Broager Church

When we visit Broager, we always visit the church and cemetery.If you like to visit churches, you have to visit them.

The Broager Kirke is a twin-tower church in Broager, in northern Schleswig, on the Broager Land peninsula on the north side of the Flensburg Fjord in Denmark. The Evangelical Lutheran congregation of the Danish People's Church now belongs to the Diocese of Haderslev.The church was built around 1200 on the northern outskirts of the town on a 40 meter high hill. It was first mentioned in 1209, when the Bishop of Schleswig transferred income from the parish to the Rude monastery. It was probably dedicated to the Virgin Mary.The Romanesque church was built from monastery stones (Danish: munkesten) and is whitewashed, at least today. The original building consisted of an apse, choir, a nave and probably a simple tower. Around 1250, the building was extended by two transepts to form a cruciform floor plan and received the striking double tower (twin towers).
Between 1400 and 1500, Gothic rib vaults were added, partially covering the Romanesque window arches. A sacristy was added to the building around the same time. The west wall of the tower was strengthened at the end of the 19th century. The church has been covered with slate throughout since 1896. From 1924 to 1927 the church was extensively restored. Old frescoes were rediscovered and renewed. Another restoration took place in the 1990s.Visible from all sides due to its high location on one of the highest points of the Broager Land peninsula, the church used to be used from the water as a navigation mark for shipping on the Flensburg Fjord. The church has been one of the photo and postcard motifs of the region since around the beginning of the 20th century.The twin towers gained military importance in the spring of 1864 as part of the battles of the German-Danish War for the Düppeler Schanzen. The attacking Prussian troops posted a lookout on the top of the church tower to watch the artillery fire from the Prussian cannons of the Gammelmark battery south of the Vemmingbund as they shelled the Düppeler Schanzen and correct the accuracy of the gunners' hits.de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broager_Kirke