Pulpit of St. Georg (Nördlingen)
The pulpit of the Protestant parish church of St. Georg in Nördlingen , a town in the Donau-Ries district in Bavaria , was created in 1499 by an Augsburg master.
description
The late Gothic stone pulpit has a plinth with lush, intricate ribs and a staircase with an open-work tracery parapet . The four evangelists with their symbols are depicted as reliefs on the pulpit . In between, the Man of Sorrows , Mary , Mary Magdalene , John the Evangelist and St. George can be seen under canopies .
The baroque sound cover , on which Christ is enthroned with the globe, was made by Johann Michael Ehinger in 1681. The wooden sound cover is decorated with putti and angel heads.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia (arranged by: Bruno Bushart , Georg Paula ) . 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1989, ISBN 3-422-03008-5 , p. 773 .
Web links
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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 2.5 ″ N , 10 ° 29 ′ 19 ″ E