Luther Church (Loitz)
The Luther Church is a church building in Loitz in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district . It belongs to the parish of St. Marien Loitz of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District .
The building goes back to the hospital chapel of the St. Jürgen or Georgen hospital located northeast of the city in the Middle Ages . The chapel is shown on the Loitz vedute at the edge of the Lubin map with a pointed tower. The Dowager Duchess Sophie Hedwig had the building rebuilt as a cemetery chapel in 1619 . The previous cemetery of the hospital has now been used as a municipal cemetery. The arched renaissance portal dates from this time .
During the occupation of Swedish Pomerania by Napoleonic troops in 1807, the chapel served as a powder magazine. It was then used as a warehouse and morgue until it was repaired as a church in 1857. On the occasion of a renovation that was required in 1953, it was given the name Luther Church. It is used by the parish as a winter church.
On the south wall of the church are the grave slabs of the royal Swedish governor of Loitz, Michael Christian Schulemann (1668-1724), and the regiment pastor and assessor of the war council, Christian Friderici († 1709), attached.
Web links
- Luther Church. Evangelical Church Congregation St. Marien Loitz, accessed on May 5, 2012 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 58 '29.4 " N , 13 ° 7' 59.6" E