St. Jürgen Chapel (Itzehoe)
The St. Jürgen Chapel in Itzehoe is a church building that is one of the city's cultural monuments today .
The chapel was built in the Middle Ages as the hospital church of the St. Jürgen Hospital or St. Georg Hospital, which was located on the north-eastern edge of the city at that time and served as a leper asylum . The first written mention of the hospital comes from 1303 and that of the chapel from 1462, but the date of the establishment of both institutions is not known. According to data from the Society for Leprosy, the hospital was first mentioned in 1240. In the middle of the 17th century the chapel burned down during the Danish-Swedish War ; the current building was erected in 1661.
literature
- Hugo Schünemann: The St. Juergens Chapel, a gem from the late baroque. In: Heimatverband Kreis Steinburg (ed.): Steinburger Jahrbuch 1958. Itzehoe 1957, pp. 25–45.
Individual evidence
- ^ Rudolf Irmisch : History of the City of Itzehoe , p. 108 f.
- ^ Elke Imberger, in: Itzehoe. History of a town in Schleswig-Holstein , vol. I, p. 40.
- ↑ see overview of the leprosories in Schleswig-Holstein under Archived Copy ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 55 ′ 30 " N , 9 ° 31 ′ 26.8" E