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The St. Johannis church is situated in the heart of Lüneburg and is always well worth a visit.
It is Lüneburg's oldest and largest Gothic brick church with many well worth seeing art treasures.

You want to know about for example
- the construction history of the five-nave hall church
- the architecture and its symbolic meaning
- the changeable altar from the 15. century with its carved shrine and valuable tablet paintings by Hinrik Funhof
- the famous Renaissance-/Baroque organ on which the young Johann Sebastian Bach had played
- the Gothic Mary candleholder as well as numerous Mary depictions and much more.

Do come and have the church shown and explained to you by our engaged and competent church guides. They are happy to answer your special interest questions and offer special topic guided tours (e.g. altar, organ, Mary depictions, John the Baptist, christening, church windows and so on). The duration of the guided tour can be arranged with the church guide.

Guided tours take place:
1. May - 31. October
- every Sunday after church service, ca. 11.15am
- every Saturday at 12noon

all year round
- groups need to make arrangements with the church office

Booked groups will have to pay fee of 2,- Euro per person.

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Organ guided tours

The big Renaissance-/Baroque organ from 1553/1715 is not only a special gem in St. Johannis but is also worldwide one of the most important Dutch witnesses of Renaissance organ building. The young Johann Sebastian Bach played the organ during his Lüneburg stay between 1700 and 1702.

In the course of a guided tour, which takes roughly one hour, you hear about the origin of this organ, experience the diverse, glorious acoustic colour of the individual organ stops and listen to organ music of famous North German organists, among them Georg Böhm, organist at this organ from 1698 to 1733.

Is your group has less than 15 persons you can also enter the organ loft and look the organist over the shoulder - a very special experience.

The charge for a guided tour is 100 Euro. Appointment scheduling with KMD Joachim Vogelsänger are possible under the telephone number 0 41 31/73 15 42 or by E-Mail: j.vogelsaenger@gmx.de.

Tower Brass Trumpeter
Mon - Fri: 9am
Sat: 10am

Ev.-luth. Kirchengemeinde St. Johannis
represented by the head of the church council
Dr. Harald Grürmann
Bei der St. Johanniskirche 2
21335 Lüneburg

Phone: 0 41 31/4 45 42
Fax: 0 41 31/40 48 21
Email: st.johannis@kirche-lueneburg.de

http://www.st-johanniskirche.de/

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