Jeggau village church

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Jeggau village church

The Jeggau village church is the Protestant church in the village of Jeggau , a district of the Hanseatic city of Gardelegen in the Altmark district of Salzwedel in Saxony-Anhalt .

architecture

The building was built between 1688 and 1690 as a replacement for the previous church, which was damaged in a village fire in 1651. The church was built in half-timbered construction. The elongated nave is closed off on five sides at the eastern end. On the west side is the tower, which is also designed as a half-timbered structure. The tower, which has a square floor plan, is half-converted from the nave. The top of the tower forms an octagonal pointed helmet. After dating in the weather vane and in the southwest entrance door, the tower was built in 1742.

There are entrances on the south side of the nave. Above one is the coat of arms of the city of Gardelegen as the patronage coat of arms and an inscription with the date 1688.

The interior of the church has a flat wooden beam ceiling resting on arches . The three-aisled nave is characterized by octagonal wooden pillars. On the west side there is a three-sided gallery .

Interior

The interior is simple. It is worth mentioning a late Romanesque baptismal font designed as a chalice from the first half of the 13th century and a picture of the Virgin Mary from the late Gothic period at the end of the 15th century. The pulpit altar dates from 1824, the romanized organ was built in the last third of the 19th century.

The church has two ornate bronze bells from 1505 and 1515. In the choir there is a tombstone with an inscription from the 17th century. A chest there is from the same period.

Originally a late was in the church Medieval derived Vesperbild . However, this was given to the Catholic St. Elisabeth Church in Mieste in 1950 .

The church was last repaired between 1984 and 1993.

literature

Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 18.5 ″  N , 11 ° 12 ′ 18.8 ″  E