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On October 2, 1483, the then Bishop of Ratzeburg consecrated a chapel as the Filia of St. George's Church in Zweedorf in honor of St. Laurentius at the site of today's church. The document issued above was discovered by workers in 1863 during renovation work under the stone altar of the chapel in the ground. It was in a glass cylinder and was re-walled under the new altar in the same year with a new certificate.
As part of this work, the chapel was converted into a neo-Gothic brick church with a choir from the twelve corner. The originally free-standing wooden bell tower was replaced in 1904 by a brick tower. One of the bells in it bore the date 1591, the other still contained an Old Slavic inscription. In 1944 both bells were removed for melting and were lost in the Hamburg bell cemetery. A new bell was purchased as early as the mid-1950s.
In 1999 the roof of the tower and the nave as well as two outer pillars and the cemetery wall surrounding the churchyard were renewed with patronage funds and a grant from the municipality of Nostorf. Until 2006 there was an extensive renovation of the interior of the building, the organ (frieze organ from 1890) and the installation of an electronic bell.
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Germany? Before the beginning there was Ginnungagap, an empty space of nothingness, filled with pure creative power. (Sort of like the inside of my head.)And it ends with Ragnarok, the twilight of the Gods. In between is much fighting, betrayal and romance. Just as a good Godly story should be.Heroes have their own graveyard called Valhalla. Unfortunately we cannot show you a panorama of it at this time, nor of the lovely Valkyries who are its escort service.Hail Odin, wandering God wielding wisdom and wand! Hail Freya, hail Tyr, hail Thor!Odin made the many lakes and the fish in them. In his traverses across the lands he caused there to be the Mulheim Bridge in Cologne, as did he make the Mercury fountain, Mercury being of his nature.But it is to the mighty Thor that the Hammering Man gives service.Between the time of the Nordic old ones and that of modern Frankfort there may have been a T.Rex or two on the scene. At least some mastodons for sure came through for lunch, then fell into tar pits to become fossils for us to find.And there we must leave you, O my most pure and holy children.Text by Steve Smith.
