Evangelical Church (Großkühnau)
The church in Großkühnau is a Protestant church in the Dessau-Roßlauer district Großkühnau in Saxony-Anhalt .
history
Before the current church was built, there was a church built around 975. Like the Church of St. Peter in Törten , the Benedictine monks from Nienburg looked after the church during the Middle Ages .
Duke Leopold von Anhalt had the old field stone chapel demolished in 1828 and built a new church in 1828/1829.
architecture
The plans for this church, built in neo-Romanesque style, came from the collaboration of the Duke and the builder Carlo Ignazio Pozzi (1766–1842). It was intended as a supplement to the palace built in the classical style .
Interior design
The upside-down capital on which the red granite pulpit column rests (8th – 9th centuries) comes from the old church, as do the two bells, which were cast around 1050 and are therefore among the oldest in Germany. The inscription on the smaller bell attests to the consecration to the Virgin Mary.
Images from the history of salvation are depicted on the glass paintings in the curves of the windows from the 18th century. The interior of the church was renovated in 1979 for the 150th anniversary.
Individual evidence
literature
- Evangelical churches in Dessau, published by the Parish Association of the City of Dessau on the occasion of the 775th anniversary of the City of Dessau in 1988 (Py IV / 5 / 35-39 / 88)
Web links
- Großkühnau church on the pages of the parishes of the region on the Elbe in Dessau
Coordinates: 51 ° 51 ′ 12.7 ″ N , 12 ° 10 ′ 51 ″ E