Gnetsch village church

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The village church Gnetsch in the town of Southern Anhalt in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld in Saxony-Anhalt is under monument protection and is registered as a monument in the monument register with registration number 094 10055 . It is the third church building in Gnetsch. The church belongs to the regional parish of Görzig and Weißandt-Gölzau in the parish of Köthen of the Evangelical Church of Anhalt .

Location and history

A church first mentioned in Gnetsch in 1275 belonged to the Archdiocese of Magdeburg . This year the patronage went to the Collegiate Foundation Coswig , and in 1275 Burgrave Otto von Wettin donated a curia to Gnetsch to the Marienkirche in Coswig . Pastors can be identified as early as the beginning of the 13th century. The Romanesque church received a new choir in 1519 and had a half-timbered tower. The former parish church later sank to the branch church of Groß-Weißandt . Church registers are preserved from 1673, church accounts from 1717. A parish chronicle has existed since 1895. The church in the cemetery behind the school was closed in 1820 because it was dilapidated.

The building manager Gottfried Bandhauer , who is involved in castle projects in Köthen , was commissioned with the new building and created a classicist central building that is considered the predecessor of the Catholic Church in Köthen, as a central building with a roof tower has already been realized here. This second church was built at the request of Duke Ferdinand in 1821 within sight of the road from Köthen to Radegast and was built on an oak grate. The foundation stone was laid on March 26, 1821, the consecration took place on December 2, 1821. Since an unsuitable building site was chosen with a former pond area, the foundations sank . The church had to be renovated in 1852 and also closed on May 24, 1908. It was decided to rebuild the church and had the old church blown up on August 25, 1908 by a division of pioneers from Magdeburg .

In the spring of 1909, the state parliament approved funding for the new building by assuming two thirds of the construction costs. As architect was Friedrich Gothe elected, who had delivered a design based on band Hauer's Church also provided for a central building with central tower. As with its predecessor, side buildings are arranged around this tower. The foundation stone for this third church, which still exists today, took place on August 15, 1909. The inauguration took place on July 14, 1910. In the early 1960s, the tower roof was changed, which meant that the church lost part of its overall effect. Presumably in 1966 the Protestant church, which was also used by Catholics, was closed. After windows were thrown in, they were removed and the openings walled up. In 1990 the gradual restoration of the windows began, which was completed in 1993. Further restoration work was carried out between 2001 and 2004. The church got a new plaster and the side buildings got new roofs. On May 28, 2005, lightning struck the church, but the damage was quickly repaired. The Dehio counts the church of Gnetsch, despite the loss of its overall effect, among the most remarkable achievements of Art Nouveau in the field of village church building in Saxony-Anhalt.

Interior and outfit

The furnishings ( pulpit altar , stalls, gallery ), which are presented in simple Art Nouveau forms , remained almost unchanged . The organ was built in 1910 by Fleischer and Kindermann (Dessau).

A bell was removed in the Second World War to be melted down for war needs, but could be rediscovered in the bell cemetery in Hamburg after the end of the war . The Dehio dates the older sugar loaf-shaped bell to the 12th, the younger to the 14th century. This bell, dating from around 1300, shows a relationship to the bells in Crüchern , Cösitz , Cörmigk , Prosigk and Reppichau .

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony Anhalt II. Administrative districts Dessau and Halle. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03065-4 .
  • Ernst Haetge / Marie-Luise Harksen: Dessau-Köthen district. First part: The city of Köthen and the district except Wörlitz (= The art monuments of the State of Anhalt ; 2.1), August Hopfer Verlag, Burg 1943.
  • Heinrich Lindner: History and description of the state of Anhalt. Dessau 1833 (Reprint: Flugkopf Verlag, Halle 1991).
  • Erhard Nestler: Christian Gottfried Heinrich Bandhauer. 1790-1837. A classicist in Anhalt. Micado Verlag, Köthen / Anhalt 1996, ISBN 3-931891-01-1 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Saxony-Anhalt (pdf, 9.9 MB) - answer of the state government to a small question for written answer (the delegates Olaf Meister and Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert; Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) - printed matter 6/3905 from March 19, 2015 (KA 6/8670)
  2. ^ Website of the church district .
  3. ↑ a b Haetge / Harksen, p. 41.
  4. ↑ A picture of the construction of the band cutter can be found on the website of the Verein für Anhaltische Landeskunde .
  5. ^ Lindner, p. 585.
  6. ^ Nestler, p. 87.
  7. ↑ a b Haetge / Harksen, p. 42.
  8. ↑ Church. gnetsch.de, accessed on September 3, 2019 .
  9. ↑ a b Dehio, p. 208.

Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 50.4 "  N , 12 ° 4 ′ 14.9"  E