Sankt Severin
Sankt Severin stands in Keitum on Sylt, Germany, as a Lutheran parish church shaped by Romanesque architecture. Its historic roof dates to the year 1216.
The church first appears in records from 1240 and is identified as Schleswig-Holstein’s oldest religious building. Its apse has a Romanesque east window. Granite blocks, white-plastered tuff, and brick shape the nave, recessed chancel, and semicircular apse. Cross-arched and stepped friezes decorate the exterior.
Its almost square Gothic brick tower guided seafarers as a navigation mark and later held prisoners. The historic tower dates from around 1450. Inside, restored light-green panels and pews accompany a Bentheim sandstone baptismal font dating from 1230. Four carved lions support the font’s base.
A Late Gothic altarpiece, probably made by a Lübeck master around 1480, shows God the Father, the risen Christ, Mary, and Bishop Severin. The church’s large organ dates from 1999. Sankt Severin became Lutheran in 1544 after missionaries from Cologne restored and dedicated it. A local legend connects its first church with Canute the Great.
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