Düsedau village church
The village church Düsedau is the Protestant church of the village Düsedau in the Altmark in Saxony-Anhalt . It belongs to the Stendal parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
The construction of the building is dated to the end of the 12th century . The tower of the Romanesque church made of field stones still dates from this time . A former non-Christian cult site was probably chosen as the building site, which was at the highest point in the village.
The upper part of the tower on the west side is a little younger, recognizable by the other, small-scale masonry. The sound openings are located in niches, some of which are round-arched, some of which are ogival.
A fundamental renovation of the church took place in 1869. The nave and apse date from this period. A special feature of this apse is the fact that it does not have an Easter window. However, this was probably present in an earlier, rectangular apse. At the same time, the building also received the gable roof and today's west portal. The passage from the tower to the ship was narrowed during the renovation work.
The church once had a roof turret, which can still be seen in old pictures. Due to the desolate condition of the wooden structure, it was dismantled in the post-war period, but the base is still in the top of the tower.
Bells
In contrast to other churches in the Altmark , the Düsedauer Church still has its full bell, consisting of 3 bells.
The smallest bell was cast in 1580, the exact date of the middle and large bells cannot be determined. It is assumed that both were cast around the turn of the 13th to the 14th century (rough estimates give the years 1280 and 1320).
Two of these bells (the middle one and the small one) were supposed to be melted down during World War II and were brought to Hamburg for this purpose . After the war, the bells were found undamaged and returned to their places in the Düsedauer Church in 1950.
The fact that Düsedau has such extensive bells is probably due to the fact that a court for Provost Seeger, the highest clergyman of the Stendal Cathedral monastery, is on record in Düsedau for 1327. Provost Seeger was both margravial chaplain and pronotary, which means that the place was indirectly connected to the margravial government.
In 2015 the old bell chair was renovated with donations and subsidies. Thereby the manual operation was switched to mechanical bell systems.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Sommer. ndRom: The nozzle duration bells, 03/2013
- ↑ An ambitious construction project can begin ( memento of the original from December 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. People's vote from May 23, 2015
literature
- Horst Scholke, Stille Schönheit - Romanische Feldsteinkirchen in der Altmark , Oschersleben 1993, ISBN 3-928703-16-1 , p. 127.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 45 ′ 50.3 " N , 11 ° 47 ′ 46.7" E