St. Johannis

The Evangelical Church of St. Johannis is a Gothic brick church in Lüchow in the district of Lüchow-Dannenberg in Lower Saxony, Germany. It belongs to the parish of St. Johannis Lüchow in the Lüchow-Dannenberg church district of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover.

The exact date of the foundation of the church cannot be determined, as documents from the Middle Ages have not survived due to fire and war, but there is a documentary mention of a provost in 1298, which is considered the oldest documented mention of the parish of St. Johannes. In 1616, the tower on the roof of St. John's Church was renovated. In addition, a first pictorial representation of the church was found in 1655, which was shown in the Merian. Fieldstone foundations, which were found during excavations in 1962, suggest the existence of a predecessor building. The current building was probably built at the beginning of the 16th century. In 1691, an extensive restoration of the building took place. In 1866, a neo-Gothic redesign of the church was carried out by Conrad Wilhelm Hase. After a fire on March 27, 1967, the interior had to be renovated. In the years 1991–1993, another redesign was carried out by the architect Dieter Langemaack.

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