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St. George's Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Georg), Amberg

St. George's Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Georg), Amberg

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St. George's Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Georg), Amberg

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Location: Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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Rombea

October 28, 2020

The church of St. George, originally built in the 11th century, rebuilt from 1359 and later rebuilt in Baroque style, and the former Jesuit college form a huge building complex. The western front of the building alone, which was built in 1665, is 160 meters long. This means that the building, which was later used by the Order of Malta (its name is still in use today is the Maltese building) and consisting of further side wings, is the longest building in the city.

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ampfortas

January 25, 2020

A very beautiful church in the baroque style with a wonderful parish garden.

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Manuel

March 30, 2018

The Romanesque complex of Amberg's parish church, which was first mentioned in writing in 1094 and whose external appearance is preserved in the oldest Amberg city seal, was replaced by the construction of the Gothic basilica, which began in 1359 and was completed, with the exception of the tower, at the beginning of the 15th century. With the transfer of St. George as a college church to the Jesuits in 1629, the parish rights were transferred to St. Martin.

After Elector Maximilian I rejected the demolition of the church, it was subsequently renovated in Baroque style. In 1652 it was designed in “exquisite white” by the Italian master builder Francesco Garbanini, and from 1718 the entire stucco work and the creation of twelve stucco sculptures of the apostles by Johann Baptist Zimmermann. After the Jesuit order was abolished in 1773, the church came to the Order of the Knights of Malta until its secularization in 1808, and in 1923 it became a parish church again.

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