The Church of St. Mary
The Church of St. Mary was built as a part of the late medieval Karmeliter Monastery, which is consecrated to the Virgin Mary. The nave of the church consists of a centre aisle and two side aisles, and there are corbie stepped gables in west and east decorated with fine blind arcades. The interior includes 2 preserved galleries (a royal gallery and a rococo gallery), built around the middle of the 17th and 18th centuries, and an impressive alterpiece dating back to 1637. The church is decorated with recently restored murals from around 1480-90.
The remarkable baroque organ, on which Diederich Buxtehude played from 1660 to 1668, has been carefully restored and partly reconstructed between 1995 and 1997.
After the reformation, the church was used by the large German congregation in Elsinore until 1851, when it became one of two parish churches in Elsinore.
