Mortuary of the Petrikirche
The morgue of the Petrikirche was a building in Lübeck's old town . It existed from 1600 to 1942.
Location
The morgue was in the Petrikirchhof , on the corner of Große Petersgrube and Kolk .
architecture
The morgue was a simple hall construction, built in brick . Inside it had a wooden barrel vault as the ceiling construction . The gable roof was crowned by a ridge turret.
history
The morgue was built on the site of the Petrikirche workshop, which was first mentioned in 1442 and which had also served as an apartment for the sexton , the organist and the preacher . To make room for the new building, the Werkhaus was demolished from March to May 1600. To reduce construction costs, parts of the south wall, which also formed the retaining wall to the lower pool, were left standing and they were integrated into the new building.
Under the direction of Jürgen Emsingkhoff, foreman of the Petrikirche, the morgue was built from the beginning of May 1600, which was essentially completed with the completion of the roof turret on November 15 and the basic acceptance of the structure on November 18. At the end of January 1601, the lead and slate covering of the roof was completed, and in the course of the year the rest of the work was carried out, most recently the plastering of the interior walls with white lime in December 1601. This completed the morgue and was put into use.
When repairs were carried out on the pillars in the Petrikirche in 1728, the morgue was temporarily used as a church service room. In 1770 the building was extensively renovated and it was estimated to be very dilapidated .
In 1832 the morgue lost its function, as in that year the entire funeral service was relocated outside the city walls to prevent epidemics. City architect Anton Spetzler found the hall, which had become useless, to be detrimental to the appearance of the surroundings and its preservation as a burden on the construction budget. He recommended its demolition, but it was not implemented.
In 1882 the Petrikirche set up its workshop in the morgue and carried out renovations for this purpose; among other things, the interior was divided by a partition.
The morgue was destroyed in the air raid on Lübeck on March 29, 1942 . At its former location, the Lübeck construction works of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany has its headquarters in a new building (Petrikirchhof 1a).
literature
- Fritz Hirsch : The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Volume II, Part 1. Published by the Lübeck building deputation. Bernhard Nöhring publishing house, Lübeck 1906
Coordinates: 53 ° 51 '55.7 " N , 10 ° 40' 58" E