Twenty years after the great plague epidemic in Europe, a chapel is built in Loxstedt, approx. 1 km south of Bremerhaven on the Lower Weser. Situated on the edge of the marshes on a sandy ridge, it was founded on fieldstones, made of fired bricks and spanned by three cross vaults with rectangular profiled ribs. This is said to have been in 1374.
A magnificent treasure has been preserved inside the oldest section of the building: the medieval ceiling painting, a lime painting from the early 15th century, was discovered in 1910 during renovation work.
Unique in north-west Germany is the painting in the second vault from the west: a plague cycle from the late Middle Ages, a program of four pictorial units, the centrepiece of which is the "Loxstedt Dance of Death".
The monumental organ on the west gallery has a varied history: started around 1769 by organ builder Schreiber from Glücksstadt, continued in 1785 by Wilhelmi from Stade with a change to Schreiber's specification, finally completed in 1789 by W. Witzmann from Nesse near Loxstedt.
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