St. Johann on the sand
St. Johann auf dem Sande was the first church in Lübeck to be built entirely in stone . It existed from the 12th century to the middle of the 17th century.
history
The small, simple structure with an almost rectangular floor plan was built in 1165 and was located in the immediate vicinity of Lübeck Cathedral , the cornerstone of which had been laid two years earlier, on the site of today's large building yard . The intention behind the construction of an additional church so close to the cathedral can no longer be understood with any certainty. Sometimes it is assumed that the building should serve as a temporary measure during the foreseeable long construction period of the large bishop's church ; however, it remained in use even after the cathedral was completed. Presumably St. John was planned as a baptistery , which is also supported by the patronage of John the Baptist and the location.
After the Reformation , St. Johann was no longer used as a church. From then on, the building was only used to keep beggars picked up and fell victim to neglect. In the 17th century St. Johann had become so dilapidated that on August 1st, 1648 part of the church collapsed. A rebuilding was waived; instead, the structure was completely demolished in early summer 1652.
Pictorial representations
St. Johann auf dem Sande is shown on several city panoramas, including the city view in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia and Matthäus Merian's view of Lübeck from 1641. But there are only two images, which the church is recognizably oriented towards reality and reproduced with a certain degree of detail. One can be found in Elias Diebel's Lübeck panorama picture from 1552 , where it is expressly referred to as the first church built in Lübeck (see introductory picture ).
The other illustration is an illustration for the Lübische Chronik , which the Lübeck chronicler Heinrich Rehbein wrote between 1568 and 1629. This representation is a little ahistorical when it shows Bishop Gerold , who died in 1163, in front of the church, which was only built two years later; Architecturally, however, all essential details agree with Elias Diebel's depiction, so that Rehbein's ink drawing probably conveys a picture of St. Johann auf dem Sande that is largely based on reality.
literature
- Rainer Andresen: Lübeck - history, churches, fortifications . Verlag Neue Rundschau, Lübeck.
- Monument Council of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Volume IV . Publishing house by Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1928.
Coordinates: 53 ° 51 ′ 41.5 " N , 10 ° 41 ′ 2.8" E