St. Lawrence Church — Attraction in Nuremberg

St. Lorenz is one of the very best attractions we visited during our recent stay in Nuremburg. It is located at Lorenzer Platz south of the Pegnitz. Opening hours are 9am to 5.30pm most days with extended hours on Thursday evening and reduced hours on Sundays.

Note: There is a 2 euro suggested donation per visitor and a brochure you can pick up which explains church highlights and shows you where to find them within the church.

Historically, the church dates back to the mid 13th-century and is Gothic in architecture. The facade is attractive, featuring a nice portal, rose window and two bell towers. We very much enjoyed listening to the bells while standing outside St. Lorenz on a couple of occasions. While the exterior is nice to see, it is the interior that is most impressive.

The interior offers a tall nave with ceiling vaults. There are numerous historic sculptures, wood carvings and artworks found throughout. We very much enjoyed seeing the Annunciation by Veit Stross (1518) as well as the delicately carved sandstone Tabernacle by Adam Kraft (1496). This was a real delight to view. Similarly, it is worth finding the Krell Altar piece in the back of the church. This is supposedly the oldest surviving detailed depiction of the walled city of Nuremburg.

In the end, we very much enjoyed our visit to St. Lorenz Church. It is a fine church to visit and a good complement to St. Sebaldus Church on the other side of the Pegnitz River. Together, they make for excellent church sightseeing...

Nürnberger Altstadt

The old town of Nürnberg is certainly worth a visit! A 4 1/2 hour walk was the call of the day!

Although the traditional ChristKindel Market was already closed, the various activities around the old town still made it worth our while!

Without a doubt no visit to Nürnberg is complete without a thorough excursion through the old town, starting with the “Frauen Tor” and subsequent walk to the “Schöner Brunnen” (Beautiful Well) past the Weihnachts Kind Market and arriving at the “Lorenz Kirche”!

Little Fun Fact: out of the 80million people living in Germany today (rounded up numbers) a quarter of them or about 20million, are none native Germans!

Markets & Churches or rather places of worship, no matter which faith or denomination has always been our thing, and once again we were not disappointed! Just love the vibes in the markets, and the serenity of the Church!

Was a great day roaming around, day 1 of 48 done and dusted!

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St. Lorenz is a Gothic church in Nuremberg . The Lorenz Church was the parish church of the medieval settlement core of the former imperial city of Nuremberg, located south of the Pegnitz , and is the urban counterpart to the older St. Sebald Church in the northern part of the city. Construction of the three-aisled basilica began around 1250, and the late Gothic hall choir was completed in 1477. The patron saint of the church is Saint Lorenz . The building, whose roof and vault were badly damaged in the Second World War , was restored. The very important late Gothic furnishings have been largely preserved by being relocated. Of particular note is the famous sacrament house by Adam Kraft .

Since the Reformation, St. Lawrence's Church has been one of Nuremberg's two large Protestant city churches, alongside St. Sebaldus' Church, both of which belong to the Nuremberg deanery of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria . St. Lawrence's Church is the seat of the Nuremberg city dean. The inauguration of the newly elected regional bishop traditionally...