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The St. Nicolai Church has a unique set of carved altars from the decades around 1500. From the original 16 altars 9 are still here. The St. Nicolai Church is the parish church of the little German town Kalkar in the Lower Rhine region near the Dutch border.
In this panorama of the choir in the east the main altar is dominant, which shows the passion of Christ, with 208 carved people (begun by Arnt of Zwolle, also called Arnt Beeldsnijder, completed by Louis Jupan from 1492 to 1500). The wings were painted by Jan Joest, on the right of the altar are rear wings by Jan Joest. Left of the main altar, a late Gothic tabernacle from the middle of the 15th Century.
On the far right in the south chapel you can see a bit of the Siebenschmerzenaltar (Altar of the Seven Sorrows) of Hendrik Douvermann (until 1521). The dominant part to the other side are the choir stalls by Hendrik Bernts (1508).
In the nave towards the west, the back side of the Queen Mary Chandelier is to be seen. Most of the important sculptors worked on it from 1508 to 1549. In the Panorama below the chandelier stands a new very simple, beautiful altar of Erwin Heerich (2000).
The new windows of the Nicolai Church are designed since 2000 by Karl-Martin Hartmann.
The panoramic images were taken on a rainy April day in very low light without a tripod.
Wikipedia Cathedral (Google Translation): here
To the panorama of the nave: here
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Germany? Before the beginning there was Ginnungagap, an empty space of nothingness, filled with pure creative power. (Sort of like the inside of my head.)And it ends with Ragnarok, the twilight of the Gods. In between is much fighting, betrayal and romance. Just as a good Godly story should be.Heroes have their own graveyard called Valhalla. Unfortunately we cannot show you a panorama of it at this time, nor of the lovely Valkyries who are its escort service.Hail Odin, wandering God wielding wisdom and wand! Hail Freya, hail Tyr, hail Thor!Odin made the many lakes and the fish in them. In his traverses across the lands he caused there to be the Mulheim Bridge in Cologne, as did he make the Mercury fountain, Mercury being of his nature.But it is to the mighty Thor that the Hammering Man gives service.Between the time of the Nordic old ones and that of modern Frankfort there may have been a T.Rex or two on the scene. At least some mastodons for sure came through for lunch, then fell into tar pits to become fossils for us to find.And there we must leave you, O my most pure and holy children.Text by Steve Smith.
