St. Nicholas' Chapel, Hanover

St. Nicholas' Chapel
Nikolaikapelle
The monument in 2015
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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 (●). [de ]
52°22′41″N 9°43′55″E / 52.377935°N 9.732055°E / 52.377935; 9.732055 Edit this at Wikidata
LocationHanover
Completion date1952; 72 years ago (1952)
Nikolaikapelle
The chapel in 1898
LocationHanover
CountryGermany
DenominationLutheran
Previous denominationCatholic
Architecture
Completed1325; 699 years ago (1325)
The chapel ruins in 2018

St. Nicholas' Chapel (German: Nikolaikapelle) is an architectural heritage monument (Baudenkmal) and the oldest building in Hanover, Germany.[1][2]: 8  First built as a chapel dedicated to Saint Nicholas between 1250 and 1284 and a choir dating to 1325,[3] it was damaged severely during the aerial bombings of Hanover during World War II.[1]: 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 699-year-old choir left standing as a monument.[4]: 287–289 

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