St. Michaelis (Lütjenburg)

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St. Michaelis Church, view from the market square
View of the church in the village from around 1895, drawing by Julius Fürst

The Evangelical Lutheran St. Michaelis Church is a listed church building in Lütjenburg in the Plön district ( Schleswig-Holstein ). The parish belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .

History and architecture

The first single-nave church was built by Adolf II von Schauenburg in 1156 in the Romanesque style in brick. It is the oldest brick church in the area around the Baltic Sea . The choir was extended towards the end of the 13th century. Remains of medieval ceiling paintings have been preserved above the organ gallery. The Foundation for the Preservation of Church Monuments in Germany has been carrying out extensive renovations since 2013. The roof, the truss, the facades and the base are being renovated. About 70% of the roof structure is damaged by insect and fungal infestation and is largely replaced, and missing support timbers are added. The loose material in the joints of the granite base is removed and the cavities are pressed. The church was originally under the patronage of St. Blaise and was called Michaelis Church after the Reformation .

Furnishing

  • Of the accompanying figures of the mighty late Gothic triumphal cross from the 15th century, only those of Mary and John are preserved. The missing figures were probably those of Adam and Eve, and an angel who catches the blood of Christ.
  • The valuable carved altar is a work from 1467.
  • The huge tomb of the Reventlow crypt was built in 1608 for Otto von Reventlow in the north side chapel before his death. The sandstone relief shows the Last Judgment , kneeling in front of it, as alabaster figures , the founder and his wife, and their four children. This work by the sculptor Robert Coppens from Flemings is one of the most important artworks of the late Renaissance in Schleswig-Holstein.
  • The Renaissance pulpit was built into the church in 1608.
The organ gallery with the organ
Partial view of the organ

The organ was built in 1968 by the organ builder Klaus Becker. The slider chest instrument has 29 stops on two manual works and a pedal . The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electric.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal II 08th'
2. Reed flute 08th'
3. octave 04 ′
4th Hollow flute 04 ′
5. Nasat 00 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Gemshorn 02 ′
7th third 00 01 3 ⁄ 5  ′
8th. Mixture V-VII 02 ′
9. cymbal 01'
10. bassoon 16 ′
11. Spanish trumpet 08th'
Tremulant
II threshold positive C-g 3
12. Dumped 08th'
13. Quintad 08th'
14th Principal 04 ′
15th Coupling flute 04 ′
16. octave 02 ′
17th Fifth flute 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
18th Sesquialtera II-III 00 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
19th Scharff IV 01'
20th Krummhorn 08th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
21st Sub bass 16 ′
22nd Principal 08th'
23. Gemshorn 08th'
24. Choral bass 04 ′
25th Night horn 04 ′
26th Back set IV 00 02 ′
27. trombone 16 ′
28. Trumpet 08th'
29 zinc 04 ′

Bells

In 1763 a small bell was mentioned in a document. Traditionally, the church had a ring of three bells that fell from the tower in the town fire of 1826 and were destroyed. The remaining raw material, 4,300 kg of bronze, was sold to Lübeck by the parishioners. A new triple bell could be purchased in 1836, two of which had to be handed in during the First World War for so-called war-related purposes. The bell, donated in 1924, comprised three bells, so that four bells hung in the tower from then until World War II. They were destroyed in the war and replaced by three sound steel bells in 1955. These actions were in use until 1995 and were then replaced by three bronze bells that were cast in Karlsruhe. The big bell with a weight of 1285 kg sounds with the tone e, the middle bell with the strike tone g weighs 803 kg and the small bell with the strike tone a weighs 562 kg.

literature

  • Margarete Luise Goecke-Seischab: The most beautiful churches in Germany 1000 churches and church treasures from the North Sea to Lake Constance. Anaconda Verlag, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-7306-0013-3 .
  • Walther Knoke: St. Michaelis Church in Lütjenburg ( DKV art guide , issue 680) 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-02340-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pages of the parish
  2. ^ Pages of the north church
  3. ↑ a b c Margarete Luise Goecke-Seischab: The most beautiful churches in Germany 1000 churches and church treasures from the North Sea to Lake Constance. Anaconda Verlag, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-7306-0013-3 , p. 28.
  4. ↑ oldest brick church
  5. ↑ Choir extension
  6. ↑ Ceiling painting
  7. ↑ Pages of the foundation
  8. ↑ Carved altar from 1467
  9. ↑ Margarete Luise Goecke-Seischab: The most beautiful churches in Germany 1000 churches and church treasures from the North Sea to Lake Constance. Anaconda Verlag, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-7306-0013-3 , p. 29.
  10. ↑ Renaissance pulpit
  11. ↑ Information on the organ
  12. ↑ bells

Web links

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Coordinates: 54 ° 17 '32.7 "  N , 10 ° 35' 27.9"  E