# Exterior view [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SCHICKHARDT, Heinrich II]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Photo ## Commentary Freudenstadt in southwestern Germany lies in the Black Forest, about 65 km southwest of Stuttgart. In 1599 Schickhardt began to draw up a plan for the new town of Freudenstadt \("Town of Joy"\), founded as a refuge for Protestants from Salzburg, and intended by the Duke of Württemberg as a military and commercial base. Schickhardt designed an ideal town on a grid plan, with the streets intersecting like the lines on a nine men's morris board-game. Freudenstadt was severely damaged by fire during World War II. The central city, including the Renaissance arcades in the marketplace and the Evangelical church \(1601-08\), was rebuilt in its original form. The photo shows the town church on the main square. ## Related artworks - [Aerial view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()