Photolithographic print of an oil painting from the 16th century depicting saint nicholas of myra, who is worshipped here partly by men wearing turbans. In the background you can see the old st. Nicholas cemetery and the nikolai chapel outside hanover, to which a funeral procession is making its way. In the background you can see the steintor as part of hanover's former city fortifications, behind which rise the higher church towers of the market church, the aegidien church and the kreuzkirche. The smaller spires roughly in the middle of the picture still belong to the former minorite monastery, on whose site duke george would later build the leineschloss in the middle of the thirty years' war. The picture (by an as yet unidentified painter) with the (page?) number 12a comes from the book aus hannovers vorzeit (from hanover's past), published by the historian august jugler (1833-1888). A contribution to german cultural history. With 23 photolithographic illustrations, etc. And was originally printed in 1883 by the aubeldruck-anstalt, aubel & kaiser, lindenhöhe [38 b] near cologne. The digital copy shown here was uploaded to the flickr platform as part of a larger campaign by the british library (instead of directly here on commons), downloaded from there in the largest possible size, then darkened with a photo editing program using "auto contrast" and finally uploaded here. The accompanying text from the book is still missing - and may contain a reference to the original author.
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