Church of Saint Nicholas in Mölln, Romanesque parish church in Mölln, Germany.
St. Nicolai is a brick church on the Eichberg above Mölln's old town, originally built as a late Romanesque three-aisled pillar basilica. Its tower and south aisle are Brick Gothic; the tower's present form dates to 1391 and is topped by a Baroque roof lantern. Inside, slender columns carry pointed arches, white plastered walls above the arcades bear floral and geometric painting, and a large wooden cross hangs from the ceiling.
Construction began in the late 12th or early 13th century; the choir was likely finished by 1217, when the Bishop of Ratzeburg held a synod here. The south aisle was extended in Gothic style in 1470/71, followed in 1497 by the baptismal chapel and two-storey sacristy. A chapel dedicated to St Jobst was added on the north side. A major renovation in 1896 demolished the Jobst chapel and the sacristy's upper storey.
The church hosts religious services and musical performances, serving as a gathering place where locals and visitors come together throughout the year. It remains woven into the daily rhythm of community life in Mölln.
The church stands on the Eichberg, high above Mölln's medieval old town, not on the market square. Visitors reach it on foot via the lanes climbing from the lower town; the tower was given a supporting buttress because of the unstable ground beneath it.
The tower, in its present form dating from 1391, was given a supporting buttress because of the unstable ground beneath it, and is topped by a baroque-era roof lantern. Inside, the seven-armed bronze candelabra of 1436 is thought to have come from the Birgittine convent of Marienwohlde, dissolved in the Reformation; an inscription records its renovation by the Stecknitz boatmen's guild in 1669.
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