Epitaph for Johann Cothmann
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The epitaph for Johann Cothmann is in the St. Nicolai Church in Lemgo , a town in the Lippe district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It used to be attached to the outside of the western buttress of the south choir, where a copy has been hanging since the 1980s.
Johann Cothmann was the son of the Lemgo mayor Ludolf Cothmann. Johann Cothmann has been the head of St. Nikolai since 1569. From 1596 until his death in 1604 he held the office of mayor of the city.
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On the epitaph for Johann Cothmann († 1604), free-standing fluted columns under cranked beams bear the gable top with a name of the bearer and a death note in a field bordered by a curved band. The high rectangular main panel in the middle with grave evidence and praise for the dead is missing a rectangular piece in the upper left. The main panel is framed by scrollwork cheeks each with two coats of arms arranged one below the other .