# St. Nikolaus

> This file is a plain-text rendition of a page on mytuur.com, generated from the same data as the HTML version.

Canonical page: https://mytuur.com/en/city/dusseldorf/spot/st-nikolaus/

Content updated: 2026-06-22

St. Nikolaus stands in Düsseldorf’s Himmelgeist district as a Roman Catholic parish church among the city’s oldest churches. Its origins reach back to the early tenth century. The present building began in the eleventh century as a late Romanesque basilica without a tower or choir house. Later additions introduced a tower, a choir house, and Gothic vaulting.

The church appears in a document from 904 as a filial church of Kaiserswerth Abbey. Its twelfth-century choir has a ribless cross vault, while the early Gothic nave carries a ribbed vault. Romanesque clerestory windows remain bricked up above the groin-vaulted side aisles. War damage and the collapse of the tower spire led to restoration completed in 1967, followed by renovation in 1974.

Franz Pauli created the stained-glass windows in 1967 and 1968. The choir contains two sacrament houses beside these coloured windows. A Johannes Klais organ from 1938 has seventeen registers across two manuals and a pedal. Orgelbau Seifert thoroughly renovated the instrument in 2022, preserving a working detail from the church’s long architectural history.

- City: [Düsseldorf](https://mytuur.com/en/city/dusseldorf/)

## Photos

- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_StNikolaus_678a5f73ebe7a333a72d614b_0.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Himmelgeist_St._Nikolaus.JPG)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_StNikolaus_678a5f73ebe7a333a72d614b_1.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:1966_St._Nikolaus_\(Düsseldorf-Himmelgeist\)_IMG5124.jpg)

Spots like this one are the stops myTuur strings into tours through Düsseldorf. In the app, each story begins where you stand: walk up to a spot and it starts, read it on screen or listen as you go, then follow the route to the next one.

## What is myTuur?

myTuur is a free city-guide app. Its tours are built from spots, and each spot carries a story that starts when you get there, to read or to listen to as you like.