St. Stephan Church (Zens)
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The St. Stephan Church in Zens is a Protestant church building in the Zens district of the municipality of Bördeland in the Salzlandkreis , Saxony-Anhalt . It belongs to the parish area Barby in the parish of leeches of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
description
Structure
The church building was built in the Gothic style in 1895 after a previous church had been demolished . Red brick was used as a building material. The building consists of the square west tower, the rectangular nave, the drawn-in transverse rectangular chancel and northern and southern transept-like extensions. The nave and the chancel are separated by a stepped gable . The tower has a pointed slate dome with four clock mansards, the extensions are also covered with slate. The nave and chancel have a gable roof made of bricks. All windows are ogival.
inner space
The nave is closed with an open boarded roof truss, and there is a groin vault above the chancel . On a wooden west gallery in 1895 from is Orgelbaumeister August Troch from Neuhaldensleben made organ with two manuals and nine registers . The altar has an ornamentally carved wooden wall, and the pulpit and baptism are made of wood. These inventory items date from the time the church was built. Of the two bells that were once, only one is left today.
The Zenser Church is named after Saint Stephen .
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony-Anhalt I , p. 1032, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7
- Joachim Freyer: Churches of the district of Schönebeck , Grafisches Zentrum Cuno, Calbe 2004, p. 72
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Coordinates: 51 ° 56 ′ 25.1 ″ N , 11 ° 43 ′ 23.6 ″ E