Sankt Egidien

I seem to be blogging Nürnberg's churches. The one I am omitting is the lovely Frauenkirche, but only because it is being renovated and is currently obscured by scaffolding.
Nürnberg is a Gothic city, but it does boast one single Baroque church, one that I have always been fond of since the days I lived here. Sankt Egidien (that's St. Gilles in English) was originally built in the Middle Ages, then burnt down (there seems to have been a lot of that happening). It was rebuilt in the Baroque style, dedicated in 1718. It survived until the conflagration of 1944. It was decided after the war that rebuilding it in its original form was impossible, so the interior of the new church was modified and simplified. I love the simple, classical look of the decor. It is mostly white, with some tasteful decorative elements. This is a Protestant church after all, much more reserved in feeling.