St. Nicholas' Chapel, Hanover
Nikolaikapelle | |
The monument in 2015 | |
St. Nicholas' Chapel was situated outside the old town and the approximate location of the former 13th-century defensive wall encircling it (●) that was within the 17th-century inner bastion (●).
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| Location | Hanover |
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| Coordinates | 52°22′41″N 9°43′55″E / 52.377935°N 9.732055°E |
| Completion date | 1952 |
Nikolaikapelle | |
The chapel in 1898 | |
| Location | Hanover |
| Country | Germany |
| Denomination | Lutheran |
| Previous denomination | Catholic |
| Architecture | |
| Completed | 1325 |
St. Nicholas' Chapel (German: Nikolaikapelle) is an architectural heritage monument (Baudenkmal) and the oldest building in Hanover, Germany.: 8 First built as a chapel dedicated to Saint Nicholas between 1250 and 1284 and a choir dating to 1325, it was damaged severely during the aerial bombings of Hanover during World War II.: 13 In 1953 the then approximately 700-year-old chapel was largely torn down to make way for a road as part of a larger post-war city-wide strategy to accommodate cars, with the currently 700-year-old choir left standing as a monument.: 287–289