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    July 19, 2017

    The ruin of the main church St. Nikolai on Hamburg's Hopfenmarkt is dedicated as a memorial to St. Nikolai "to the victims of war and tyranny between 1933 and 1945".

    The church was founded in 1195 and its last neo-Gothic version was completed in 1874. Its 147.3 meter high tower was the tallest structure in the world from 1874 to 1877. After the war destruction in 1943 and the extensive demolition in 1951, part of the southern outer wall and the walls of the choir are still preserved next to the tower. For a memorial, works of art and monuments were set up on the open space of the former church interior and in the immediate vicinity. In the basement of the ruin, the Rettet association founded in 1987 organized the Nikolaikirche e. V. (meanwhile renamed the Förderkreis Mahnmal St. Nikolai) a documentation center with a permanent exhibition. The memorial museum was extensively rebuilt and expanded in 2012/2013. The permanent exhibition "Gomorrah 1943 - The Destruction of Hamburg in the Air War" has been on view here since September 2013. Since 2005, a glass elevator in the tower has led to a viewing platform at a height of 76 meters.

    The main church St. Nikolai was relocated in 1962 as a new building in the Harvestehude district of the Klosterstern.

    Source and further information:
    de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehemalige_Hauptkirche_St._Nikolai_%28Hamburg%29
    mahnmal-st-nikolai.de

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      March 29, 2019

      The ruins of St. Nicholas Church is a memorial. It is meant to commemorate the destruction of Hamburg in World War II. There is an interesting, but also oppressive museum in the basement vaults of the church.

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        June 19, 2021

        The ruins of the main church St. Nicolai on Hamburg's Hopfenmarkt are a memorial to the victims of war and tyranny. There is also a museum and an observation tower.

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