Dahlen village church (Altmark)
The village church Dahlen (Altmark) is the Protestant church in the village of Dahlen , a district of Stendal in Saxony-Anhalt . It belongs to the Stendal parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
The church was built from fieldstone in the Romanesque style at the end of the 12th century . They are surrounded by a churchyard, which is surrounded by a boulder wall with two brick gates from the 16th century .
Like most medieval churches, the Dahlen village church is face to face. It consists of a slightly drawn-in rectangular choir , the nave and a transverse rectangular west tower that occupies its entire width and has a gable roof transversely to the ship's roof.
The tower can already be described as a west building or west bar . Its bell storey with the Gothic sound openings set in brick and grouped into biforias is younger than the rest of the church, possibly not erected until the beginning of the 16th century. In the plastered lower room of the tower there are several niches that indicate that this room was also originally used as a chapel or sacristy . The ground floor of the church tower has a barrel vault made of brick. At the height of the gallery there is a door that leads to a staircase to the upper floor. The stairs run inside the masonry. The tower and ship are connected at ground level by a flat arched door.
The nave and the choir were later increased by about half a meter. In the years from 1728 to 1738 the church was rebuilt and repaired. The church stalls and the wooden pulpit altar also date from this period . The windows were changed in the Baroque style. Only one window in the choir and one above the southern entrance remained in the Romanesque style. Support pillars were added to the choir. In the 19th century a west gallery and an organ were installed. At the end of the 19th century, the interior of the church was painted in stencils.
The church is accessed via two granite arched portals. At the northern entrance there is still an old locking bar lock.
A war memorial was later erected in front of the church .
literature
- Horst Scholke: Silent Beauty - Romanesque field stone churches in the Altmark . Oschersleben 1993, ISBN 3-928703-16-1 , pp. 124-125.
- v. Bednarz u. a .: Dehio - Handbook of German Art Monuments / Saxony-Anhalt Vol. 1 - Magdeburg District, September 2002, ISBN 978-3-422-03069-5 , p. 155
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Individual evidence
- ↑ see Dehio manual
Coordinates: 52 ° 33 ′ 39 ″ N , 11 ° 49 ′ 30.6 ″ E