The good people of Mayen tricked the devil into helping them to build their church and he was so enraged about it that he tried to tear off the spire. He twisted it this way and that but it didn’t come off. So he left enraged and the spire stayed up – albeit all twisted and asked. That’s the legend and the spire became the emblem of Mayen. Allied bombers destroyed the church in 1945 but it was rebuilt – with the twisted spire.

FOWC with Fandango: Askance

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