan for two levels. ## Related artworks - [Aerial view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()