Nordhausen No. 3 / Nordhusa / Nordhuse / Nordhusen / Northusia

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: view of the church ca.1929; it had lost its twin towers by this time; the church was totally destroyed in an Allied air raid on 3 April 1945

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Image Source: digital image of a ca. 1929 B&W photograph by Carl Schiewek in Oskar Doering's Nordhausen (Augsburg: Dr. B. Filser, 1929) [https://nordhausen-wiki.de/images/4/47/Marktkirche_Nordhausen_1929_Schiewek.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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Image Source: digital image of a ca. 1929 B&W photograph by Carl Schiewek in Oskar Doering's Nordhausen (Augsburg: Dr. B. Filser, 1929) [https://nordhausen-wiki.de/index.php?title=Datei:Inneres_der_Marktkirche_Nordhausen_1929_Schiewek.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2018]

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view of font and cover in context

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a ca. 1929 B&W photograph by Carl Schiewek in Oskar Doering's Nordhausen (Augsburg: Dr. B. Filser, 1929) [https://nordhausen-wiki.de/index.php?title=Datei:Inneres_der_Marktkirche_Nordhausen_1929_Schiewek.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 21704NOR
Church/Chapel: Evangelische Kirche St. Nikolai [aka Marktkirche]
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: NB: coordinates given atr for the present site where the church stood; a parking lot occupied the site after the total demolition of the ruins in 1956
Country Name: Germany
Location: Nordhausen, Thüringen
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the highways 4-38 crossroads, 60 km E of Göttingen, 80 km W of Halle (Saale)
Font Location in Church: Located in the chancel in 1945
Date: 1588
Century and Period: 16th century(late), Late Gothic
Church Notes: single-nave church documented 1220; expanded 1490; damaged in fires of 1612, 1710 and 1712; almost totally destroyed in the Allied air raid of 3 April 1945; remains demolished completely 1956
The font at the time of the destruction of the church in 1945 was a wooden one of 1588; it was located in the chancel; it consisted of a hexagonal (?) basin profusely decorated all around; the upper basin side had six large cherub heads at the angles; the side panels has scenes in them; the underbowl, the pedestal stem and the lower base, also hexagonal, were cover in mouldings and decorations. A hexagonal with matching decoration was on the font. Presumably totally destroyed in the air raid of 3 April 1945.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.502163, 10.793773
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 30′ 7.79″ N, 10° 47′ 37.58″ E
UTM: 32U 624500 5707195

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: wood
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1588?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]