The church St. Jacobi was located south of

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in the Domplatz in

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and served as the

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for the

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who lived within the Domimmunität. The church is first mentioned in 1262. The building was heavily damaged during the

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, but was rebuilt after 1535. During the

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, the building was demolished in 1812 after the rejection of an alternative proposal to demolish the cathedral and expand St. Jacobi.LWL-Commentary on Hermann Pieter Schouten's painting ''Der Domplatz in Münster'', 1783
/ref> The bells of St. Jacobi continue in use at in . According to a 1748 ground plan of the cathedral and cathedral district including St Jacobi by Schlauns, St. Jacobi was an

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, had three- bayed structure enclosed by cross-vaults with a polygonal apse (: five segments of an octagon). On the south side of the church building was a fenced area whose purpose (graveyard?) is no longer clear.

References

Bibliography

* Wilhelm Kohl: ''Das Domstift St. Paulus zu Münster.'' Berlin 1987 (Germania sacra NF 17,1), pp. 52–54. {{DEFAULTSORT:Munster, Jacobi

Jacobi Jacobi may refer to: People * Jacobi (surname), a list of people with the surname * Jacobi Boykins (born 1995), American basketball player * Jacobi Francis (born 1998), American football player * Jacobi Mitchell (born 1986), Bahamian sprinter ...

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