Kleinwulkow village church
The Protestant village church Kleinwulkow is a late Romanesque brick church in the district Kleinwulkow the community Jerichow in the Jerichower Land district in Saxony-Anhalt . It belongs to the parish Groß Wulkow in the parish Wulkow-Wust in the parish of Stendal of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
History and architecture
The village church of Kleinwulkow was built around 1200 (according to another source in the second quarter of the 13th century) on the hillside of the village as a brick building made of a nave, a retracted rectangular choir and apse and an incomplete west tower the width of a ship. The tower, which later received a half-timbered top with an octagonal pointed helmet, is equipped with a stepped round-arched west portal in a rectangular frame and with a round window above it and three pyramidal panels in the transition from the gable to the slate-covered bell storey , as in the Großwulkow village church .
The nave and the choir are decorated with corner pilasters , a console frieze and a German ribbon . The Romanesque openings on the south side (window, portal and priest door ) are walled up. The windows were widened with a basket arch in the baroque period; the original shape of the window is best recognizable by the altered southwest window of the hall. The apse is decorated with a cross-arched frieze and a German ribbon, which is impaired on the south side by flat arched windows that were subsequently broken in and are now walled up.
Inside, the choir is finished off with a groin vault over shield arches and the nave with a flat ceiling. The baroque segmented arched windows are built into wide niches. The Romanesque fighters of the triumphal arch were knocked off. The apse arch is stepped. A painting from the historicist era has faded today. The last repair took place in 1995.
The 23-year-old missionary Johann Andreas Wernicke from Kleinwulkow was one of the first in the course of the Berlin Gossner Mission in 1838 to go to India to spread the Christian faith. For health reasons, he moved to the Darjeeling highlands , where he laid the foundations for Darjeeling tea . His children were among the leading tea magnates in England.
Furnishing
A baroque baptismal angel from around 1700 was restored in 1985. The organ has a neo-Romanesque prospect from the 19th century. A baroque horseshoe gallery shapes the spatial impression in the flat-roofed nave.
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. 482.
Web links
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. 381-383.
- ↑ Information on the Kleinwulkow Church on the pages of the history circle and Marionettenbühne. Retrieved March 2, 2018 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 57.5 ″ N , 12 ° 7 ′ 17.8 ″ E