Zabakuck village church
The village church in Zabakuck is the Protestant church in Zabakuck in Saxony-Anhalt . It is located on the village green in the center of the village.
From the 19th century church only the tower and outer walls of the nave are preserved.
history
The predecessor of the current church - a brick church covered with wooden shingles - burned down in October 1793. The construction of the church began in 1801. The outer walls, church and tower could be completed by 1805, while the interior work on the church began later and lasted from 1815 to 1817. The church was consecrated on the day of the Reformation in 1817.
During World War II , the church was badly damaged by grenade strikes and fighting. Only makeshift repairs were carried out in the early 1950s, but they could not stop the building from falling into disrepair. In 1954 two rooms were expanded in the western part of the church. From 1964, the service took place in the rectory opposite, so the church was no longer used. At Pentecost 1973, a third of the church roof collapsed as a result of the continuing deterioration and in June 1980 another third collapsed. The last third was removed in 1983 because of the risk of collapse. The remaining rubble was removed from the church in 1992.
In 1995, a room for church services was built in the basement of the tower. In 1999 the outer walls of the nave were secured by installing a ring anchor and a room for Christian teaching was set up in the upper part of the tower. Access is via a newly built wooden gallery directly from the nave. The new inauguration took place on August 21, 1999 with an open-air service in the nave.
Description and equipment
The plastered brick church with a rectangular nave has a square west tower with a tail roof and an open lantern supported at the corners . The spire, which was initially tapered three times, was changed during restoration work in 1956 and today has a helmet-like structure. The annex on the east side of the church houses a mausoleum with the crypt of the von Byern family .
The interior of the church was kept very simple. On the east side was a wooden pulpit altar , to the right and left of it the patronage boxes of the von Byern family. The organ was donated in 1825 by the Rector Bergins from Genthin . The tower clock was installed in the years 1835-1840.
Originally there were three bells in the tower. The smaller bronze bell comes from Magdeburg and dates to the year 1816. The community got the other two bells in 1823 from King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia . given. They come from the royal iron foundry in Berlin .
The most remarkable piece of furniture in the church was a marble monument on the west wall. A thick marble stump on a square base carries a small cupid-like angel made of white marble on top , which shows the oval relief chest of Anna Ursula Sophie Galster, born in 1789, who died in 1789. von Rößing, widowed von Byern. Presumably it is a youth work by Johann Gottfried Schadow . The angel figure is now kept in the monastery museum of the Jerichow monastery .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brochure: “Churches in the Evangelical Church District Elbe-Fläming”, edited by Dietmar Möschner, Burg 2003
- ↑ Ortschronik of the community Zabakuck
- ↑ E.Wernicke: "Descriptive representation of the oldest architectural and art monuments of the districts Jerichow", 1898
Web links
- Zabakuck on Stadt-Jerichow.de
- Village church Zabakuck on Saxony-Anhalt-ABC
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '20.8 " N , 12 ° 12' 48.3" E