St. George's Church (Struxdorf)

St. George's Church from the south

Interior facing east to the altar

The St. George's Church in Struxdorf is a late Romanesque field stone church of the parish of Struxdorf- Thumby in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .

construction

The St. George's Church was built around 1230 as the first church in the Struxdorfharde . The church consecrated to Saint George is a small, flat-roofed field stone church with a retracted box choir made of brick, the two east windows of which, however, are bricked up. The late Gothic ribbed vault of the choir was painted in the late Renaissance with depictions of the evangelists . The southern vestibule was added in 1882.

Instead of a tower, the church has a stack of bells from 1560. The church and churchyard are surrounded by a field stone wall and a wreath of linden trees, which are also under monument protection .

Furnishing

The oldest piece of equipment is the Romanesque font. Removed from the church as part of a renovation, it served as a flower pot for a long time until it returned to the church in 1970 and is placed there on a new granite base. On the north wall of the choir there is a walled-in Gothic cabinet for storing the equipment necessary for the celebration of the sacraments . The triumphal cross , which today hangs to the left of the choir arch above the old baptismal font, and the small altar cross are also pre-Reformation .

The pulpit comes from the Ringerink workshop. It was donated to the church in 1617. The reliefs of the five-sided basket depict scenes from the life of Jesus: Annunciation, Birth, Circumcision, Crucifixion and Ascension. The accompanying Bible texts are in Latin. The virtues as pilasters are colored. The donor's coat of arms shows the oak branch of the Struxdorfharde, the letters DC indicate Detlev Clementsen (1560–1621) as the founder, who was Hardesvogt from 1597 to 1618. In memory of his brother Clemens, who died in 1604, he had already commissioned a similar pulpit in the church in Fahrenstedt-Böklund .

The altar is a work by Nikolaus Heim from Schleswig from 1656. It is considered the most important example of cartilage baroque in northern Germany. The oil painting in the middle shows the Last Supper, above it is a depiction of the crucifixion as a colored relief.