Buchholz village church (Altmark)
The Buchholz village church is the Protestant church in the village of Buchholz in the Altmark , which belongs to the town of Stendal . It belongs to the Stendal parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
The stone church , built in Romanesque style around 1140, stands on a hill to the west of the village road, surrounded by a cemetery. A choir and apse are added to a hall building in the east and a massive transverse tower on the west side. The tower, which has cracks in its masonry, is supported from the north and west by external heavy buttresses. The bell storey, which was probably installed later, has round-arched sound openings, some of which are completely or only in the lower third walled up. The tower is crowned by a hipped roof. The windowless ground floor of the tower is neither accessible from the outside nor from the inside. In the west wall of the first upper floor of the tower, however, a walled entrance door can be seen. The locking bar device can still be seen inside on the door. Today the tower can be reached through a round arch portal from the organ gallery.
On the south side of the nave there is a round arch portal as access to the ship. There is an arched window above the gate. Further arched windows are located next to the entrance and on the north side of the nave. However, two windows in the south wall were enlarged. Originally there was also a small arched window on each side of the choir. A window to the apse was walled up and a larger one was added next to it. The original, stone-visible plaster with grooved joints can be seen under the roof of the later added bier chamber . Major repairs to the church took place in 1769 and 1817.
Renovations were carried out in 1887 and 1954, which gave the interior design its current appearance. The nave has a flat ceiling inside. The choir is separated by a mighty triumphal arch. The gallery extends over the west and north walls and dates from the 17th century. The pulpit , organ and church stalls were installed during the restoration in 1887. The oldest items in the inventory are the remarkable granite baptismal font, dating from around 1200, and a carved figure depicting the risen Christ from the end of the 15th century.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, Saxony-Anhalt I. Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 .
- Thorsten Schmidt: Left and right of the Romanesque Road. Schmidt-Buch-Verlag, Wernigerode 1994, ISBN 3-928977-24-5 , page 63.
- Horst Scholke: Silent Beauty - Romanesque field stone churches of the Altmark. Dr. Ziethen Verlag, Oschersleben 1993, ISBN 3-928703-16-1 , page 123.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '25.6 " N , 11 ° 47' 14.2" E