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St. Nicholas ofWismar was built from 1381 until 1487 as a church for sailors and fishermen. St. Nicholas is one of the finest testaments tomedievalbrick architecture in northernGermany.

Based on the design ofMarienkirche (St. Mary's) inLübeck, it is the second-highest brickbasilica church in the world after St. Mary's of Lübeck. St. Nicholas along with St. Mary's and St. George's is one of the three great churches that dominate the skyline of the city of Wismar. As part of Wismar's historic center, it was inscribed on theUNESCOWorld Heritage List in 2002.^[1]

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• 1226 – Foundation of the city of Wismar
• 1255 – First documentary reference to St Nicholas
• 1270 – A dispatch mentions new construction at St Nicholas.
• 1370 – Start of alterations to the basilica with a choir ambulatory, based on the design of theSt. Mary's Church, Lübeck.
• 1403 –Chancel consecrated.
• 1434 – Construction of the flanking aisles, annexes, and naves.
• 1459 – The church is consecrated.
• 1508 – Construction of the spire
• 1517 – Start of the Reformation
• 1523 –Heinrich Never [de] brings the Reformation to Wismar.
• 1632 – Wismar captured and held by Sweden until 1803
• 1703 – Spire collapses in a severe storm, severely damaging the roof, vaulting, decor, and furnishing of the nave.
• 1867 – Revaulting of the nave
• 1890 – Complete renovation in the contemporary neo-Gothic style
• 1945 – St. Nicholas remains the only large church in Wismar undamaged by war
• 1975 – The Mende organ from Freiberg in Saxony arrives at St. Nicholas Church.
• 1989 – St. Nicholas becomes a platform for political protest in Wismar.
• 2010 – A new organ in the choir is consecrated.

The gable of the southerntransept is covered with decorations of glazed terracotta. There is a large and sophisticated blindrose window with a golden sun in the center. There are galleries with an abundant number of relief sculptures of saints and kings.

Both eastern edges of the tower are decorated with squaredlimestone.

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• The high altar is a product of the late Baroque period (1774)
• The choir organ
• Triumphal cross (15th century)
• Pulpit (1708), a Baroque work byJohannes von Rehn
• Mende Organ. The organ has aRenaissance era casing withBaroque enhancements, and was constructed byJohann Gottlob Mende [de] (1787–1850).
• A bronzebaptismal font (1335) originally from St. Mary's Church. It portrays scenes from Jesus' life as well as the parable of the wise and foolish virgins.
• The high altar and the triumphal cross from St. George Church (both c. 1430) in the southsidechapel.
• Bronze burial slab (1504) ofDuchessSophie of Mecklenburg.
• TheMariner's Altar is the only one of 38 former 'native' altars that remains in St. Nicholas.

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