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==Main Roman temple and St. Paul's church==
The site where the present Protestant St. Paul's church is standing is a historic site that was a religious place of worship already in Roman times. The Romans built here in the year AD 145 a large podium temple of which very little remains. The temple stood on a "pile structure". The temple builders drove sharpened oak piles into the loamy soil to secure the ground for this heavy building.<ref name="St. Paul's">Badenweiler: [http://www.badenweiler.de/de/kirchen/pauluskirche St. Paul's Church] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225062334/http://www.badenweiler.de/de/kirchen/pauluskirche |date=25 February 2014 }}</ref> The temple was Gallo-Roman with a classic-Italic main front placed on a monumental podium.<ref>Badish Newspaper, 3 July 2008 : [http://www.badische-zeitung.de/badenweiler/grossherzogs-denkmalfrevel--2962210.html Grand Duke's sacrilege of monuments. Only a few remaining traces are giving evidence of a monumental Roman temple in Badenweiler.]</ref> On the ruins of the Roman temple a Christian church was built in the twelfth century. The church was in a bad state when it was demolished in 1892 and rebuilt as a [[Romanesque Revival architecture|Neo-Romanesque]] building between 1893 and 1898.<ref name="St. Paul's" /> In the course of the digging Roman walls and wall fragments of preceding church buildings were discovered and included in the construction of the new church.<ref name="St. Paul's" /> In the previous church's tower six 14th-century frescoes were discovered which are now in the [[choir (architecture)|choir]] of the present church. They show a so-called ''Dance of the Dead'' where living and dead meet. Three skeletons are bearing the inscription: "We were what you are, what we are you shall be." This is addressed to three living (a child, a middle-aged man and an old man) whose garments are corresponding to the fashion of the rich in the 14th century.<ref>Badish Newspaper, 19 November 2011: [http://www.badische-zeitung.de/badenweiler/tote-erinnern-ans-sterben--52147208.html Ancient frescoes in St. Paul's Church remember transience]</ref>