The Lüderan church was built 640 years ago. In the year of the Lord 1373 Propst Johann von Isenhagen vowed that he wanted to build a church in Lüder "for the price of 100 Mark Lüneburg pennies." The original of the document is still in the monastery Isenhagen.

The fact that the money for the church in Lüder came from the Monastery of Isenhagen and not from the church supply center in Bodenteich was due to the tithe law of the time. Henning and Werner von Bodendieke sold it in August 1304 to the monastery. In 1308 it went on to the Bishop Friedrich von Verden, with the condition that the monastery Isenhagen continued to receive the levies from Lüder.

The dimensions of the church as laid down in the founding document: 60 feet long, 30 feet wide and 20 feet high have been preserved over the centuries. Today we speak of 18 m long, 9 m wide and 6 m high. How the tower looked at first, you do not know. In its present form it was built around 1600.

In the Catholic period until 1531, the church belonged to the monastery of Isenhagen and was a pilgrimage church. The pilgrimages were probably related to the namesake, after the church was named: Bartholomew, who has a rolled-up skin and a knife is the patron saint of shepherds, tanners, bookbinders, glove-makers, leather workers, butchers, tailors, shoe ¬macher and Weingärtner. He was asked for intercession and help with diseases such as twitching, skin and nerve disorders.

Thanks to a confirmation donation from the year 1987 stands in the niche a small wooden statue of Bartholomew

This huge, 45 t foundling was salvaged from the canal floor in 1972 during the construction of the Elbe side canal near Lüder. With its weight and the size of 3 x 2.5 m, the stone of gray banded granite gneiss is one of the largest geological objects of its kind in Lower Saxony. Since the 1,000th anniversary of the place in 2006, he stands in front of the church in Lüder.

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