St. Jürgen (pit)
The St. Jürgen Church is a brick Gothic church building in the parish village of Grube in the Ostholstein district .
history
The church was first mentioned in a document from 1232. In it a priest "Johannes de Grobe" is named as a witness of the confirmation of the Preetz Monastery by the Lübeck Bishop Johannes. According to legend, the church was donated by King Waldemar II of Denmark. The king as ruler held the church patronage until 1864. Before the Reformation , the church was dedicated to St. George .
The oldest parts of the building date from the early 13th century, but most of the current building was rebuilt around 1460. The Gothic nave with a flat wooden beam ceiling of this hall church does not have a choir, but the three typical windows in the eastern end wall, however, like the other windows of the church building, of an unusual shape. They are very large and only slightly pointed at the top, rather rounded. The unusual round windows on the north and south sides should also be mentioned.
The proportions of the church tower seem appropriate for a country church, but it was much higher until it collapsed in 1718. A comparison with the village church of Hohenkirchen on the opposite, Mecklenburg side of the Bay of Lübeck , which used to serve as a navigation mark, suggests itself ; Grube itself used to have a port on Gruber See , which was navigable and connected to the Baltic Sea via the Oldenburger Graben . The roof turret is of baroque origin. The church, the old tombs in the churchyard, the churchyard itself including the field stone enclosure and the surrounding linden tree wreath are listed as historical monuments.
Furnishing
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The carved, three-winged retable of the altar of the church was probably made in a Lübeck workshop in the late 15th century and depicts the story of the Passion . The panel paintings on the outside show scenes from the lives of Saints Gertrude, Maria, St. Jürgen and St. Katharina and are considered outstanding for Schleswig-Holstein. The stone baptism with a baptismal angel hanging over it (from 1768) is a work of the Baroque and dates from the 17th century. The church has two patronage boxes, one in the middle of the north side of the manor, the other in the altar area on the south side is the master chair of the bailiff of Cismar from 1657, which can only be reached via the sacristy of the church in the south. The organ was built in 1859 by the organ builder Marcussen from Aabenraa and is located on the horseshoe-shaped gallery on the west side. It has 2 manuals and 16 registers . Opposite the baroque pulpit from 1760 is a pastor's picture.
Johannes Stricker worked as a preacher at the church in the 16th century .
literature
- Werner Neugebauer : Beautiful Holstein , Lübeck 1957, p. 192
- Hartwig Beseler : The art monuments of Schleswig-Holstein. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1974, pp. 503-505
Web links
- Gruber St. Jürgen-Kirche on the homepage of the parish
- St. Jürgen Church on the homepage of the local parish
Coordinates: 54 ° 14 ′ 7.2 ″ N , 11 ° 1 ′ 55.1 ″ E