St. Elisabeth
St. Elisabeth is a Roman Catholic church at Jakobsplatz in Nuremberg, southern Germany, facing the Gothic St. James’s Church. Its neoclassical façade and prominent dome shape one of the city’s historic religious settings.
A chapel stood here in 1235, and after the Reformation it remained Nuremberg’s only Roman Catholic church. Decades of negotiations with the city ended in 1780, allowing construction to begin with a foundation stone laid on 19 May 1785. Franz Ignaz Michael Neumann designed the building, while Peter Anton von Verschaffelt continued the work after Neumann’s death in 1789. The dome received its golden cross in 1803, although secularisation followed in 1806.
The Archdiocese of Bamberg acquired the church in 1885, and work reached the original plans in 1903. Inside this accessible landmark, the large dome recalls a project shaped by changing architects, shifting finances and centuries of religious history.
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