The Nikolauskapelle, built onto the cathedral in 1058
Tympanum (ca 1320) over chapel entrance, showing Nicholas with a ship, sailors, and the three officers
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Tympanum: Nicholas as patron saint of boatman and helper in difficulty
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Left: rescuing a ship; right: preventing execution of innocents
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Nikolauskapelle plaque at chapel entrance
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Three virgins
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Detail of three virgins
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St. Mary's Altar in Nikolauskapelle is from around 1500, installed here around 1900
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St Nicholas on the St. Mary's Altar
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St. Nicholas the best preserved old fresco
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Reliquary dedicated in 1990
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Icon behind the reliquary
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Romanesque Nikolaus tympanum at the entrance to the first St. Nicholas Chapel, consecrated in 1058
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Nikolauskapelle is the baptistry for the church; stone Gothic font is from Johanneskirche
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A St. Nicholas Chapel was built onto the cathedral in 1058 to hold the St. Nicholas relic given by Empress Theophanu in 980. This larger chapel was built between 1280 and 1315. The relics were lost during the Nine Years' War (1688-97). The Bishop of Bari gave a new bottle of Manna to the basilica in 1986. A new reliquary was dedicated in 1990. The former cathedral is now a parish church, designated as a basilica in 1925.