More than a hundred years ago, when the St. Michael’s pulpit was still made of wood, Hamburg residents liked to tell their visitors a story. Namely that the pulpit had washed up on the banks of the river Elbe in a storm surge. And because the people of Hamburg had liked it so much, they’d placed it in St. Michael’s. You’ve probably already guessed it: this story is pure fiction. But when you look at the pulpit from the side, you’ll notice that it actually looks like the bow of a Hanseatic cog.
Whilst the old wooden pulpit was destroyed in the 1906 fire, today’s marble pulpit was made to resemble its predecessor.
