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3 unusual facts about Freiburg Charterhouse


Freiburg Charterhouse

It featured magnificent stained glass windows to designs by the Swabian painter Hans Baldung Grien.

It was dedicated to Saint John the Baptist, in honour of the Grande Chartreuse near Grenoble, and was known as Sankt Johannisberg or St. Johannes des Täufers Berg ("St John's Mount" or the "Mount of St. John the Baptist").

From fall 2014 onwards, the facilities will accommodate a college of the UWC which will be called Robert Bosch College.



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