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Church of St. Leodegar (Hofkirche)

St. Leodegar im Hof · Hofkirche

The Church of St. Leodegar, known as the Hofkirche, is a Catholic collegiate church in Lucerne and the church of the parish of St. Leodegar im Hof.

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The Church of St. Leodegar, also known as the Hofkirche, is described by Lucerne Tourism as the parish church of Lucerne, and the Catholic Church in the City of Lucerne lists St. Leodegar im Hof among its parishes. Lucerne Tourism's page says a small monastery was founded on the site around 735/736, that it became a collegiate church in 1455/56, whose canons have since recited the Divine Office every morning and evening, and that the church was rebuilt after a fire in 1633. The same page says the church treasury can only be visited on a guided tour, and that the organ was built in 1640 and extended in 1862 and again between 1972 and 1977. This record is the church, not its archive (Q27485026) or its organ.

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Lucerne

Lucerne (Luzern) is the capital of the canton of Lucerne and, as the city's own Welcome Desk page puts it, the largest municipality in that canton. XTOUR maps the Chapel Bridge, the Lion Monument, the Musegg Wall, the Jesuit Church, the Hofkirche, the Bourbaki Panorama and the Swiss Museum of Transport in the city, and lists Pilatus, the Rigi, the Titlis and Lake Lucerne, which lie outside it, only as places based from Lucerne.

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