Neuenklitsche village church
The village church in Neuenklitsche is the Protestant church in Neuenklitsche ( Saxony-Anhalt ). The late Romanesque brick church is at the entrance of Kleinwusterwitz , in the southern part of the village and is the landmark of the place.
history
The listed church was built in the years 1371-1375, which is indicated by a two-line inscription, which was carved into the 9th ceiling beam in Gothic italics. The previous building, built by monks from Jerichow Monastery between 1150 and 1180, stood on the same site and was destroyed by fire.
In the 17th century the church was rebuilt and underwent fundamental Gothic changes. The particularly simple furnishings also date from this time.
The church tower, whose half-timbering in the upper interior of the tower was renewed after a fire from 1902 to 1904, is built in the neo-Gothic style.
Description and equipment
The exposed brick building with a ship-wide west transverse tower and drawn-in rectangular choir is a typical representative of the brick churches in the Elbe-Havel area. The facade is adorned and structured by corner pilasters , triangular, angular and toothed friezes and the visible walled-in arches and openings on the long sides indicate numerous changes from the renovation period in the 17th century. On the outer walls of the choir and hall you can find medieval armor holes, two Ritz sundials in the south-east and north with a diameter of 14 cm and numerous, deeply carved grooves and bowls on the south and east side.
The west portal of the church, with its fourfold gradation, shows the richest formation of all Romanesque brick churches in the area with an overlaid blind arch, the field of which contains patterns laid in mosaic form. The portal and the two arched windows in the western part of the nave are the openings preserved from the Romanesque building in their original state. In the east wall of the choir there is a slender, pointed arch group of three windows that can be assigned to the Gothic .
The roof structure is essentially still in its original state and, according to the monument protection authority, can only be found three times in Europe.
The interior is kept simple. An L-shaped gallery extends over the west and north sides of the nave. In 1902, parallel to the renovation work on the tower, the medieval beams in the nave were covered with a coffered ceiling. Only in the choir area is the beam position still clearly visible in the original construction.
Only the Romanesque sandstone baptism , a hemisphere with a diameter of 82 cm on an inverted cube capital , remained from the furnishings of the previous building.
In the choir, on the north and south walls , there are patronage stalls , which were reserved for the landlords during the services. In this area, three well-preserved epitaphs from family members of the patron saints von Neuenklitsche, Hans Christoff von Katte and his sons Joachim Ernst on the north side and Joachim Ehrentreich von Katte next to the pulpit on the south side are worked into the walls.
The organ from the workshop of the Altmark organ builder Voigt, built between 1860 and 1880, was destroyed in 1945 and renewed in 1960. The neo-Romanesque organ prospectus was retained. In the early 1980s, the organ had to be removed from the church due to the poor structural situation of the building and was housed in the winter church of St. Trinity in Genthin . The organ returned to its place in 1996 - after the roof covering could be renewed in 1992 - and is now playable again after cleaning and reworking.
Of the originally two bells, only one is still in the tower. The second bell was lost during the Second World War . The bronze bell comes from the bell founder Simon Kolle from Brandenburg and dates to the year 1661. The inscription quotes verse 22 of the first James letter:
“BUT BE THAT THAT THE WORD AND DO NOT LISTEN TO ALONE, SO THAT YOU MIND YOURSELF. JACOBI AM I SIMON KOLLE IN BRANDENBURG GOS ME ANNO CHRISTI 1661. "
The bell bears the family crests of Melcher Katte and Ursula von Thümen on one side and Hans Christoff Katte and Maria Eleonora Schlabrendorf on the other.
In 2003 the unique roof structure was secured by an auxiliary construction and the interior (walls and ceilings) was subjected to a comprehensive overhaul.
View from the north
South wall of the nave with angled frieze below the eaves
North wall of the nave with modified openings
Interior - view from the gallery
Interior - view from the choir room
Romanesque sandstone baptism
Epitaphs Hans Christoff Katte and Joachim Ernst Katte
Epitaph Joachim Ehrentreich von Katte
Bronze bell from 1661 with the family coat of arms of the founders Melcher Katte and Ursula von Thümen
Individual evidence
- ↑ E.Wernicke: "Descriptive representation of the oldest architectural and art monuments of the districts Jerichow", 1898
- ^ Georg Dehio Handbook of German Art Monuments : Saxony-Anhalt I - Magdeburg District. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin and Munich 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7
- ↑ Brochure: Churches in the Evangelical Church District Elbe-Fläming. edited by Dietmar Möschner, Burg 2003
- ^ R. Naumann: Romanesque brick churches in the Elbe-Havel area. Perleberg 1993
Web links
- Neuenklitsche village church on Stadt-Jerichow.de
Coordinates: 52 ° 28 '47.2 " N , 12 ° 14' 3.6" E