🏛️ St. Catherine's Church, Lübeck

St. Catherine Church in Lübeck is a Brick Gothic church which belonged to a Franciscan monastery in the name of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, seized along other property from the Catholic Church by a city ordinance drawn up by the Lutheran pastor and friend of Martin Luther, Johannes Bugenhagen, passed and implemented on May 27, 1531, as Bugenhagen had previously accomplished this in Braunschweig (on September 5, 1528, with what is considered the first Protestant church ordinance, the Braunschweiger Kirchenordnung and Hamburg, Lübeck.