Supper. The imposing interior has one nave, large windows, and a vaulted ceiling with lunettes. The great high altar has six columns and an altarpiece representing the Coronation of Mary painted by Joseph Renzler in 1822, beside are two wood-carving of the Saints Francis Xavier and John of Nepomuk. Above the altar on the right is placed a statue of the Madonna with Child of 17th century bordered by the Rosary formed by fifteen painted discs presumably by Joseph Mildorfer. Civil architecture Zwölferturm The Zwölferturm is a 46 m. high tower erected in 1470, it is the symbol of the city that divides the New Town from Old Town. A fire in 1867 destroyed the original spire, which was replaced with the present embattled roof. Town Hall Built in 1468–72 in late gothic style while, the angular "Erker" was added in 1526. In the patio take place a Roman stone altar, dedicated to Lord Mithras and a milestone of the Imperator Septimius Severus; the same period the military road was completed in 200 A.D. New Town (Neustadt) It is the main street of the old city centre with buildings erected after the 1417 fire, during a period when the town was prosperous with the trade and the silver mines in the nearby Ridnaun Valley and Pflersch Valley. Military architecture Reifenstein Castle Outside the city is the Reifenstein Castle, one of the best-preserved medieval castles in the province. Notable people from Sterzing Olden times Vigil Raber (1490–1552) restorer and painter, later writer and editor and pianist Michael Gaismair (1490 Sterzing – 1532), Social revolutionary, Master builder, leader of the German Peasants' War (1524–1525) Michael Toxites (1514–1581), Doctor, Humanist and Literary man Kasper Goltwurm (1524, Sterzing – 1559), Lutheran theologian More modern times Johann Baptist Gänsbacher (1778–1844) composer and conductor Anton Mitterwurzer (1818–76) baritone opera singer Carl Domanig (1851–1913), Writer Konrad Fischnaller (1855, Sterzing – 1941), teacher and historian Andreas Khol (born 1941) an Austrian politician, raised in Sterzing Alexander Langer (1946–1995) Italian journalist, peace activist, politician, translator and teacher. Franco Bernabè (born 1948) banker, formerly CEO of Telecom Italia Johannes Pramsohler (born 1980) a violinist, conductor and record producer Sport Carlo Gartner (1922–2013) alpine skier, competed in the 1948 and 1952 Winter Olympics Herbert Plank (born 1954) alpine skier, competed in the 1976 and 1980 Winter Olympics Oswald Tötsch (born 1964) former alpine skier, competed in the 1984 and 1988 Winter