Altenplathow village church
The Altenplathow village church is the evangelical church in Altenplathow ( Saxony-Anhalt ).
history
The church is a brick building in the neo-Gothic style based on models from the brick Gothic . The architect of the building, completed in 1904, was the district building inspector Engelbrecht . The two-aisled church faces northeast, its square tower with the pointed folding roof stands on the south corner. The north-west of the main nave has a slate-covered gable roof, with a multi-sided apse attached to it. The aisle in the southeast is decorated with two decorative gables, on the facade of which Art Nouveau elements are attached. The window structure follows the galleries inside and is therefore in two rows, with the upper windows being elaborately designed with tracery . A larger-than-life copper crucifix is mounted above the main portal in the southwestern front. The interior of the nave has remained unchanged since the church was built (as of 2007). Above all, it impresses with the rich painting by the Berlin church painter Carl Busch , which is not only on the walls and gallery parapets , but also on the wooden, barrel-vaulted ceiling. There are wide galleries on the south and west walls. The organ was created by the Palatinate organ builder Haerpfer around 1890, was initially in Bitche, Lorraine and only came to the Altenplathow church in 1938. The side of the prospectus is decorated with stylized musical instruments. In the former sacristy there is a very rare Romanesque figure tombstone on which the lord of the castle Hermann von Plotho, who died in 1170, is depicted. The tomb was found in 1905 when the old church was demolished. A bronze bell cast in 1554 also belongs to the three-part chime.
Organ loft
Sanctuary
Plotho tombstone from 1170
Entrance with inscription
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Coordinates: 52 ° 25 '3.4 " N , 12 ° 8' 14.1" E