Maria Magdalenen Church (Lauenburg / Elbe)
The Maria Magdalenen Church is the Evangelical Lutheran town church of Lauenburg / Elbe , consecrated to Maria Magdalena . The church is a founding in the early 13th century. From 1564 to 1705 the pastorate at the church was associated with the Lutheran superintendent or general superintendent of Lower Saxony of the Saxony-Lauenburg regional church .
Building history
The oldest visible component is the Gothic nave from around 1300, built from field stone in the lower area of the building and further up from brick . Today's brick choir , however, dates from 1827. Even younger is the church tower , which was built in 1902 as part of a Reconstruction in the neo-Gothic style was created. Since 1992, the tower has been wearing a copper spire again, which was destroyed at the end of the Second World War by heavy artillery shelling by the English troops. From a distance he gives the city and the church a deceptive neo-Gothic character.
The oldest reference to the activities of Lutheran preachers in Saxony-Lauenburg is an inscription on the north portal of the church, which commemorates the first Lutheran sermon on St. John's Day in 1531. The sandstone south portal dates back to 1598, as is the north portal. There are extensions on the north side of the nave and on the south side of the choir. This northern extension is most likely the origin of the entire church, as cross vaults are still present here, both in the basement and on the ground floor. The upper floor was used by the ducal family to access the ducal stalls on the north gallery. Next to the south portal is the granite pillory stone on which church sinners were chained.
Furnishing
The interior of the church was changed in 1827 through a thorough renovation so that only the existing furnishings can give an original impression.
Are to be emphasized
- the Gothic fifth made of bronze from 1466,
- the late Gothic crucifix (around 1500),
- the late Gothic panel painting Lust der Welt (1470–1480) shows a couple from the upper class on one side, and the skeletons of the two on the other in order to question earthly joys.
- The epitaph Weltzin († 1590) probably comes from the Flemish sculptor Robert Coppens, who worked in Northern Germany .
A remarkable detail of the furnishings is the late Gothic Mary chandelier made of wood and iron with the double-sided statue of a radiant Madonna. The kneeling grave figures of Duke Franz II of Saxony-Lauenburg and Maria, his last wife, remind of the time of Lauenburg as a royal seat . The tomb of the dukes also comes from the workshop of Coppens. Under the choir, there are coffins made of copper or tin for members of the Ascanian ruling house in the dukes' crypt. Some of the coffins were removed in the last years of the 20th century as they were destroyed by the tin plague.
The vestibule of the nave is set up as a war memorial , wooden panels bear the names of the people who fell from Lauenburg in the German Wars of Liberation in 1813, from the battles of 1870/1871 and on the fronts of the First and Second World Wars .
The organ was built in 1961 by the organ builder Emanuel Kemper & Sohn in an existing historical baroque case from 1625. The slider chest instrument has 33 stops on three manuals and a pedal. The playing and stop actions are mechanical.
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- Coupling : I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Effect register: Zimbelstern and Cymbelstern
Pastors
The Church's pastors included:
- Severin Walther Slüter , pastor and general superintendent from 1684 to 1697
- Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Catenhusen , deacon (2nd pastor) from 1816 to 1831
- Wilhelm Heinrich Koopmann , pastor from 1845 to 1854
literature
- Hartwig Beseler: Art-Topography Schleswig-Holstein. Neumünster 1974
Individual evidence
Web links
Coordinates: 53 ° 22 ′ 14.7 " N , 10 ° 33 ′ 12" E