Gerwisch village church
The village church Gerwisch is the Protestant church of the village Gerwisch in Saxony-Anhalt .
History and architecture
The medieval church at Gerwisch went down together with the place in the fire of 1825. In 1837 the Royal Technical Ober-Bau-Deputation Berlin, which at that time was under the direction of Karl Friedrich Schinkel , was commissioned to plan a new church. Construction began at a new location in 1840 on a plot of land on the main street, Breiter Weg. Within a year a classical hall building with a square west tower and a semicircular closed apse was built . The tower was provided with an octagonal helmet that receded somewhat behind the width of the tower wall, while the stone masonry of the church was decorated with dividing elements made of red brick. There are crossbars on the north and south sides of the nave , the height of which corresponds to that of the nave. In its design, especially with regard to the crossbars, the church resembles the village church of Warnau (Havel) near Havelberg , which was built at the same time. The shape of the Romanesque monastery churches, for which the west bar and transept were typical, were supposed to be given by the cross bars . be included. The gables of the bars are each designed with a small round window, an oculus . On the apse and the sides of the transom there are blind slots at the level of the oculi, the attic storey . The windows in the nave and in the apse are designed as round arches. The arched areas above the windows are particularly emphasized by profiles.
Gerwisch is no longer an independent parish, the responsible parish office is in Lostau .
Interior design
The interior of the church is simple and some of it is from the construction period. The boarded roof structure is open to the nave, the choir is covered by a barrel vault. There is a gallery on the west side of the nave . This was widened when the organ was installed . The entrance to the pulpit, which originally led from the southern sacristy to the nave, was walled up.
literature
- Folkhard Cremer in Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony-Anhalt I, Magdeburg District , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 266 f.
- Dietmar Möschner, Churches in the Evangelical Church District Elbe-Fläming , editor Evangelical Church District Elbe-Fläming Burg 2003, ISBN 3-9809011 , page 29
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cremer, Dehio, page 267
Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 24.9 ″ N , 11 ° 44 ′ 50.8 ″ E