Bethlehem Collegiate Church Ludwigslust

Located just outside the train station

After H. Wilhelmini, the first monastery pastor, was appointed to his post in 1860, the Bethlehem Monastery and its employees formed their own parish.
The construction of the collegiate church made of bricks and bog iron stone, begun in 1860 by the Schwerin architect Hermann Willebrand, was inaugurated on May 1, 1864. The altarpiece was originally by Gaston Lenthe.
A redesign took place in 1938; these include two depictions of Bethlehem painted by Rudolf Schäfer.
The collegiate church, as a so-called institutional church community, is authorized to have a seal and is managed by the collegiate church advisory board, which includes representatives from the parish community, the clinic, the foundation and the northern church.
Services are held in the church every first and third Sunday. During the week, it is used by the employees and visitors of the Church Educational Center as a room for worship services. The celebrations are transmitted by a television transmission system to the screens at the patient's bedside.
In 1960 the 1914 bell was placed in a separate bell tower.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stift_Bethlehem