Pötnitzer Church
The Pötnitzer Church is a Protestant church in the Mildensee district in the east of the city of Dessau-Roßlau in Saxony-Anhalt . In addition to the brick church Axien , it is one of the southernmost buildings of Romanesque brick architecture in Saxony-Anhalt.
history
Today's Dessau-Mildensee church is located at the southwest end of the former village of Pötnitz. The large brick building was erected around 1180 as a three-aisled basilica. The Romanesque architectural style can still be recognized today , although the church has been modified over the years. With the establishment of a Benedictine convent in Mildensee, the church was raised from the imperial monastery in Nienburg to a parish church in 1198 .
At the beginning of the 19th century, Prince Franz von Anhalt had his master builder Carlo Ignazio Pozzi redesign the church in its current form.
Since the end of the Second World War there have been three paintings from the former St. Marien Castle Church in the church, as the castle church was bombed out. The best known is probably the Last Supper picture by Lucas Cranach the Younger from the 16th century. The reformers of the Wittenberg Circle - among them Luther and Melanchthon - and members of the princely family are represented in the communion with Jesus .
At one corner of the church is the grave of Christian Gebhard Nordmann , to whom a memorial stone in the cemetery is dedicated.
literature
- Protestant 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)
- Georg Dehio , Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony-Anhalt 2, Dessau and Halle administrative districts, Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin, ISBN 3-422-03065-4
Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 18.6 ″ N , 12 ° 17 ′ 1.5 ″ E
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Dehio, Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Saxony-Anhalt 2, administrative districts Dessau and Halle, pages 132 and 133