Giesenslage village church

The Protestant village church Giesenslage is a late Romanesque brick church in the Giesenslage district of Werben (Elbe) in the Stendal district in Saxony-Anhalt . It belongs to the parish Werben in the Stendal parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

History and architecture

The Giesenslage Church is a carefully executed brick building from the late 12th century, which is counted among the most artistically valuable and best preserved structures in the succession of the Jerichow Monastery . It shows the classic four-part layout of a Romanesque village church with a mighty west tower, an elongated nave of the same width and a recessed choir with a semicircular apse . Other sources date the structure to the first quarter of the 13th century.

The detailed forms are finely executed and consist of corner pilasters, a richly profiled base and the cornices with a German band and decorative triangular, diamond, console and cross-arch friezes . The apse is divided into three parts by pilaster strips ; the apse windows were restored in 1967. The other windows have been preserved unchanged and the panels show a partially preserved decorative painting.

Disturbances in the masonry prove the existence of a former sacristy extension on the north side of the choir. The south and east sides of the church are more richly decorated than the north side, where a console frieze with a German ribbon had to suffice as eaves decoration.

The church is accessed through a stepped west portal; a south portal was later walled up. The stepped southern choir portal sits in a rectangular wall projection. The bell storey and the gable of the tower apparently only date from the 14th century. A restoration was carried out in 1967. The basement of the tower has a barrel vault made of brick. Inside the wall to the ship there is a staircase to the upper floor of the tower.

Furnishing

The ancient trough-like baptismal font made of sandstone certainly dates back to the Romanesque period and was brought here from the church in Räbel. The altar consists of a brick canteen with a sepulcrum and an oak altarpiece, which was created in the 18th century. A Gothic gravestone dates from the middle of the 13th century and shows an incised drawing of a clergyman. On the outside of the church there is an inscription tombstone for Achatz Krüger († 1724). A bronze bell, cast by Radler from Hildesheim in 1902, hangs on the belfry.

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. 268.
Thomas Hartwig: All Altmark churches from A to Z . Elbe-Havel Verlag, Havelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-9814039-5-4 , p. 147 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Damian Kaufmann: The Romanesque brick village churches in the Altmark and in the Jerichower Land. Verlag Ludwig, Kiel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86935-018-9 , pp. 357-359.
↑ Thomas Hartwig: All Altmark churches from A to Z . Elbe-Havel-Verlag, Havelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-9814039-5-4 , p. 147 .

52.806388 11.955809Coordinates: 52 ° 48 '23 " N , 11 ° 57' 20.9" E

[:0-1] Damian Kaufmann: The Romanesque brick village churches in the Altmark and in the Jerichower Land. Verlag Ludwig, Kiel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86935-018-9 , pp. 357-359.

[Altmarkkirchen-2] Thomas Hartwig: All Altmark churches from A to Z . Elbe-Havel-Verlag, Havelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-9814039-5-4 , p. 147 .