St Peter's church - Painting on the wall

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Wallpainting in Krämarkapellet - The Merchant's chapel. It was built some time after 1450, by the merchants of the city, with the official name of St Jörgens chapel (St Jörgen is the Danish name for St George - who is depicted on one of the walls). The chapel has a fine set of paintings on the walls and the in the ceiling, unlike the rest of the church which is all white - the way it was painted after the Reformation. 

St Peter's church (or St Petri, as the Danish and Swedish name is) was built in the beginning of the 14th century, a Gothic church made of bricks, replacing an older, Romanesque, from the beginning of the 13th century, before Malmö was even a town and just a small village. The high altar of the Gothic church was consecrated in 1319, though work probably continued for a while longer. 

In 1529 the church was overrun by people caught up in the Reformation who caused quite a havoc, removing all traces of the Catholic faith - Malmö, under the direction of Claus Mortensen, was a stronghold for the Reformation at the time. Being buried in the church was very popular after the Reformation and after 1666 all the slots were taken in the floor, which meant that the only way to get a place was to buy an already used one - and burial plots became quite an investment. 1783 it became forbidden to sell and buy those slots - and in 1822 it became forbidden to bury people inside of churches - due to sanitation laws. In 1858 the church was renovated and almost all tombstones were buried underneath a new floor. But in a subsequent renovation, in the beginning of the 20th century, the stones were rescued from obscurity, and many placed in the Krämarkapellet to keep them protected.

Taken in: Sverige / Skåne Län / Malmö / Gamla Staden (show map)

Taken on: April 14, 2009

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