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in southern

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. It is dedicated to Saint James the Greater. The church was badly damaged during the

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and later restored.

History

The church was founded on 20 February 1209 by

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. The small Romanesque chapel was demolished about 80 years later and the church rebuilt. The church soon came into the possession of the

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.The Reformation of the Keys: Ronald K Rittgers, Harvard University Press 1999 By Frederick II, the order was equipped with more and more possessions. The church still contains the

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on the high altar which dates from 1360 to 1370. During the Reformation, the Church of St. James was one of the Protestant Churches. In 1531 a preacher was intended, but the church remained in possession of the Catholic Teutonic Order. In 1632 during the Thirty Years' War King Gustav Adolf expropriated the Teutonic Order, and handed the church to the city of Nuremberg and which carried out an extensive renovation. By the provisions of the

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returned to the Teutonic Order in 1648. The Order kept its hold until 1809, when

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ordered its dissolution. In 1810 St. Jakob became the third Protestant parish church of

Organ

The church contains a three manual pipe organ by Steinmeyer Orgelbau dating from 1968. *Hauptwerk *1. Pommer 16' *2. Prinzipal 8' *3. Spitzflöte 8' *4. Oktave 4' *5. Kleingedackt 4' *6. Schwiegel 2' *7. Rauschquinte 2 fach 2²/₃'+2' *8. Mixtur 4-6 fach 1¹/₃' *9. Trompete 8' *Kronpositiv *10. Singend Gedackt 8' *11. Dulzflöte 8' *12. Praestant 4' *13. Koppelflöte 4' *14. Nasard 2²/₃' *15. Oktave 2' *16. Quintlein 1¹/₃' *17. Terzmixtur 3 fach 1' *18. Zimbel 3 fach ²/₃' *Tremulant *Brustwerk *19. Holzgedackt 8' *20. Gemshorn 8' *21. Harfenprinzipal 4' *22. Rohrflöte 4' *23. Prinzipal 2' *24. Blockflöte 1' *25. Kleinkornett 3 fach 2²/₃' *26. Scharf 5 fach 1' *27. Musette 16' *28. Rohrschalmei 8' *Tremulant *Pedal *29. Prinzipalbaß 16' *30. Subbaß 16' *31. Zartbaß 16' *32. Oktavbaß 8' *33. Gedecktbaß 8' *34. Pommer 4' *35. Italienisch Prinzipal 2' *36. Choralbaß 3 fach 4' *37. Baßzink 3 fach 2²/₃' *38. Posaune 16' *39. Trompete 8'

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*This page is based on the article on German Wikipedia. {{Authority control

Jacob Jacob, later known as Israel, is a Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions. He first appears in the Torah, where he is described in the Book of Genesis as a son of Isaac and Rebecca. Accordingly, alongside his older fraternal twin brother E ...

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