Schrotholzkirche wasps
The Schrotholzkirche Wespen is a Protestant church in Wespen in Saxony-Anhalt .
Architecture / history
The church building is built in the form of the scrap wood churches and is the only shingle-roofed scrap wood church in Germany. The small church, built from logs in block construction on a rectangular floor plan, was built in 1687. It was built by exiles from Bohemia who settled in Wasps .
A roof turret clad with wooden boards is located above the western gable as a church tower . The eastern end of the nave is polygonal .
From 1994 onwards the church was extensively restored. Plastering that was done in the past was removed again.
Interior
The nave has a flat wooden ceiling. There is a gallery on the west side . Noteworthy is an eight-sided baptismal font from the late Gothic period and the remainder of an altarpiece from around 1700, which depicts a carved crucifixion group against a painted background .
There are two out in the church sandstone made epitaphs . One for Johann Matth. Who died in 1726 . Lichtenfeld , the other from 1730 for the Ritter couple . The latter has the allegories of death to the side of the inscription panel.
environment
The church is a little raised in the middle of the village. The village pond is to the southeast. To the southwest of the entrance is a war memorial for the citizens of Wasps who fell in the world wars of the 20th century. A historical tombstone has been placed in front of the war memorial.
literature
- Dehio Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony-Anhalt I, Magdeburg administrative district. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich / Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , p. 1009.
Web links
- Schrotholzkirche wasps on evangelische-kirche-barby.de
Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′ 33.2 " N , 11 ° 49 ′ 35.7" E