Saint Mauritius Chapel (Moritzberg)
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The St. Mauritius Chapel is a mountain chapel located on the summit plateau of the Moritzberg . Moritzberg is a district of Röthenbach an der Pegnitz in the Middle Franconian district of Nürnberger Land ( Bavaria )
history
The chapel was built in 1419 by the Nuremberg patrician Herdegen Valzner . After its completion, it was dedicated to Saint Mauritius . The chapel is also called the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Moritz and is listed as a monument D-5-74-152-20 .
The choir tower church was extended to the west in 1707/08. The nave has a wooden barrel vault from the 18th / 19th century. Century.
The owner of the chapel, Bolko von Oetinger , received the monument protection medal of the Free State of Bavaria in 2015 for the exemplary renovation of the monument.
literature
- Nuremberg country . Karl Pfeiffer's Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Hersbruck 1993. ISBN 3-9800386-5-3
- Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (ed.): Monument Protection Medal 2015 . Munich 2015, pp. 44–45 (without ISBN)
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Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 1.7 ″ N , 11 ° 18 ′ 45 ″ E