a large building with a clock on the front of it

An example of brick Gothic architecture, the Frauenkirche was built on the initiative of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor between 1352 and 1362. Following an outbreak of the Black Death in 1349, a Christian pogrom against the Jewish inhabitants of Nuremberg took place, and they were expelled from the city. Emperor Charles IV ordered the synagogue of Nuremberg to be destroyed to make way for the development of the grand market (Hauptmarkt), at which also a church was to be built on the rubble. This became the Frauenkirche.