Hamburg No. 1 / Hammaburg

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view of church exterior - northeast view

re-building plan after the destruction by fire in 1842
Scene Description: re-building plan after the destruction by fire in 1842
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Image Source: 1846 steel engraving with Sir Gilbert Scott's final draft for the reconstruction of this church; reproduced in Eberhard Petzold, Sylvester M. Robert: Mahnmal St. Nikolai. (Hamburg: Historika Photoverlag,1995 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nikolaikirche_Hamburg_Entwurf.jpg] [accessed 5 July 2014]
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view of church exterior - west tower

in ruins
Scene Description: in ruins
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Image Source: digital photograph taken September 2004 by AlterVista [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamburg_StNikolai_Panorama.jpg] [accessed 5 July 2014]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 19327HAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische St.-Nikolai-Kirche / Haputkirche St. Nikolai [in ruins]
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Willy-Brandt-Straße 60, 20457 Hamburg, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Hamburg, Hamburg
Directions to Site: Located in the city's Harvestehude district
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Hamburg-Bremen
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque
Church Notes: original wooden church started here 1189; three-nave brick church built in 14thC; burned down in 1842; re-built a/p Sir GG Scott's design; damaged in WWI Allied bombings; nave demolished in 1951; no reconstruction planned -- the crypt houses a museum
Font Notes:
[NB: we have no information on the font of the original church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.5475, 9.990556
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 32′ 51″ N, 9° 59′ 26″ E
UTM: 32U 565632 5933635