Frauenkirche, Nuremberg

Frauenkirche
West façade
Map
LocationNuremberg
CountryGermany
DenominationRoman Catholic
History
StatusParish church
Consecrated1358
Architecture
Functional statusActive
StyleGothic
Groundbreaking1352
Completed1361
Specifications
Bells3
Administration
ArchdioceseBamberg
ParishParish of Our Lady
German: Pfarramt Unsere liebe Frau
Clergy
Pastor(s)Markus Bolowich
Laity
Organist/Director of musicFrank Dillmann
(kantor)

The Frauenkirche ("Church of Our Lady") is a church in Nuremberg, Germany. It stands on the eastern side of the main market. An example of brick Gothic architecture, it was built on the initiative of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor between 1352 and 1362. The church contains many sculptures, some of them heavily restored. Numerous works of art from the Middle Ages are kept in the church, such as the so-called Tucher Altar (c. 1440, originally the high altar of the Augustinian church of St. Vitus), and two monuments by Adam Kraft (c. 1498). It has been a parish church of the Catholic Church since 1810.