Luther Church (Stendal)
The Luther Church is a Protestant church in the Röxe district in Saxony-Anhalt, which belongs to the city of Stendal . It belongs to the Stendal parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
Architecture and history
The church was built in 1904/05 in the neo-Gothic style. The design was created under the direction of senior building officer Oskar Hossfeld , the advisor responsible for church construction in the Prussian Ministry of Public Works in Berlin; the drafting was the responsibility of one of his employees, government builder Roger Slawski , who left the ministry in 1904.
The parish had previously used the old village church Röxe , which has served as a cemetery chapel ever since.
The hall church was built from brick. To the east of the nave is a small rectangular choir. The mighty church tower is inserted on the west side of the ship. The tower wears a pointed helmet that is flanked by four wight towers . The nave has buttresses , between which a pair of windows with gabled lintels are arranged. The double portal on the west side is framed in a rectangular shape with ornaments made of shaped stones , whereby the design is based on the model of the transept portal of St. Stephen's Church in Tangermünde .
The interior of the church is spanned by a stepped wooden beam ceiling. Originally there were polygonal roof houses that illuminated the interior. However, these superstructures were removed around 1970. Both in the basement of the tower and in the choir there is a groin vault . The ship has circumferential galleries. The interior furnishings are all from the time the church was built. The altar was provided by master stonemason Sonnenburg, Stendal. The altar crucifix and the pulpit were created by the Gustav Kuntzsch company , Wernigerode . Schlosser Helmbold, Stendal, made the chandeliers . The organ comes from the Richard Voigt organ building company, Stendal.
literature
- The new Protestant church in Röxe near Stendal. In: Journal of Construction . 57th year 1907, booklet IV to VI, column 163 ff.
- Evangelical Church Röxe. In: Atlas zur Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , 57th year 1907, pages 26-29. (Printed reproduction of the plans, online , accessed May 22, 2014)
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Saxony-Anhalt I, administrative district Magdeburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 781.
Web links
- Parish area Stendal Südwest , accessed on September 22, 2017.
- architecture spotlight: Röxe, Ev. Luther Church , accessed on September 22, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ NN: For the consecration of the Röxer Church. In: Der Altmärker , Stendal, from November 30, 1905.
Coordinates: 52 ° 35 ′ 25.1 ″ N , 11 ° 50 ′ 32.1 ″ E