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St. Nicholas Parish Church (Zwiesel)

St. Nicholas Parish Church (Zwiesel)

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St. Nicholas Parish Church (Zwiesel)

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Location: Zwiesel, Regen, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

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JakobusPilger

February 4, 2022

Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, to whom the church in Zwiesel is dedicated, is – alongside Saint Martin – probably one of the most popular saints of all time. His feast day, December 6th, is probably familiar to almost every child in Germany – and far beyond. On the eve of this day, children used to place their shoes and boots – which had, of course, been carefully polished – outside the door so that Saint Nicholas could fill them with gifts during the night. In more agricultural areas, it was also customary for children to also leave a small offering of food for the donkey, Saint Nicholas's mount (according to another tradition, it was a gray horse).

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Pat2000

February 22, 2022

St. Nicholas Parish Church. The current church is the fourth to stand here; the previous ones all burned down. The current church dates from 1896 and is in the neo-Gothic style. The church steeple is 86 meters high. It is a three-aisled basilica, with a nave 68 meters long, and the nave and side aisles form a cross. The organ has 1,700 pipes.

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JR56

October 8, 2025

With its 86-meter-high church tower—the tallest in the Diocese of Passau—the neo-Gothic church, the Parish Church of St. Nicholas in Zwiesel, is the dominant landmark of this bustling town.
The three-aisled, red-brick building was built between 1892 and 1896 according to plans by the Munich architect Johann Baptist Schott (1853–1913), and the church was soon dubbed the "Cathedral of the Bavarian Forest." During the extensive renovation from 1983 to 1987, the interior received a new color scheme, enhancing the spatial impression and bringing the architectural and artistic quality of the church to its fullest.

Since then, the centerpiece has been the modern central altar and the clay-ceramic ambo by the artist Horst Fochler, born in 1940, from Ihrlerstein near Kelheim. They were erected on an island below the crossing and harmonize perfectly with the neo-Gothic church furnishings (high altar, side altars, pulpit, Stations of the Cross, and choir stalls). Of note are the life-size statue of the Bound Savior, a work by the important Augsburg Rococo sculptor Ehrgott Bernhard Bendl from 1730 in the left side chapel, and the Pieta, created by an unknown master from the Mondsee region around 1550, in the right side chapel.

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Location: Zwiesel, Regen, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

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