Großwulkow village church
The Protestant village church Großwulkow is a Romanesque brick church in the district Wulkow of the municipality Jerichow in the district Jerichower Land in Saxony-Anhalt . It belongs to the parish Großwulkow in the parish Wulkow-Wust in the parish of Stendal of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany . It is a stop on the Romanesque Road .
History and architecture
The Großwulkow village church is a flat-roofed brick building, which was probably built around 1180/90 (according to other sources in the first third of the 13th century). It is under the influence of the church of the Jerichow monastery and is closely related to the village church of Schönhausen (Elbe) . In contrast to these churches, however, it is not a basilica, but a hall church . It is one of the oldest village churches in the Jerichow area.
The core structure, consisting of a nave and a recessed rectangular choir, was supplemented in the west by a wider two-storey west building with a transverse rectangular floor plan and an apse in the east. A half-walled window can be seen at the connection to the tower. This finding is explained by a partial collapse and less by a change of plan or an intentional shortening. It is possible that the west building is at least partially to be regarded as a new building from the Baroque period. On the nave there are decorations with a cross-arch frieze and a German ribbon , while the other components are structured with corner pilasters.
Several Romanesque windows, the arched priest's gate at the choir and the stepped, arched west portal with a rectangular frame have been preserved. Some windows were probably enlarged in the 17th century. The tower was raised in 1686 by a half-timbered tower, which was restored in 1782/83. When a buttress was added to the apse, the eastern window was walled up. Cracks in the apse also indicate settlement damage . A restoration took place between 1992 and 1994.
Furnishing
The church is dominated by a Romanesque wooden crucifix from a triumphal cross group from the construction time 1180/90, which was probably revised and supplemented in the 15th century and placed in the original place in the triumphal arch in 1993 . Similar to the little later triumphal crucifix in the Schönhausen village church, it shows the style level of the triumphal cross before the one in Halberstadt Cathedral . A Romanesque hemispherical baptismal font with a round shaft and round rod structure from the original furnishings of the church has also been preserved. A Romanesque altar plate with consecration crosses and sepulcrum should also be mentioned.
The rest of the furnishings, like the tower top, probably date from the 17th century. It consists of an altar wall with a pulpit and side passages adorned with tendrils and galleries in the north and west. The three-sided pulpit cage is structured with corner columns, the corresponding eight-sided sound cover with canopy rests on twisted columns.
A neo-Romanesque organ prospect comes from the end of the 19th century. One of the earliest surviving bells made using wax thread technology from the beginning of the 13th century serves as the bell.
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. 298-299.
Web links
- Website of the Jerichow parish area
- Website of the history circle and marionette stage
- The village church Großwulkow in 67 pictures
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. 368-371.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '0 " N , 12 ° 7' 23.4" E