Lostau village church
The village church Lostau is the Protestant church of the village Lostau in Saxony-Anhalt .
architecture
It stands in the Alt Lostau settlement near the Elbe and was built between 1150 and 1200 as a fortified church from quartzite rubble from the Pretzien quarries. It is a three-part staggered building, originally late Romanesque, with a wide west tower, nave and choir. The tower stands across the ship of the same width. The choir to the east was built on a square floor plan. The choir windows on the north and east sides are the only window openings in the building that still have their Romanesque design. The original main entrance to the church was on the south side. Probably in the 18th century, a simple half-timbered extension was built at this point .
Furnishing
The ceiling of the nave is flat with visible beams over which there are boards. Partly there are decorations with stencil painting . A round triumphal arch spans the entrance from the nave to the choir. On the north and east side there are galleries , the cladding of which is decorated with ovals.
The altar, pulpit and gallery date from 1650. The baptismal font from the 12th century, decorated with four lions, is probably a gift from Henry the Lion to the Margrave of Brandenburg, Albrecht the Bear . There are two sacrificial sticks in the church . The older one dates from between 1650 and 1675, the second was built around 1700. The original tower bells from 1715 were melted down during the First World War and only replaced by iron ones in 1920. Since these are now getting on in years, there are plans to replace them with bronze bells.
literature
- Folkhard Cremer in Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony-Anhalt I, Magdeburg District , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 520 f.
- Dietmar Möschner, Churches in the Evangelical Church District Elbe-Fläming , editor Evangelical Church District Elbe-Fläming, Burg 2003, ISBN 3-9809011 , page 50
Coordinates: 52 ° 12 '26.9 " N , 11 ° 43' 40.8" E