Saint Sebastian Church (Samswegen)
The Sankt Sebastian Church is the Protestant church in the village of Samswegen in Saxony-Anhalt , which is part of the Niedere Börde community .
Architecture and history
The church dates back to the 12th century. It is a plastered hall church on a rectangular floor plan. To the west of the nave is the transverse rectangular church tower. It is covered by a gable roof and has a roof turret . The sound openings are designed as round arches. At the end of the 17th century the nave was rebuilt in the Baroque style . In 1890 a semicircular apse was added to the east side of the nave and a likewise round brick sacristy to the south .
The church is accessed from the south side through a gabled arched portal made of quarry stone, which was built in the middle of the 19th century.
The building was repaired in 1992.
The interior of the church is spanned by a flat ceiling. There is a gallery on the west side . Two arched arcades originally leading to the basement of the tower are walled up. The equipment was simplified in the period after 1950. In the church there is a historicizing carved altar , created in 1890, as well as a neo-Romanesque organ from the end of the 19th century made by master organ builder August Troch , Neuhaldensleben . The altar, the organ case and the pulpit were made by the Gustav Kuntzsch company , Institute for Church Art, Wernigerode . The baptismal font in the form of a chalice, however, was created in the Gothic period . It has an octagonal cup resting on a short shaft .
The elaborately designed tombstone of Sybilla Catharina von Börstel , who died in 1730 , the dominatrix of the noble Fräuleinstift in Wolmirstedt, is remarkable . The gravestone shows a kneeling depiction of the deceased with a crucifix on a relief. There is an inscription plaque below the relief. On the side of the stone, an ancestral specimen consisting of 16 parts was incorporated. On the bronze bell of the church, cast by Johannes Greten in 1696, there is, in addition to the coat of arms of the administrator Friedrich von Brandenburg , the coat of arms of Sybilla Catharina von Börstel .
There are several inscription tombstones from the mid-18th century on the outside of the church.
The GDR civil rights activist and later member of the state parliament for Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Hans-Jochen Tschiche lived for a long time in the parish's neighboring rectory.
literature
- Folkhard Cremer in Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony-Anhalt I, Magdeburg District , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , p. 821.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 35.2 ″ N , 11 ° 33 ′ 43.1 ″ E