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Nikolai Chapel
Ruins · Germany
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- 1325
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 52.378, 9.732
Why it was abandoned
💥 War & expulsion
Detected automatically from the text: 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.
History
St. Nicholas' Chapel is an architectural heritage monument 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 701-year-old choir left standing as a monument.