The Beautiful Churches of Nuremberg

When you visit an old city or town, your eye usually rests first on the spires of the cathedrals and churches.  They seem to pull you their direction, and through their big heavy doors into sacred spaces.

We have traveled to Nuremberg (Nürnberg) for the rest of our Christmas week.  We’ll spend 3 nights here in this beautiful and historical place.

We arrived midday and oriented ourselves to the churches and the layout of the old town.  We often forget that these old towns have sprawling modern cities surrounding them.

This is Seybald’s Church, very close to our Agneshof Hotel.

This is how it looked after the WWII bombings:

Here’s the home across the street from the Seybald Church:

Here is the Frauenkirche, closed for renovation.  One of the Christmas Markets was set up in front of this church.  The market was being taken down this week.

 

And here is the Lorenz Kirche.  This one has special meaning to me.  I first visited here in 2003 with a group of distant Laemmlen/Laemmle/Lemmel cousins.  We had a reunion organized by Hans Dieterich Lemmel in Austria.  He has researched the various branches of our family and the history of the Laemmlen name.

In the pics below you will see that the Laemmlen crest (Little Lamb) is on the pulpit stone of the Lorenz Kirche.

Here is the pulpit stone with our family crest on it:

These churches are filled with magnificent artwork which was removed and hidden in bunkers during the war to keep it safe.  Thank goodness.

Here you can see the destruction to this magnificent church during WWII.

Here is the 3rd church we visited, St. Elisabeth’s:

These visits were a nice way to begin our visit in Nuremberg.  And a nice place to remember Jesus and his birth.