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The Old St. Nicholas Church (in German
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: ''Alte Nikolaikirche'') in Frankfurt
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, Germany
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, is a medieval
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Lutheran
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church. It is located near the Römer
The Römer (German surname, "Roman") is a medieval building in the Altstadt of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and one of the city's most important landmarks. The Römer is located opposite the Old St. Nicholas Church and has been the city hall ( ...
city hall in Frankfurt's old town called Altstadt
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. It has 51 bells; 4 are used for peal
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s and 47 are used for carillon
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s. The first chapel on its site was built in the mid-12th century, the current in the mid-15th. Its congregation forms part of today's Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau
The Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau (, EKHN) is a United Protestant church body in the German federal states of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate. There is no bishop and therefore no cathedral. One of its most prominent churches is Katharinen ...
, comprising Lutheran, Reformed and United Protestant congregations.
Despite major destruction in the surrounding old town owing to the bombing of Frankfurt am Main in World War II
Bombing of Frankfurt am Main by the Allies of World War II killed about 5,500 residents and destroyed the largest half-timbered historical city centre in Germany (the Eighth Air Force dropped 12,197 tons of explosives on the city Bombing the E ...
, the Old St Nicholas Church had only minor damage. Nearby, the Dom-Römer Project
The New Frankfurt Old Town (), also known as the Dom-Römer Quarter ( or ), is the centre of the old town of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was reconstructed from 2012 to 2018 as part of a major urban development project called the Dom-Römer ...
aims to bring back parts of the old town between the Römerberg
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square and Frankfurt Cathedral
Frankfurt Cathedral (), officially Imperial Dome of Saint Bartholomew (), is a Roman Catholic Gothic church located in the heart of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is dedicated to Saint Bartholomew.
It is the largest religious building in the c ...
.
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* Churches in Frankfurt Frankfurt-Altstadt Frankfurt Main Nicholas Old {{Germany-Lutheran-church-stub