Pfarrkirche St. Nikolaus Neuötting, Gothic parish church in Neuötting, Germany.
Pfarrkirche St. Nikolaus is a Gothic parish church in Neuötting with a 78-meter tower topped by a distinctive octagonal section and pointed spire. The building houses interior decorations from multiple artistic traditions alongside a four-manual organ built in 1980.
The choir was begun in 1410, as an inscription on the sacristy door arch records, followed by the 78-metre tower on the north flank and the first chapel on the south side by 1429. Money ran out, so the second phase (1430–1446) added only two north chapels paid for by donors, and work then stopped for 14 years. The nave and aisles were finished in 1484–1492 but left unvaulted; the vaults came only in 1622.
The eleven side chapels, five on the north and six on the south, hold Renaissance ceiling frescoes of around 1600 that were uncovered during the interior restoration of 1974 to 1984. The chapel furnishings are neo-Gothic: altars, carved Stations of the Cross reliefs and confessionals. In the Chapel of the Sorrowful Mother, opposite the north portal, stands a Pietà; the eastern Holy Cross Chapel keeps two late-Gothic altar panels of Saints Achatius and Sigismund.
The church interior measures 49 meters long, 22.5 meters high and 21 meters wide, with eleven side chapels: five on the north side and six on the south. The main entrance is on the south side through the south portal, built between 1460 and 1480. The nave has six bays and three aisles, so allow time to walk along both rows of chapels.
The 1949 bronze bells from Karl Czudnochowsky's Erding foundry sound the notes h0, dis1, fis1 and gis1. The largest, the St. Nikolaus bell at 41.5 hundredweight, carries the inscription "vivos voco" (I call the living) and "Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe".
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