Redekin village church
The Protestant village church Redekin is a Romanesque brick church in the Redekin district of Jerichow in the Jerichower Land district in Saxony-Anhalt . It belongs to the parish Redekin in the parish Jerichow in the parish of Stendal of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany . It is a stop on the Romanesque Road .
History and architecture
The Redekin village church is a stately, carefully executed brick building, which consists of a flat-roofed nave, a retracted, cross-vaulted rectangular choir and a semicircular apse as well as a wider transverse rectangular west building from around 1200 (according to another source from the first quarter of the 13th century) . It is under the influence of the church of the Jerichow monastery and is closely related to the village church of Schönhausen . In contrast to these churches, however, it is not a basilica, but a hall church and is considered a prime example of a four-part Romanesque village church.
The exterior is richly structured by pilaster strips , a German band, and round and cross-arch friezes ; There are also pointed arch friezes on the ship. The choir walls show a horizontal band below the windows; in the south there is a round arched stepped priest gate . There are also incised sundials on the south wall of the choir .
The arched portals on the ship are walled up, but the high windows have been preserved in their original form. In the west building there is an elaborate round arched step portal in a rectangular wall template, above which two oculi are arranged. The bell storey is provided with three coupled sound openings to the east and to the west and with one each to the north and south. The west building is covered with a hipped roof, on which an octagonal lantern, removed in 1974/75, was placed as a crown. A barrel-vaulted sacristy, which was later used as a crypt, was preserved on the north side. According to another source, an emergence is postulated together with the rest of the building. There is a sacrament niche in the apse . In the southeast of the ship there was originally a hagioscope .
Furnishing
The main piece of equipment is a late Gothic carved altar shrine from the second half of the 15th century. It shows a Madonna between adoring angels and four saints in two rows one above the other. A crucifix with a corpus from 1230 is used as a crown . The baptismal font consists of a Romanesque bowl and a younger shaft, which was revised in 1908 in Renaissance forms. A palmette frieze is attached to the dome and fittings are attached to the cylindrical shaft . There is also a small bronze crucifix on a cross from the mid-12th century that was once decorated with semi-precious stones.
The rest of the furnishings come for the most part from the Baroque period . It consists of a horseshoe-shaped gallery with a graceful rococo organ by Johann Wilhelm Grüneberg from 1785, the stalls and the pulpit. The stalls are inscribed and dated to the year 1652/53. The pulpit on a baluster support is decorated with rustic tendril carvings and probably dates from around 1700. A figure grave stone for Caspar von Randow († 1581) should also be mentioned. Two metal epitaphs for Rudolf von Alvensleben († 1866) and for Ferdinand Gebhard Carl Eduard von Alvensleben († 1876) have also been preserved. Two late medieval bronze bells from 1459 and 1471 serve as the bells. Johann Friedrich von Alvensleben (1736–1819) and his wife, the well-known former actress Friederike Caroline Döbbelin , were buried in the churchyard .
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 , pp. 770–771.
Web links
- 21. Redekin - village church (12th century) on the Romanesque Road
- Redekin parish website
- The Redekin village church in 118 photos
- Romanesque routes in Berlin and Brandenburg - Redekin village church
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c 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. 415-419.
- ↑ Website about the village church of Redekin. Retrieved July 19, 2017 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '59.9 " N , 12 ° 4' 31.5" E