Engersen village church

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Engersen village church
Inside to the east
Pulpit altar

The Protestant village church Engersen is a Romanesque stone church in the Engersen district of the town of Kalbe (Milde) in the Altmark district of Salzwedel in Saxony-Anhalt . It belongs to the parish of Engersen in the parish of Estedt in the parish of Salzwedel of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany . It is a stop on the Romanesque Road .

History and architecture

The Engersen village church is a flat-roofed late Romanesque building from the years 1210/20 with a retracted choir and a transverse rectangular western building . The masonry is carefully executed; Construction professionals from France or Belgium were probably involved in the construction. An old arched portal can be seen on the south side . In the 16th century the choir was enlarged in a semicircle.

The windows of the ship were apparently enlarged in 1738 and provided with arches . Restorations took place between 1738 and 1745 and between 1877 and 2014/15.

Furnishing

The main piece of equipment is a simple pulpit altar with side passages from the first half of the 18th century, which is decorated with cheeks and a medallion frame in the auricle style. At the same time, or as early as 1690, the glazed patron's box was built into the south wall of the choir. The simple horseshoe gallery was built in the first half of the 18th century or not until 1877. In the entrance area there are box stalls in the style of the late Renaissance from the beginning of the 17th century. A neo-Romanesque organ prospect from around 1880 should also be mentioned as well as a bronze bell, which probably dates from the 17th century.

A tomb for Ludolf von Alvensleben (1652–1733) has been preserved on the north wall .

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony Anhalt I. District of Magdeburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , p. 201.

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Engersen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Thomas Hartwig: All Altmark churches from A to Z . Elbe-Havel-Verlag, Havelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-9814039-5-4 , p. 124 .
  2. ^ Marion Schmidt: On the Romanesque Road . 11th edition. Schmidt-Buch-Verlag, Wernigerode 2015, ISBN 978-3-936185-94-2 , p. 42 .
  3. ↑ a b Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments. Saxony Anhalt I. District of Magdeburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , p. 201.

Coordinates: 52 ° 37 ′ 14.2 ″  N , 11 ° 20 ′ 34 ″  E