Neugattersleben Church
The Neugattersleben Church is a neo-Gothic church in the village of Neugattersleben in Saxony-Anhalt . It belongs to the parish of Brumby in the parish of Egeln of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
history
In the middle of the 19th century, ideas arose in Neugattersleben to replace the church, which probably dates from the 10th century, with a more worthy building. A capital of 70,000 marks was accumulated from the parish's property income. In 1879 the Hanoverian building officer Conrad Wilhelm Hase was commissioned to draw up a building design. His ideas about the construction of a Romanesque style church did not meet with approval.
In 1887 the architect Ferdinand Schorbach from Hanover, who had led the renovation of the Neugattersleben Palace four years earlier, was asked to work out a new design. His plan to erect a neo-Gothic church building was unanimously approved by the church bodies. After the building permit was granted by the Royal Consistory in Magdeburg , a building commission was set up in Neugattersleben, which, under the direction of the church patron Werner von Alvensleben-Neugattersleben, announced the construction work. The contract was awarded to the master mason Kegel from Calbe , as well as other craftsmen from Bernburg and Güsten .
The foundation stone for the new church was laid on July 27, 1887. After almost two years of construction, the construction work could be completed; the new building had cost 85,000 marks. On April 9, 1889, the St. Gertrud Church was consecrated.
In 1888, the "Concordia", "Anna" and "Maria" bells, cast in Apolda by the Schilling family of bell-makers , were hung. They had to be given in as a " metal donation " during the First World War and were melted down. At Pentecost 1922 the church received three new bells with the names "Anna", "Joachim-Alvo" and "Treue".
Building description
The new church building was built from rubble stones in the neo-Gothic style. A three-aisled cruciform basilica with a high west tower was built. The tower is flanked by two side towers, which are designed to be open in the lower area. The 38 m high west tower has a pointed six-sided pyramid roof above the bell storey. The aisles are three - sided between the west tower and transept . The transept ends with a gable wall to the south, while the north wing is polygonal . The saddle roof of the nave is provided with four gable dormers on the north side and two on the south side . All roof sections are covered with slate.
The roof structure is open on the inside, a gallery was built into the west wall . The interior walls are richly decorated and pierced by colored glass windows. The windows from the Quedlinburg glass painter's workshop Ferdinand Müller, from the construction period , depict scenes from the Old and New Testaments and the coats of arms of the donors. The altar and the stone baptism also date from the time the church was built. The organ in the west gallery was founded in 1889 by the Zörbiger organ builder sen Wilhelm Rühlmann . created. To the family of Alvensleben remember in the church several epitaphs from the 16th and 17th centuries. The oldest item in the inventory is the pulpit from 1662 from the previous building , which was converted into a canopy .
Hereditary funeral of Alvensleben
In connection with the new building of the church, an elaborate hereditary burial for the von Alvensleben family was erected in the north-east of the churchyard , today known as a mausoleum. The design in the form of a pillared hall is based on the architectural style of the church building. Seven arcades open to the churchyard surround a two-story domed structure. The arcades rest on squat columns with protruding bud capitals . The back wall is decorated with inscriptions and epitaphs. In front of the mausoleum in 1902 a tomb was erected for Anna von Alvensleben, who died in 1897. It was donated by Kaiser Wilhelm II and made from French limestone according to a design by the Berlin sculptor Ludwig Cauer. The sarcophagus with the figure of Anna von Alvensleben was created in Berlin, while the canopy was made on the spot from a mighty block.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments - Saxony-Anhalt II . Deutscher Kunstverlag 1999, ISBN 3-422-03065-4 , p. 616.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 56 " N , 11 ° 42 ′ 28" E