page_title: St. Mary's Church, Lübeck
section_title: Churchyard
hierarchical_section_title: St. Mary's Church, Lübeck / Churchyard
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Ein Besuchermagnet an der Marienkirche in Lübeck. Beachtenswert sind die Abriebstellen an der Skulptur von Rolf Goerler aus dem Jahre 1999.
context_page_description: St. Mary's Church in Lübeck was built between 1250 and 1350. It has always been a symbol of the power and prosperity of the old Hanseatic city, and is situated at the highest point of the island that forms the old town of Lübeck. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the old Hanseatic City of Lübeck.
  St. Mary's epitomizes north German Brick Gothic and set the standard for about 70 other churches in the Baltic region, making it a building of enormous architectural significance. St Mary's Church embodied the towering style of Gothic architecture style using north German brick. It has the tallest brick vault in the world, the height of the central nave being 38.5 metres.
  It is built as a three-aisled basilica with side chapels, an ambulatory with radiating chapels, and vestibules like the arms of a transept. The westwork has a monumental two-tower façade. The height of the towers, including the weather vanes, is 124.95 metres and 124.75 metres, respectively.
  St. Mary's is located in the Hanseatic merchants' quarter, which extends uphill from the warehouses on the River Trave to the church.
context_section_description: Saint Mary's Churchyard, with its views of the north face of the Lübeck Town Hall, the Kanzleigebäude, and the Marienwerkhaus has the ambiance of a mediaeval town.
  The architectural features include the subjects of Lübeck legends; a large block of granite to the right of the entrance was supposedly not left there by the builders but put there by the Devil.
  To the north and west of the church, the courtyard is now an open space, mediaeval buildings having been removed.
  At the corner between Schüsselbuden and Mengstraße are the remaining stone foundations of the Maria am Stegel Chapel (1415), which served as a bookshop before the Second World War.
  In the late 1950s, it was decided not to reconstruct it, and the remaining external walls of the ruins were cleared away.
  On Mengstraße, opposite the churchyard, is a building with facades from the 18th century: the clergy house known as die Wehde, which also gave its name to the courtyard that lies behind it, the Wehdehof.
  The war memorial, created in 1929 by the sculptor Hermann Joachim Pagels 1929 on behalf of the congregation of the church to commemorate their dead, is made of Swedish granite from Karlshamn.
  The inscription reads (in translation):
caption: The Devil at St. Mary's Church in Lübeck, sculpture by Rolf Goerler, 1999
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