67 2 Schlosskapelle Stettin, Pommern (heute Polen) Chapel in Stettin/Szczecin Castle, Pomerania (today Poland) direction where one might have expected the altar to have been located, and is also set higher than the altar actually is. Moritz, Johann Friedrich’s successor as elector, sat in the first story at the east end of the church, confirming that this seemingly unusual location was intended. In turn the Electress sat in the second story of the east end of the tribune. Pews for princes and princesses were originally located on the north and south side, respectively of the chapel, while the chamberlain sat opposite the pulpit on the first story.8 The adoption of the tribunes, open space, and also, at times, vaulting comparable to Torgau in many court chapels built for Lutheran princes from the 1550s has been seen as a result of its influence.9 Among them are the chapels at Augustusburg in Saxony (p. 88, fig. 11), Schwerin in Mecklenburg (p. 89, fig. 12), Schloss Wilhelmsburg in Schmalkalden, Hesse (today Thuringia) (fig. 1), and in the Schloss at Stettin/Szczecin, Pomerania (today Poland) (fig. 2). The organization of the Torgau chapel served moreover as the model for the castle church of a monarch: it provided a prototype for the king of Denmark, Christian IV., in his palace of Frederiksborg (p. 90, fig. 13), and thence for new churches built in what was at the time Danish Scania (now Sweden, for example Kristianstad). The legacy of Torgau may be taken two ways. Scholars have often written about its theological and liturgical aspects, as remarked. The basic idea
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