Zühlen village church

The Dorfkirche Zühlen is a Protestant church in the district of Zühlen in the town of Arendsee (Altmark) in the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel in Saxony-Anhalt . It belongs to the Stendal parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

Architecture and history

The small church building in the northeast of the village is a successor to a field stone church that burned down here in 1876 . Today's monument was built by Klitzing from Arendsee. The neo-Gothic brick building consists of a rectangular nave and a square west tower. The nave has a gable roof and there is a hipped roof on the tower . The rather simple exterior has three window groups on the long sides and round windows on the east side.

The original furnishings in the interior has remained largely intact, such as the western gallery , as a wimpergbekrönter altarpiece with crucifix .

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Arendsee (Altmark)
• List of village churches in Saxony-Anhalt

literature

• Georg Dehio (Greetings): Saxony-Anhalt I - Magdeburg district . Arranged by Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer u. a. In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , p. 1037 .

Web links

• Counting in the historical directory of the association for computer genealogy
• Information on the church district website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Saxony-Anhalt viewer of the State Office for Surveying and Geoinformation ( notes )
2. ^ ^{A b} Dehio: Saxony-Anhalt I - Magdeburg district. 2002, p. 1037.

Coordinates: 52 ° 50 ′ 46.3 "  N , 11 ° 30 ′ 33.8"  E