SKT. NIKOLAJ KIRKE - Danmarks Kirker - Nationalmuseet

ENGLISH SUMMARY
Fig. 237. Forslag til kirkens ‘forskønnelse’ med nye kamtakkede gavle (s. 639). 1:300. Usigneret tegning af L. A.
Winstrup o. 1863 i kirken. – Proposal for an ‘anhancement’ of the church with new corbie gables.
and had gables in the east and west. The South
Chapel or St. Anne’s Chapel was built c. 1508 on
the initiative of the mayor and corporation of the
city; it stood until 1753 with a corbie gable. The
sacristy on the south side of the chancel was also
used in the early period as the city archive.
After the Reformation, on the initiative of
King Frederik II and Queen Sophie, a chapel was
built in 1575 on the north side of the nave, as the
Royal couple’s ‘private place of devotion’, giving
the church a cross shape. From this once beautifully
furnished Renaissance building comes an
inscription tablet with the Royal couple’s arms
(fig. 36). A small †charnel house built out from the
east end of the chancel stood between 1591 and
1727 and was used to store bones dug up from
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the †churchyard, which surrounded the church
and was in use until 1825. The house was built
by the Lord Lieutenant Caspar Markdanner, who
had donated the church’s large altarpiece in 1589.
The charnel house, which was erected immediately
‘behind’ the altar, must have served, with
its still-preserved stone tablet (fig. 37) with German
and Latin inscriptions, as a memento mori for
visitors to the churchyard. A stone tablet (fig. 38)
inside the church, from 1593 and with German
proverb-like sentences, was probably also set up
by Caspar Markdanner.
The Baroque church (fig. 14c). In 1753-58 the
church was totally rebuilt, so that only the †chancel
and the tower remained unchanged. Through
this rebuilding, which was in fact a renewal of