Entrance portal at the Johannis cemetery
Entrance portal at the Johannis cemetery
around 1873
The figures of Mary and John attached to the inside of the eastern entrance portal, which are now lost, are said by Nagel to have come from Adam Kraft's Calvary (Friedrich August Nagel: Der Johanniskirchhof in Nürnberg, in: Monatsblätter der Evang.-luth. Gemeinde St. Johannis, Nov. 1928, p. 2).
Christoph Gottlieb von Murr mentions it in 1778 in his description of the most distinguished sights in the free city of Nuremberg on p. 346.
Location: Art Collections of the City of Nuremberg
Design: Audenrith, Johann Heinrich
Realization: Audenrith, Johann Heinrich
photo
Entrance portal at the Johannis cemetery
around 1873
Detail view
The figures of Mary and John attached to the inside of the eastern entrance portal, which are now lost, are said by Nagel to have come from Adam Kraft's Calvary (Friedrich August Nagel: Der Johanniskirchhof in Nürnberg, in: Monatsblätter der Evang.-luth. Gemeinde St. Johannis, Nov. 1928, p. 2).
Christoph Gottlieb von Murr mentions it in 1778 in his description of the most distinguished sights in the free city of Nuremberg on p. 346.
Location: Art Collections of the City of Nuremberg
Design: Audenrith, Johann Heinrich
Realization: Audenrith, Johann Heinrich
photo
Entrance portal at the Johannis cemetery
around 1873
Detail view
The figures of Mary and John attached to the inside of the eastern entrance portal, which are now lost, are said by Nagel to have come from Adam Kraft's Calvary (Friedrich August Nagel: Der Johanniskirchhof in Nürnberg, in: Monatsblätter der Evang.-luth. Gemeinde St. Johannis, Nov. 1928, p. 2).
Christoph Gottlieb von Murr mentions it in 1778 in his description of the most distinguished sights in the free city of Nuremberg on p. 346.
Location: Art Collections of the City of Nuremberg
Design: Audenrith, Johann Heinrich
Realization: Audenrith, Johann Heinrich
photo
Entrance portal at the Johannis cemetery
around 1873
Comparison picture with today's state
The figures of Mary and John attached to the inside of the eastern entrance portal, which are now lost, are said by Nagel to have come from Adam Kraft's Calvary (Friedrich August Nagel: Der Johanniskirchhof in Nürnberg, in: Monatsblätter der Evang.-luth. Gemeinde St. Johannis, Nov. 1928, p. 2).
Christoph Gottlieb von Murr mentions it in 1778 in his description of the most distinguished sights in the free city of Nuremberg on p. 346.
Location: Art Collections of the City of Nuremberg
Design: Audenrith, Johann Heinrich
Realization: Audenrith, Johann Heinrich
photo 2022, Theo Noll
