Gutskirche Schönfeld

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Design drawing by CW Hase, 1882

The Gutskirche Schönfeld is located in Schönfeld , a district of the city of Bismark in the Stendal district in the north of the state of Saxony-Anhalt . The former Gutskirche is a building by the architect Conrad Wilhelm Hase , the founder of the “ Hanover School of Architecture ”. The neo-Gothic brick church was built from 1883 to 1885 (according to Dehio 1882–1884) on the edge of the Schönfeld estate area next to the medieval village church. The church was founded by the landowners at the time, Elisabeth and Otto von Rundstedt .

history

CW Hase built the manor church in Schönfeld based on his design from 1882. During the construction work, the architect Eduard Wendebourg from Hanover was his permanent representative on site. Another prominent artist who worked at the Schönfelder Gutskirche was the painter Hermann Schaper from Hanover, who carried out the wall painting in the axis field of the choir polygon. Since its inauguration on September 23, 1885, the manor church of the von Rundstedt family served as the parish church of the village for 91 years. After the expropriation during the land reform in 1945, the building came into the possession of the “Volksgut Schönfeld” and was finally handed over to the parish in 1952. Since it already owned the medieval stone church in the immediate vicinity, it gave up the Gutskirche in 1976 for financial reasons and later offered it for sale, previously in vain. Since then, the Gutskirche was left to decay and had to be closed by the building authorities .

While the parish decided to demolish it in 2010, the association “Friends of Gutskirche Schönfeld” was founded in the same year, with the aim of renovating the building and maintaining it permanently. Acknowledged by an article in the magazine Monuments of the German Foundation for Monument Protection , the parish of the Christ Church in Hanover donated seven pews from the Hanover church building, also designed by Conrad Wilhelm Hase.

Building description

The neo-Gothic brick hall church with a cruciform floor plan consists of a wide, 42 m high west transverse tower, nave and transept and a polygonal choir with a five-eighth end. There is a mosaic with Christ blessing and a rose window above the main entrance . The shape of this rose window was transferred to both the north and south transept gables. In doing so, CW Hase deviated from his original facade design, which included a group of three differently designed circular rosettes on the gable surfaces. The tower is divided into the ribbed vaulted ground floor (the vestibule), the organ loft open to the nave and the bell-shaped storey with the spire. The nave consists of two rectangular bays with ribbed vaults.

Some of the original furnishings, which were in good condition until the end of the 1990s and were largely designed by CW Hase, have remained in the church to this day. These are the remains of the altar, which was destroyed by vandalism, at the time created by wood sculptor Gustav Kuntzsch from Wernigerode , the wrought-iron chandelier, the pulpit and the fully mechanical organ. Some parts of the furniture are in use in the old church, others have been sold, destroyed or stolen. Shortly before the end of the First World War , two of the three bells donated by Elisabeth von Rundstedt's brothers were smashed on the church tower and transported away.

literature

  • Church for Schönfeld near Stendal. In: Gustav Schönermark (Hrsg.): Journal The Architecture of the Hanover School. Modern works of architecture and applied arts in medieval style . Manz & Lange Verlag, Hannover-Linden, 2nd year 1890, 3rd year 1891.
  • Uta-Barbara Riecke: The Schönfeld Church by Conrad Wilhelm Hase - considerations for the future of an endangered architectural monument. Frankfurt (Oder) 2010 (Master's thesis at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Troche in: To the best of the people / An association bought the Schönfelder Gutskirche on monumente-online.de , last accessed on February 28, 2014
  2. ^ Hermann Stäcker: Chronicle of the home of the village of Schönfeld near Stendal, compiled from documents and reports , started in Schönfeld in 1927.

Coordinates: 52 ° 36 ′ 59 ″  N , 11 ° 44 ′ 8 ″  E