St. Catherine‘s Church – Katharinenkirche in German – on Königstraße was built in 1300. It is the church of the former Franciscan abbey and the only one of three former monastery churches preserved in Lübeck. As a church of a mendicant order, it was built without a spire and it was dedicated to Saint Catherine of Alexandria. The clear and light brick building served as a Franciscan centre for the entire Baltic region. A special architectural feature is the two-story choir. Separated by a rood screen with a significant Triumphal Cross group (ca. 1450), the lower choir is located at ground level under rows of columns. The light-flooded upper choir rises above, accommodating the monks‘ choir stalls. From here, they had immediate access to their dormitories in the abbey, today‘s Katharineum.