Renaissance-Orgel
Die Schrankflügel-Orgel der Fuggerkapelle in der Annakirche in Augsburg (1512)
Renaissance cabinet wing organ of the Fugger Chapel in St. Anne's Church in Augsburg (1512)
"The House of Fugger [...] is a German upper bourgeois family that was historically a prominent group of European bankers, members of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century mercantile patriciate of Augsburg, international mercantile bankers, and venture capitalists. Alongside the Welser family, the Fugger family controlled much of the European economy in the sixteenth century and accumulated enormous wealth. The Fuggers held a near monopoly on the European copper market.
This banking family replaced the Medici family, who influenced all of Europe during the Renaissance. The Fuggers took over many of the Medicis' assets and their political power and influence. They were closely affiliated with the House of Habsburg whose rise to world power they financed. Unlike the citizenry of their hometown and most other trading patricians of German free imperial cities, such as the Tuchers, they never converted to Lutheranism, as presented in the Augsburg Confession, but rather remained with the Roman Catholic Church and thus close to the Habsburg emperors." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugger_family
"In 1509 - when the church was still Catholic - Jakob Fugger, together with his brother Ulrich Fugger and also in the name of his brother Georg Fugger, who died in 1506, donated a memorial and burial chapel, the Fugger Chapel in St. Anna." It was completed in 1512 and is "one of the first Renaissance buildings in Germany." de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Anna_(Augsburg)
The Anna Church became Protestant in 1525, but the Fugger Chapel has remained Catholic until today.
Renaissance-Orgel
Die Schrankflügel-Orgel der Fuggerkapelle in der Annakirche in Augsburg (1512)
Renaissance cabinet wing organ of the Fugger Chapel in St. Anne's Church in Augsburg (1512)
"The House of Fugger [...] is a German upper bourgeois family that was historically a prominent group of European bankers, members of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century mercantile patriciate of Augsburg, international mercantile bankers, and venture capitalists. Alongside the Welser family, the Fugger family controlled much of the European economy in the sixteenth century and accumulated enormous wealth. The Fuggers held a near monopoly on the European copper market.
This banking family replaced the Medici family, who influenced all of Europe during the Renaissance. The Fuggers took over many of the Medicis' assets and their political power and influence. They were closely affiliated with the House of Habsburg whose rise to world power they financed. Unlike the citizenry of their hometown and most other trading patricians of German free imperial cities, such as the Tuchers, they never converted to Lutheranism, as presented in the Augsburg Confession, but rather remained with the Roman Catholic Church and thus close to the Habsburg emperors." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugger_family
"In 1509 - when the church was still Catholic - Jakob Fugger, together with his brother Ulrich Fugger and also in the name of his brother Georg Fugger, who died in 1506, donated a memorial and burial chapel, the Fugger Chapel in St. Anna." It was completed in 1512 and is "one of the first Renaissance buildings in Germany." de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Anna_(Augsburg)
The Anna Church became Protestant in 1525, but the Fugger Chapel has remained Catholic until today.