and are the remaining stone foundations of the Chapel (1415), which served as a bookshop before the Second World War. In the late 1950s, it was decided not to reconstruct it, and the remaining external walls of the ruins were cleared away. On Mengstraße, opposite the churchyard, is a building with facades from the 18th century: the clergy house known as die , which also gave its name to the courtyard that lies behind it, the . The war memorial, created in 1929 by the sculptor 1929 on behalf of the congregation of the church to commemorate their dead, is made of Swedish granite from Karlshamn. The inscription reads (in translation): Pastors Since the Reformation, St. Mary's Church has been where the top Lutheran clergyman of the city preached. Until 1796 this was the superintendent. After that, Lübeck's senior clergymen varied; three of them were pastors at St. Mary's From 1934 to 1973 St. Mary's was the church of the bishop of the . Since the establishment of the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church, St. Mary has been where the provost responsible for Lübeck has preached. Since the establishment of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany in 2012 St. Mary's has been the church of the provost for the area of Lübeck within the church district of Lübeck–Lauenburg. 1532–1548: 1553–1567: 1575–1600: 1613–1622: 1624–1643: Nicolaus Hunnius 1646–1671: 1675–1683: 1689–1698: 1702–1728: 1730–1767: Johann Gottlob Carpzov 1771–1774: 1779–1796: 1892–1909: 1914–1919: 1919–1933: 1934–1945: , bishop 1948–1955: , bishop 1956–1972: 1972–1977: , senior clergyman 1979–2001: , provost 2001–2008: Ralf Meister, provost Since 2008: Petra Kallies, provost Other famous pastors at St. Mary's were: 1614–1648: , priest from 1614, principal pastor from 1625 1626–1668: Jacob Stolterfoht, priest from 1626, principal pastor from 1649 1706–1743: , principal pastor and Polyhistor 1743–1750: , priest 1751–1759: , principal pastor 1829–1867: , principal pastor 1832–1884: 1966–1979: Once there were three generations in succession: 1713–1750: , priest from 1713, principal pastor from 1743 1757–1795: , priest from 1757, principal pastor from 1775, senior clergyman from 1788 1794–1828: , 1794 priest, from 1800 principal pastor. Music at St. Mary's Music played an important part in the life of St. Mary's as far back as the Middle Ages. The Lady Chapel (Singers' Chapel), for instance, had its own choir. After the Reformation and Johannes Bugenhagen's Church Order, the Lübeck Katharineum school choir provided the singing for religious services. In return the school