Chiesa Di San Giorgio Dei Tedeschi - Pisa, Italy
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member razalas
N 43° 43.306 E 010° 23.822
32T E 612528 N 4841919
The church of San Giorgio to the Germans is located in Via Santa Maria in Pisa .
Waymark Code: WMKEXC
Location: Toscana, Italy
Date Posted: 04/03/2014
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member silverquill
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"The name of this Church comes from the battle of Montecatini (1315) during which German soldiers died fighting on the side of the Pisans. In their honour, a German confraternity founded this Church in 1317, and decorated it with the arms of the knights. These decorations were removed some time before 1643.
In 1414 the building was annexed to the Foundlings Hospital (Ospedale dei Trovatelli) and, under the new name of San Giorgio degli Innocenti, became the chapel of the adjacent hospital. Later both Church and Institution were governed by the Ospedale degli Innocenti in Florence (1567) and finally they passed to the Ospedali Riuniti di Santa Chiara (1784), to which they still belong and who, in 1989, conceded their use to the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre (Cavalieri del Santo Sepolcro).
The church is built entirely in brick. A pattern of small bricks enlivens the flat wall of the gabled front, decorated with a row of dead archlets and a double mullioned window. In the lunette above the door is a fresco of the Holy Family painted in the manner of the 14th century by Curzio Rossi in 1932. The south wall of the Church, too, is decorated with dead arches and double mullioned windows. A small belfry stands above the roof.
The simple interior has an early 19th century wooden coffered ceiling and on the walls are 19th century copies of ovals painted (in about 1773) by Giovanni Stella e Giuseppe Soldaini, depicting Christ, the Madonna and Saints On the north wall is a marble altar (1722) above which hangs a canvas with the Massacre of the Innocents by Domenico Ceuli. Above are two 18th century works by Giovan Battista Fanucci and, on the left of the high altar, is an Immaculate Conception, by an unknown 18th century artist."

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Type of Church: Church

Status of Building: Actively in use for worship

Date of building construction: 01/01/1317

Diocese: Pisa

Address/Location:
Pisa, Tuscany Italy


Relvant Web Site: [Web Link]

Date of organization: Not listed

Dominant Architectural Style: Not listed

Associated Shrines, Art, etc.: Not listed

Archdiocese: Not listed

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