Letzlingen Castle Church
The Letzlingen Castle Church is a church in the Letzlingen district of the town of Gardelegen in northern Saxony-Anhalt . It is attributed to historicism .
history
The Letzlingen hunting lodge opposite the church was rebuilt in the 1840s to 1850s on the farm of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. In the English neo-Gothic style , the Tudor Revival , on the site of an older castle. 1853, the architect designed Friedrich August Stüler a church in the same style that the existing church - a simple building with a central ridge turret to replace -. Friedrich Wilhelm IV himself had outlined his architectural ideas as a pencil sketch on a drawing of the old church. The foundation stone was laid in 1857, but construction did not actually begin until 1859. In 1861 the church was inaugurated. Friedrich Wilhelm IV died in the same year, so that his brother and successor as king, Wilhelm I , carried out the inauguration on December 11, 1861. He himself donated a crucifix and two bells with his dedications. Elisabeth , the widow of Friedrich Wilhelm IV, donated the organ and the altarpiece .
After the fall of the Wall , the church was in such bad shape that it was considered to close. However, it was gradually and comprehensively renovated in the following period.
Architecture, equipment and use of the church
The church faces the main entrance of the castle about 100 meters to the east with its entrance diametrically opposite. The clinker brick building is a hall church and consists of a nave and a transept with a pseudo three-apse closure . Two slender corner towers with an octagonal floor plan stand on the west side, on the crossing there is a roof turret. The portal is decorated by other turrets.
The interior is characterized by a wooden ceiling rising towards the central axis and high windows. In the crossing there is a wooden cross rib vault , while the choir has a flat rib vault . There are galleries on both sides in the crossing, the organ gallery on the west side. The walls are designed with stencil painting . The furnishings include a pulpit, an altar with an altarpiece that shows Christ praying in the Garden of Getsemane and was painted by Clara Genicke , a baptismal font acquired in the 2010s and an organ that was built by Carl Böttcher from Magdeburg when the church was built. It has 17 registers and two manuals. The bells donated by Wilhelm I are set up in the north transept, the ringing consists of two smaller, newly made bells. Friedrich Wilhelm IV's pencil sketch is also on display in the church.
The church belongs to the parish of Letzlingen in the parish of Salzwedel of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany . Between Easter and the first Sunday in November - traditionally the Hubertus service takes place on this day - it is used for services and casuals . In summer, concerts are held as part of the “Letzlinger-Roxförder Musiksommers”.
Surroundings
The church is on the western edge of Letzlingen in the castle park.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Letzlinger Schlosskirche at architektur-blicklicht.de, accessed on September 12, 2016
- ↑ a b Schlosskirche Letzlingen at urbanite.net, accessed on September 12, 2016
- ↑ a b The most beautiful thing is people's thanks. Volksstimme of May 18, 2011, accessed on September 24, 2016
- ↑ Letzlingen parish area. Retrieved May 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Community Letter 2014/2015 (PDF; 8.28 MB), accessed on September 12, 2016
Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 43 " N , 11 ° 28 ′ 58.4" E