St. Laurentii, Itzehoe

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St. Laurentii
Stadtkirche St. Laurentii
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St. Laurentii
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St. Laurentii
53°55′24.77″N9°31′5.60″E / 53.9235472°N 9.5182222°E / 53.9235472; 9.5182222
Location Itzehoe, Schleswig-Holstein
CountryGermany
Denomination Lutheran
Website www.kirche-itzehoe.de/isg/kirchen/st-laurentii/
Architecture
Architectural type hall church
Style Baroque
Completed1718 (1718)
Administration
Synod Northern Church

The church St. Laurentii is the parish church of a Lutheran congregation in the centre of Itzehoe, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The full name is Stadtkirche St. Laurentii (town church of Lawrence of Rome). Completed in 1718, it is the town's largest religious building. It serves as a parish church and as a concert venue.[ citation needed ]

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History

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The medieval cloisters

A church dedicated to St. Laurentius was first mentioned in a document from 1196. [1] It was a Gothic hall church with two naves, which was destroyed when the town burnt in 1657 due to the Second Northern War. The church was rebuilt only provisionally. The cloisters survived and are the only medieval building left in Itzehoe.

The present church was built from 1716 to 1718 in Baroque style. [1] The tower was first only slightly higher than the church. The present tower was built from 1894 to 1896 after designs by Johannes Otzen. It is 79.45 metres (260.7 ft) high, crowned with an onion dome and four corner towers, and was equipped with a viewing platform. The tower was severely damaged by a storm on 8 January 2002. The restoration was completed in 2005. [2]

Below the church, ladies (Stiftsdamen) of the Itzehoe Monastery and members of the noble family of Rantzau were buried in metal sarcophages, including: [3]

Furnishing

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The altar

Most pieces date back to the time between the burning and the new church, including an altar from the workshop of Hein Baxmann  [ de ], a wood carver from Hamburg who created 24 biblical scenes, and the chancel, which was until 1962 in the centre of a rood screen. [1]

Church music

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The organ in 2016
Detail: coat of arms of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg Schleswig-Holstein, Itzehoe, Laurentii-Kirche NIK 2643.jpg
Detail: coat of arms of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg

The organ was begun in 1715 by Arp Schnitger. [1] After his death in 1719, his pupil Lambert Daniel Kastens  [ de ] completed the work. The Schnitger organ was replaced in 1905 by an instrument built by Wilhelm Sauer who retained the case (Prospekt). Franz Grollmann rebuilt and expanded the organ in 1976. [4] The church is a venue of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and other concerts. [5]

Literature

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "St. Laurentius" (in German). Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
  2. ↑ Turmbesichtigung
  3. ↑ "Seltener Arbeitsplatz in der Krypta". Norddeutsche Rundschau (in German). 3 March 2010. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
  4. ↑ "Itzehoe / St. Laurentii, luth" (in German). orgel-owl.de. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
  5. ↑ "Itzehoe / St. Laurentii-Kirche". Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. Archived from the original on 19 April 2017. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
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