Kleinwusterwitz village church
The village church in Kleinwusterwitz is the Protestant church in Kleinwusterwitz ( Saxony-Anhalt ).
The neo-Gothic brick church in the center of the village on the village green is the landmark of the place and is a listed building .
The Prussian architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel is responsible for the current appearance of the church .
history
From the late Romanesque predecessor, a brick building in the same place, only the Romanesque sandstone baptism remained. At the beginning of the 1830s, the church was damaged so much that a new building was planned.
“The old church was
demolished from March 6th to 20th, 1838. On March 22nd, the foundation stone of the new church was laid.
At the end of October we hope to God that the whole building should be finished ... "
it says in a letter dated June 9, 1838, which was found in the tower during roofing work in 1983.
The government building officer Lücke, Berlin , developed the first draft for the church building in neo-Gothic form. The draft was edited by the Prussian secret chief building officer Karl Friedrich Schinkel and changed slightly through an expert opinion with an attached sketch. Schinkel's ideas related primarily to the design of the tower, the facades and the windows as well as the gallery and choir design inside.
The solemn inauguration of the new church took place in 1838 in the presence of Prince August of Prussia .
Description and equipment
The church consists of a rectangular nave with a square west tower in front of it, which is crowned by a retracted tented roof - originally covered with slate . The nave is divided by 4 pointed arch windows and a horizontal decorative cornice. The east gable has a door directly behind the altar and a rose window above it .
The interior is simple and is characterized by the horseshoe gallery and the wooden flat ceiling that spans the hall and is decorated with paintings. The parapet of the gallery comes in the western part - like the six-sided pulpit and parts of the altar - from the previous church. This is where the master builder's attitude towards monument preservation becomes clear: pieces of equipment from the demolished church were carefully incorporated into the new room concept.
The eight-sided baptismal font in the shape of a chalice, dated to the year 1524, can be assigned to the late Gothic period. It consists of sandstone and is formed from a hemisphere with a diameter of 82 cm, which lies on an inverted cube capital .
Parts of the carved altar from the first half of the 16th century were inserted into the neo-Gothic altar wall . The center shrine shows Anna Selbdritt , surrounded by four figures of saints that were painted over several times. The wings contain - arranged in two rows one above the other - four more saints each.
During the laying of the pavement, a medieval grave site made of molded bricks was found , which is the only completely preserved example of this type in the Elbe-Havel area. It was carefully inserted into the new brick pavement behind the altar. The inscription on the grave slab reads as follows:
"Marie von Beyren, wife of Jacob von Beyren from the Randow family, has died."
The organ with a simple prospect was built into the church in 1857 and is currently not playable.
In 2012, extensive renovation work was carried out on the facade and roof of the church. As a result, the tower was given a slate covering again, the windows and doors were redesigned and the facade was reddened with brick, which, according to restoration findings, had it at the time of construction.
Individual evidence
- ↑ E.Wernicke: "Descriptive representation of the oldest architectural and art monuments of the districts Jerichow", 1898
- ^ R. Naumann: "Romanesque brick churches in the Elbe-Havel area", Perleberg 1993
- ^ Church chronicle Kleinwusterwitz
- ^ Georg Dehio: "Handbook of German Art Monuments, District Magdeburg." Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin and Munich 2002, ISBN 3422030697
- ↑ Brochure: “Churches in the Evangelical Church District Elbe-Fläming”, edited by Dietmar Möschner, Burg 2003
Web links
- Village church Kleinwusterwitz on Stadt-Jerichow.de
- Further photos of the church: Schinkel gallery with buildings by Karl-Friedrich Schinkel
- Förderverein Schinkelkirche Kleinwusterwitz eV
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 25.5 ″ N , 12 ° 14 ′ 47.3 ″ E