St. Lorenz, Lutheran chapel in Schmilau, Germany

St. Lorenz is a red brick chapel in Schmilau, built in the 13th century as a single-nave church with a straight-ended choir under one shared saddle roof. The west tower with its eight-sided bent spire, clock and bell frame was added in 1881–82, and a sacristy annex stands on the south wall. The nave has a wooden beam ceiling, the choir a ribbed vault.

St. Lorenz was built in the 13th century as a brick hall church with a nave and a straight-ended choir of equal width under one saddle roof. The round-arched windows date from a Neo-Romanesque restoration in 1880. The west tower with its clock, bell frame and eight-sided bent spire was added in 1881 and 1882, and a south annex now serves as the sacristy.

The chapel is named after Saint Lawrence of Rome and belongs to the Protestant Lutheran parish of St. Georgsberg in the Lübeck-Lauenburg church district. Its brickwork, neo-Romanesque windows and 1880s tower show how a medieval village church was adapted in the 19th century.

The chapel stands in Schmilau in the Kreis Herzogtum Lauenburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, and belongs to the parish of St. Georgsberg in the Kirchenkreis Lübeck-Lauenburg. The tower added in 1881 and 1882 holds the clock and the bell frame. The entrance is through the small round-arched doorway in the lower side wing at the front left.

The chapel is dedicated to Saint Lawrence of Rome, which explains the name St. Lorenz. Its brick walls, neo-Romanesque arched windows and the west tower with its eight-sided bent spire date from the 13th century and the restoration and tower addition of 1880–1882.