St. Nikolaus parish church (Pfronten)

St. Nikolaus parish church
St. Nikolaus parish church
	Pfarrkirche St. Nikolaus
	47°35′09.1″N10°33′27.5″E / 47.585861°N 10.557639°E Coordinates: 47°35′09.1″N10°33′27.5″E / 47.585861°N 10.557639°E
Country	Germany
Denomination	Catholic
Website	www.stnikolaus-pfronten.de
Administration
Parish	Pfronten
Diocese	Augsburg [1]
Clergy
Pastor(s)	Bernd Leumann [1]

Last updated February 23, 2019

The St. Nikolaus parish church (German: Pfarrkirche St. Nikolaus) is the parish church of Pfronten in the Ostallgäu district of Bavaria in Germany.

German is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Tyrol (Italy), the German-speaking Community of Belgium, and Liechtenstein. It is also one of the three official languages of Luxembourg and a co-official language in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland. The languages which are most similar to German are the other members of the West Germanic language branch: Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low German/Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, and Yiddish. There are also strong similarities in vocabulary with Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, although those belong to the North Germanic group. German is the second most widely spoken Germanic language, after English.

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Pfronten is a municipality in the district of Ostallgäu in Bavaria in Germany.

The ceiling fresco is the work of Josef Keller.^[2]

Fresco is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid, or wet lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting becomes an integral part of the wall. The word fresco is derived from the Italian adjective fresco meaning "fresh", and may thus be contrasted with fresco-secco or secco mural painting techniques, which are applied to dried plaster, to supplement painting in fresco. The fresco technique has been employed since antiquity and is closely associated with Italian Renaissance painting.

In popular culture

The exterior of the church appears in the movie The Great Escape .^[3]

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References

1 2 "Grußwort" [Greetings]. St. Nikolaus Parish. Retrieved 2014-09-04.
↑ "Pfarrkirche". Archived from the original on 2013-12-17. Deckengemälde (Joseph Keller) [...]
↑ "Pfronten". thegreatescapelocations.com. Archived from the original on 2011-02-18. Steve McQueen's motorcycle stunts and many other scenes in The Great Escape were filmed in and around Pfronten-Berg with the beautiful St.Nikolaus Church often appearing in the background.

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[homepage-1] 1 2 "Grußwort" [Greetings]. St. Nikolaus Parish. Retrieved 2014-09-04.

[2] "Pfarrkirche". Archived from the original on 2013-12-17. Deckengemälde (Joseph Keller) [...]

[3] "Pfronten". thegreatescapelocations.com. Archived from the original on 2011-02-18. Steve McQueen's motorcycle stunts and many other scenes in The Great Escape were filmed in and around Pfronten-Berg with the beautiful St.Nikolaus Church often appearing in the background.