SKT. NIKOLAJ KIRKE - Danmarks Kirker - Nationalmuseet

Fig. 235. Ruinen af Koldinghus og kirken set fra nord. Oliemaleri af Peter Nicolai Møller 1880. Museet på Koldinghus.
– Ruins of Koldinghus and the church viewed from the north, 1880.
KOLDING SKT. NIKOLAJ KIRKE
BUILDING. Like so many town churches, Kolding’s
consists of construction elements from the
whole of its 750-year history. The church (cf.
ground plan fig. 15), which is in red brick, appears
as a three-aisled unit with a chancel of the
same width as the central aisle. To this a number
of extra buildings have been added: a tower in the
west, chapels on the south and north side of the
church (often called transepts) and a sacristy on
the south side of the chancel.
At its core the church has the remains of an
interesting building from the mid-1200s; but it
has taken on its present form after two comprehensive
trans formations (in reality rebuildings):
in 1753-58 the tripartite nave was renewed and
heightened, so that the interior now has a Ba-
ENGLISH SUMMARY
roque appearance; and in 1886 the chancel too
was renewed and raised to the same height as the
nave. In the same year the medieval tower was
heightened and furnished with a tall spire. The
rather complicated construction history is illustrated
in figs. 14a-d.
The (†)medieval church (cf. ground plan fig. 18
and fig. 14a) was a three-aisled, vaulted building
from c. 1250-75, whose ground plan corresponded
to the present nave. Attached to this late Romanesque/Early
Gothic hall, which was gathered
under one roof, there was probably an older, now
unknown chancel, which was replaced c. 1300-
50 by a Gothic †chancel which stood until 1886.
While this Gothic chancel is known from a survey
of 1881 (fig. 27a-b), the appearance of the