Figure 16: Stars in the Architectural Traditions of the Palatinate in Rhineland-Pfalz and Rhine-Hesse, Germany. Courtesy of Patrick J. Donmoyer.  Clockwise from top left: A door panel carved with six-pointed rosettes, Keiserslautern; rosettes and a cross on the ventilators of the fifteenth-century St. Martin's Catholic Church, Ober-Olm; 1891 house blessing inscription for Jos[eph] and Katherina (Theobald) Bootz, Oberalben; a rosette on the eave of a half-timbered home in Romersheim; an arched farmyard gate, featuring a sunrise, Oberalben; a whirling swastika on a home in Romersheim; a house blessing inscription for Karl and Katherina (Gilcher) Helm, 1883, Oberalben.
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