"For the Glory of Our Kaisership, in Honour and Homage of Virgin Mary, Mother of God." On the Meaning, Function and Architecture of Frauenkirche in Nurenberg
Abstract
The observations reported in this paper deal with the original significance of the church of Our Lady in Nurenberg. It was founded by Charles IV (1316-1389) in 1355 when he returned from his crown-journey to Rome.
The construction began already at latest in 1352 on the place of ancien synagoge (destroyed during the jewish pogrom in 1349) and finished in the early 1360's. We attemp to approach the original appearance of this "imperial chapel" especially through two capital themes.
At first we discuss the cultus-matter, that means liturgy, devotion, iconography and research of the liturgic functions of the architecture. In the second theme, that is the problem of authorship of the architecture.
We don t agree with the hypothesis, that the church was build by young Peter Parler, nevertheles there are many stylistic affinities to the parlerian architecture.