Parish Church St. Nicolai Pulsnitz

image author: Peter Hennig

The parish church St. Nicolai, situated south of the market is a church with a late-gothic nave and wonderful baroque interior.
Organ concerts for special occasions, ecclesiastical performances and culture events take place with increasing regularity.
The church was first mentioned in an episcopal certificate in the year 1473.
The pulpit, created around 1600 is of special cultural-historical value. It was designed in exacting wood carving.
A remembrance chapel was constructed in 1934 in the sacristy, the church's oldest room, for the sculptor Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel (1804-1861) who was born in Pulsnitz. Rietschel, one of Germany's late-classicism' most important sculptors, created the Goethe-Schiller-memorial in Weimar.
An extensive inner restoration of the church took place in 1995.

Pulsnitz is widely known as Saxony's “Gingerbread Town" where since  1558 bakers are allowed to bake the biscuits "gingerbread". The Pulsnitz craft enterprises still produce these spicy specialities all year round.
The city has of course other sights of interest, like the Saxon posting milestone of 1731 in front of the Schützenhaus, the 1708-18 newly in baroque style constructed palace with park and palace pond, which houses today a rehabilitation clinic for neurology / neurosurgery as well as the Ernst-Rietschel-Memorial at the medieval market.