St. Nikolai, Lutheran church in Höttingen, Germany.
St. Nikolai is a Lutheran parish church in Weiboldshausen, part of Höttingen, at Burgstraße 11. Its medieval square choir tower was raised in 1760 with an octagonal ashlar storey holding the clock and bells, topped by a bell-shaped roof. The two-storey nave, added to the west in 1761–1764 to plans by Johann David Steingruber, has galleries and a gable roof. The exterior is pale yellow plaster with a red tiled roof.
The core of the square choir tower is medieval. In 1760 the tower was raised by an octagonal ashlar storey housing the clock and bell frame, and from 1761 to 1764 the nave was rebuilt as a hall church in Margrave style to plans by Johann David Steingruber. The building is listed as monument D-5-77-141-27, and its medieval and early modern remains are also recorded as a Bodendenkmal.
The parish belongs to the Weißenburg deanery within the Nuremberg church district of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria. The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas of Myra, and the building at Burgstraße 11 stands amid other listed buildings in the village centre.
The church stands at Burgstraße 11 in the elevated centre of Weiboldshausen, at 430 m above sea level, surrounded by other listed buildings. The choir tower's lower section keeps two small round windows on its front face, while the clock sits in the octagonal storey above. The nave lies to the west of the tower, so approach from the village core to see the full length of the red-roofed hall.
The church's correct address is Burgstraße 11, not Hauptstraße. It stands at 430 m above sea level in the village centre, and the medieval and early modern remains of the church and its predecessor buildings are also protected as an archaeological monument, D-5-6932-0013.
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