our lady's little glass (muttergottesgläschen)

On to Nuremberg/Nürnberg, a beautiful walled medieval city.

Complete with three large medieval churches full of German
polychromy, and an imperial castle.

Oh hey Nuremberg.

Nuremberg Central Station.


An underground wig shop.


Slash drug front.


Amazing.


A café.


Red and white stripes.


Lebkuchenhaus.


Religious statues on building corners.


Street corner.


Stop for lunch at The Original Nürnberger Bratwursthaus.


Sehr gut.


Heading towards church number one:
St. Lorenzkirche.


West front.

Such great heights.


No dogz allowed.


Entering St. Lorenzkirche.


Building began in 1250, but wasn't completed until 1477.


The church is a mecca for medieval polychromy.


Some of my favourite examples...




Oh hey Saint Veronica.


Looking back at the nave and all the amazing polychromy.


Heraldic plaques cover the church and commemorate the
donations of the wealthy patrician families of the medieval city.


Et plus.


Angels holding candlesticks on the rood.


Closed spiral staircase in the aisle.


Angel and glass.


See that gorgeous suspended sculpture ?


One of the treasures of St. Lorenzkirche, it
represents the Annuniciation, dates to 1517-18.


From the guidebook, because my camera can't do it justice.


From below.


Reverse, reverse.


Gorgeous glass.


Altar of the Magi, circa 1460.


Donors.


Back outside & onto the next church...


All the pretty colours.


Cross the river.


And into the main square.


For the Frauenkirche {Church of Our Lady}, built 1352-62.


Built by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV
to house the Imperial Regalia and reliquaries.


Amazing interior ceiling vault.


And gilded typanum.


High altar.


More polychrome !


Words.


Heraldry I liked.


Rushed on to the third kirche.


St. Sebalduskirche.


Pause in the square in front of it.


With the old city hall on the left.


I didn't even get an exterior shot of St. Sebalduskirche, fail.
{So this is from wiki, on a decidedly sunnier day than ours.}


In the nave.


By the time we got to church number three, things were a bit blurry.


Still time to spy a Green Man and heraldry.


Eleanor at the shrine of St. Sebaldus,
the patron saint of Nuremburg.


Mit flash. Gilded silver reliquary !


Bronze snails support the shrine.
I NEED a replica of one, I would use it as a door-stopper.


Lots more gorgeous polychromy and stained glass.


The highlight for me was this window...


Designed by
ALBRECHT EFFING DÜRER.


And that's all for St. Sebaldus.


Happy girl in Nuremberg.


Daylight fading.


Come and waste another year.


Waiting for the moon to come and light me up inside.


When we see the early signs that daylight's fading.
xx