St. John's Church (Griebo)

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Saint John's Church
View of the east side

The Sankt-Johannes-Kirche is the Protestant church of the Lutherstadt Wittenberg village Griebo .

Architecture and history

The hall church is of late Romanesque origin. On the west side of the nave, the church tower stands on a transverse rectangular floor plan, the width of which corresponds to that of the nave. The choir has moved into the ship. There is a round apse on the east side . The masonry consists of regular field stones. The church was built around 1200 but was destroyed during the Thirty Years War . Reconstruction began in 1653, with the tower not being built until 1692. On the southern side of the nave there is the priest's gate and a round arched portal walled up in 1729. The church is covered with mansard roofs . These roofs, but also the segmented arched windows, come from renovations in the Baroque style in 1654 and 1729. Since the Reformation , Griebo has been a branch church of the second clergyman from Coswig (Anhalt) .

Structural changes were also made in 1893 and 1894.

The interior of the church is spanned by a mirror vault, which rests on a profiled cornice . There are galleries on the north and west sides of the nave . The pulpit basket was originally part of a neo-Gothic pulpit altar wall built in 1840 . The altar wall was removed in 1985. A stone slab that had long lay in the churchyard now serves as the altar . The neo-Gothic organ prospect also dates from 1840 .

In the church there is a bronze bell cast by Johann Georg Weinhold in 1747 . It had to be delivered to the armaments industry to be melted down during the Second World War , but returned unscathed after the war ended in 1948. The second bell in the church was built in 1923. The baptismal font, made in the form of a chalice and decorated with leaf decorations, dates back to 1676 and was donated by the village mayor Peter Schulze .

The wall that still largely surrounds the churchyard is remarkable. It is of medieval origin, made of field stones and provided with a gable roof.

organ

The late romantic organ was built in 1903 by Ernst Röver . It has 13 stops on two manuals and a pedal .

I main work C–
1. Bourdun 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Reed flute 8th'
4th Delicately packed 8th'
5. octave 4 ′
6th flute 4 ′
7th Mixture II
II upper structure C–
8th. Harmony flute 8th'
9. Dolee 8th'
10. Salicet 8th'
11. Fugara 4 ′
Pedal C–
12. Sub-bass 16 ′
13. Violon 8th'

literature

Web links

Commons : Sankt-Johannes-Kirche (Griebo)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Church parish Griebo ( Memento from March 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 51 ° 52 ′ 54.2 "  N , 12 ° 30 ′ 28.6"  E