St. Michael, Gothic church in Neunkirchen am Brand, Germany

St. Michael is a single-nave Gothic church of light grey stone blocks with a steep red-brown tiled roof, a polygonal apse with grouped lancet windows and buttresses, and a square west tower with a pyramidal roof. Inside, a flat-roofed main nave and a northern side aisle with ribbed vaults are separated by arcades on octagonal pillars.

A single-nave church of the 11th/12th century was rebuilt around 1270/1280; in the second half of the 14th century the cloister was built and the choir renewed. Around 1400 the nave was widened and a side aisle added, and the Marienkapelle was built before 1437. After the monastery was dissolved in 1552 the tower was raised, the main nave around 1690, and in 1702 the east wing became the rectory.

The church holds paintings transferred from Albrecht Dürer's Marienleben cycle, made around 1520, and two altar wings of 1480/1490 attributed to Hans Traut the Elder. In the side aisle, wall-painting fragments show a Man of Sorrows and a Madonna from around 1430. A wooden Saint Michael of around 1500 now stands at the gallery.

The church is easily reached on foot from the town center of Neunkirchen am Brand with good visibility from the street. Visitors should check opening hours in advance, as access may be limited depending on services or events.

The north wall annex bears the year 1492 and holds an Oil Mount group, a simplified version of the porch on the north side of Nuremberg's St. Lorenz. The church also keeps a red marble slab for Wolfram von Egloffstein, who died in 1459, showing the deceased in relief.