Groß Möringen village church
The Evangelical village church Groß Möringen is a late Romanesque field stone church in the district Groß Möringen of the city of Stendal in Saxony-Anhalt . It belongs to the parish of Groß Möringen in the Stendal parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany and is an open church .
History and architecture
The village church of St. Leonhard Groß Möringen is a Romanesque hall church that has been preserved in a rare style and whose roof structure was dendrochronologically dated to 1171. It was first mentioned in documents in 1201 and was a pilgrimage church until the 16th century . At the beginning of the 18th century a renovation took place and some windows were enlarged. A comprehensive restoration was carried out in 1934/35, whereby the original condition of the windows was reconstructed and the roof was covered with monk-nun tiles and the interior furnishings were rearranged. Repairs were carried out on the exterior in 1973 and on the interior in 1982.
The church is a carefully executed field stone building consisting of a nave, a retracted square choir, apse and west transverse tower, which is finished with a hipped roof. The lower floor of the tower, which is closed off with a longitudinal barrel vault and has an enormous wall thickness of 4.12 meters, was originally used as a vestibule; the round-arched west portal is walled up today. The upper floor was opened to the ship via an arched opening that is now walled up and has a window opening to the south. Access from the ship was probably via a wooden staircase, of which a door with a locking bar has been preserved. Therefore, the church is viewed as a "escape church". In the bell storey there are round-arched sound openings , the southern one of which still has a brick column with a cube capital. A well-designed stepped south portal to the ship has a mighty semicircular keystone. The arched windows correspond to the original condition.
On the south side a rectangular vestibule with pinnacles and a brick gable was added in front of the priest's gate in the 15th century . The board door with wrought iron fittings comes from the 13th century.
The interior is finished with a wooden beam ceiling, the beams of which were probably painted with ornamental grisaille painting based on findings from the Baroque period. The Romanesque cornices on the triumphal arch and the stepped apse arch are preserved. The apse and the triumphal arch were painted in the style of the time around 1935.
Furnishing
Today's altar with Christ on the cross was created in 1894 by wood sculptor Gustav Kuntzsch , Wernigerode . From the former pulpit altar from 1708 come the simple wooden pulpit with carved tendrils between the fields of the polygonal basket and the coat of arms on the sound cover surrounded by acanthus leaves, as well as the Last Supper painting on the north wall of the choir and the top with the Lamb of God on the south wall.
The voluminous sandstone baptism in an octagonal cup shape comes from the second half of the 13th century. Two attractive reliefs with the adoration and the offering in the temple on the north wall of the nave come from a carved altar from around 1460/70. The organ was made by the Dinse company in 1876.
In the southern vestibule there are some gravestones of former patronage families from the 15th to 18th centuries. The oldest gravestone was set for Mette Leyden († 1439) and shows the deceased in incised drawing with a keel arch frame and inscription. The tombstone of Joachim von Mestorp († 1586) is provided with a relief figure. His wife's tombstone from the end of the 16th century is also decorated with a full figure in relief. The tombstone of Hans von Mesdorf († 1602) is also there. Finally, baroque tombstones for Hoyer von Reinhart († 1709), Dorthea Bergia († 1724) and Friedrich Hoyer von Reinhart († 1700) should be mentioned. One of several bronze bells was made around 1200. The stone wall of the churchyard is still partially preserved; on the southwest side, a brick portal from the beginning of the 16th century is placed on field stones.
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 , pp. 645–646.
- Horst Scholke: Silent Beauty. Romanesque stone churches in the Altmark. Dr. Ziethen Verlag, Oschersleben 1993, ISBN 3-928703-16-1 .
- Thomas Hartwig: All Altmark churches from A to Z . Elbe-Havel-Verlag, Havelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-9814039-5-4 , p. 329 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information Church of Groß Möringen. Retrieved April 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Thomas Hartwig: All Altmark churches from A to Z . Elbe-Havel-Verlag, Havelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-9814039-5-4 , p. 569-570 .
- ^ Soproni Múzeum, Sopron ( Hungary ), Inventory No. P. 2425 E 251 ( Storno Könyvtár): Gustav Kuntzsch folder , not paged .
Coordinates: 52 ° 35 ′ 29.5 ″ N , 11 ° 44 ′ 39.1 ″ E