St. Nicholas (Brzeg)

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West portal of the Nikolaikirche

The Church of St. Nicholas (Polish Kościół św. Mikołaja ) is located in the old town of Brzeg (Ger. Brieg ) on Jana Pawła II Square in the Opole Voivodeship . The Gothic brick church was the city's Protestant church until 1945.

history

Wood engraving from 1884
Interior of the church

The church was built between 1365 and 1417 on the site of the parish church at that time. Before that, a church was mentioned in the same place as early as 1279. The choir was built between 1383 and 1390 under H. Pfeifferfleisch. The outer walls of the church were completed in 1389. In 1524 the church became Protestant. With the formation of the Evangelical Church in the Royal Prussian Lands from 1817, the parish came to the ecclesiastical province of Silesia .

The church was renovated between 1856 and 1885. Between 1884 and 1885 the west towers were raised and the church porches were rebuilt. Furthermore, under the direction of the architect Carl Johann Lüdecke, a neo-Gothic gable , a new portal and a new window were added on the west side.

In 1945 the church was destroyed during the battle for the city and burned down. After Brieg came under Polish administration, the church became a Roman Catholic parish church. Between 1958 and 1967 the church was rebuilt on the initiative of the priest Kazimierz Makarski.

The church was registered on November 15, 1958 under the number 683/63 in the register of architectural monuments of the Opole Voivodeship.

architecture

The St. Nicholas Church has one of the highest naves in Silesia at 30 m. The church has a three-aisled , eight-bay nave. The main nave is closed with star vaults.

From the old, richly furnished interior, bourgeois memorial plaques (from the Renaissance to the Baroque) have been preserved. In the choir is the Gothic triptych (winged altar) , created in 1500 . During the reconstruction, Gothic polychromy was discovered in the sacristy, the date of which is dated between 1418 and 1428. The medieval polychromy trail (blue markings) begins in the Nikolaikirche. The choir as well as the rooms behind the organ and in the side aisles are decorated with modern stained glass windows.

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Nikolaus (Brzeg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monuments of the Opole Voivodeship (Polish)

Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 36.6 ″  N , 17 ° 28 ′ 14.2 ″  E