The chapel was built in 1873 in the Byzantine round-arch style, as is common in the Russian Orthodox Church. The Lübeck merchant Nikolaus Johanssen, owner of the Sophienhof estate, had …

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The gable of the Sophienhof Chapel – with the inscriptions (above) GLORY BE TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST (Luke 2:14) and (below – from left): The world passes away with its desires (1 John 2:17); TO THE WAYWAY FOR RETREAT & The Lord's word endures forever (Isaiah 40:8b)

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In 1962, the chapel became the property of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Preetz, which, like the Kiel Mennonites, uses the chapel for services approximately once a month. Below the chapel, on the opposite slope, is the Johanssen family mausoleum, later built by the son of the architect Scheele.

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