Lubeck Cathedral

Lubeck Cathedral is a huge brick-built Lutheran cathedral in Lubeck, Germany and part of the Lubeck World Heritage Site. It was began in 1173 via Henry the Lion as a cathedral for the Bishop of Lubeck. It turned into partly destroyed in a bombing raid in World War II, when the Arp Schnitger organ become destroyed via fire, but was ultimately reconstructed. It is likewise well-known for works of Bernt Notke and Thomas Quellinus, which survived the bombing raid in 1942. The famous altar by Hans Memling is now in Lubeck's St. Annen Museum.

The modern-day church was completed in 1982. In 1873 the Cathedral celebrated its 700th anniversary, when an offshoot of the Lutheran Memorial Beech Tree, in Steinbach close to Bad Liebenstein in Thuringia, changed into planted within the churchyard. In 1173 Henry the Lion founded the cathedral to serve the Diocese of Lubeck, after the switch in 1160 of the bishop's seat from Oldenburg in Holstein below bishop Gerold. The then Romanesque cathedral became finished around 1230, but between 1266 and 1335 it become transformed into a Gothic-fashion constructing with aspect-aisles raised to the identical top as the main aisle.