St. Nicholas' Chapel, Hanover Explained

St. Nicholas' Chapel
Native Name:Nikolaikapelle
Native Name Lang:de
Location:Hanover
Mapframe-Caption: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
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St. Nicholas' Chapel
Native Name:Nikolaikapelle
Native Name Lang:de
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Location:Hanover
Country:Germany
Denomination:Lutheran
Previous Denomination:Catholic
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St. Nicholas' Chapel (de|Nikolaikapelle) is an architectural heritage monument (German: Baudenkmal) and the oldest building in Hanover, Germany. 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. 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 -year-old choir left standing as a monument.

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