Infirmary (Klein Grönau)
The infirmary and the associated chapel in zu Lübeck-St. Jürgen owned Klein Grönau now serve as a youth home and for devotions.
Infirmary
The infirmary was built to care for leprosy sufferers and is first documented towards the end of the 13th century. From 1423 the foundation was administered from Lübeck . In 1479/80 the house was rebuilt from the estate of the Lübeck mayor Andreas Geverdes . It is a single-storey brick building, 26.5 m long and 11.4 m deep, which has been preserved in its basic features to this day, and is divided into two halves by a central transverse wall, the southern half of which was intended for men and the northern one for women. The house rules issued at the same time provided for six men and six women to be accommodated in the two halves of the house. Later the house was used as a poor house , also for six men and six women. In 1787 the interior of the house was renovated; In 1844 it got a new roof. Three inscription panels remind of the beginning and completion of the building in 1479/80 as well as the renovation of 1787. The infirmary received income from the lease income from the Klein Grönau homestead belonging to the infirmary and from the interest on capital. For a long time the administration was connected to the Westerauer Foundation. The foundation's overseers were the two oldest Lübeck mayors and the two elders of the office of the dressmaker . In 1843 , 37 people were registered on the 3- hectare facility, which is almost completely enclosed by the Groß Grönau municipality in Lauenburg .
In 1958 the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck acquired the ensemble of infirmary, chapel and administrator's house. Today there is a youth home operated by CVJM Lübeck in the infirmary.
The entire complex, which also includes the cemetery around the church, has largely been preserved, albeit impaired by the routing of the former federal road 207 , which has been state road 331 since 2007.
chapel
The chapel was built by an inscription near the entrance in 1409 and on the Sunday before St. John the patronage of the Holy Cross , the Virgin Mary , the Five Wounds , of Sts. Servatius , Antonius , Georg , Markus , Katharina , Margaretha and Walburga as well as All Souls ' Day and All Saints' Day are consecrated. The name "St.-Jürgen-Kapelle" was used for the Klein-Grönau way chapel.
It is 6.30 m wide and 9.10 m long and has a rectangular floor plan with a 3/8 apse ending. In 1659 the chapel was renewed, whereby it received its current roof turret. In 1841 the floor was renewed. Structurally closely related is the chapel of the infirmary in front of Dassow, which was blown up in January 1973 because of its proximity to the inner German border .
Until the early 20th century, Holy Mass was celebrated in the chapel once a week , which was held by the pastor of Groß Grönau . After the infirmary and chapel were taken over by the Lübeck church, the chapel was renovated in 1963 and received a wooden ceiling and new chairs. Since then, a prayer service has been held in the chapel every Sunday from Whitsun to Thanksgiving , mostly in Low German .
Furnishing
On the east wall of the chapel there is a brick altar table with a 2.10 × 1.18 m cafeteria . A Gothic retable stood on it until 1709 , remains of which have been preserved, which came to the St. Anne's Museum in 1912 . In 1709 the chapel received the former high altar retable of the Lübeck Aegidienkirche, which was actually much too large for the chapel . This high-Gothic winged altar, now called the Grönau Altar, from a Flemish workshop, to which art history gave the emergency name Master of the Grönau Altar , from around 1430, also came to the St. Annen Museum in 1912.
A fragmentary late Gothic wall cupboard on the north side forms the framework for a late Gothic Pietà from around 1500.
In 1641 the “man choir” was built as a gallery . The former predella of the Grönau altar is attached to its parapet , which is slightly younger than this (end of the 15th century). Below the pulpit is the only preserved medieval holy water font in the Lübeck area . The baroque wooden baptismal font dates from 1722. A wall sconce from 1670 is now in the St. Annen Museum. The bell in the roof turret with a diameter of 53 cm was cast by Kordt Kleimann in Lübeck in 1659.
Since 1963 the altar has been adorned with a crucifix by Rudolf Klahn from Celle, which the Professor Brockhaus Foundation of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities had acquired for the chapel.
literature
- Uwe Albrecht , Ulrike Nürnberger, Jan Friedrich Richter , Jörg Rosenfeld, Christiane Saumweber: Corpus of medieval wood sculpture and panel painting in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume II: Hanseatic City of Lübeck, The Works in the City Area. Ludwig, Kiel 2012, ISBN 978-3-933598-76-9 .
- Johannes Baltzer et al. (Author), Monument Council (ed.): Lübeck. The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Volume 4: The Monasteries. The town's smaller churches. The churches and chapels in the outskirts. Thought and way crosses and the Passion of Christ. Verlag für Kunstreprod., Neustadt an der Aisch 2001, ISBN 3-89557-168-7 , pp. 494–507. (Unchanged reprint of the edition: Verlag von Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1928)
Web links
- The chapel and the “infirmary” of Klein Grönau
- Joachim Siemers: 40 years of re-inauguration
- Brief mention of the infirmary in Klein Grönau in the data of the Society for Leprosy; Directory of all medieval leprosories in Schleswig-Holstein
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Friedrich Kratzsch: Complete topographical-judicial handbook of the entire German federal states. Volume 1, Naumbuirg: E. Zimmermann, 1843, p. 367.
Coordinates: 53 ° 48 ′ 33 " N , 10 ° 44 ′ 53.6" E