Kirche St. Klara
Early Gothic convent church with a life-size late-medieval crucifixion group and an abbess's grave.
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This guide to St. Klara on Nuremberg's Königstraße starts at a carved crucifixion group and a skull at Mary Magdalene's knees, then turns to the Poor Clares who lived here when the city council went Lutheran in the fifteen twenties. You'll meet the abbess Caritas Pirckheimer, sister of a famous humanist, and the council that wanted her convent and its property. The story also follows the centuries when the Gothic nave served purposes far from prayer. Stand near the crucifixion group to begin.
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