St. Andrew's Church (beers)
The St. Andrew's Church in Biere is a Protestant church building , the exterior of which dates from 1850. Biere is part of the municipality of Bördeland in the Salzlandkreis ( Saxony-Anhalt ) .
description
Structure
After the Bier church was badly damaged in 1835, the master mason Weichhardt was commissioned with a new building in 1850. While only changes were made to the Romanesque tower, the nave was rebuilt. In 1852 the construction work was completed.
In its current neo-Romanesque form, the church building consists of the west tower, the nave and the apse . The unplastered church tower made of rubble stones with a floor plan of 8.75 x 6.75 m has a Romanesque basement. It ends with a slate-covered hipped roof that supports a copper -clad roof turret with a slender pyramid tip. The edges of the bell storey are marked with corner pilasters , which protrude over the eaves and support slim tent roofs. The wall fields between the pilaster strips are set back slightly; three arched sound windows are let into them on the long sides and two on the narrow sides. For the tower clock built in 1887, dials were attached to each side. There is a round-arched entrance portal on the west side of the tower. The tower is flanked on both sides by staircase extensions.
The nave and apse are also exposed from yellowish rubble stone. The north and south walls of the 28.30 m long and 15.55 m wide nave are each provided with six pairs of windows, which are arranged one below the other. In between, the wall surfaces are interrupted by pilaster strips. Arched friezes run under the eaves. The retracted semicircular apse is also decorated with pilaster strips and frieze and provided with three small round windows.
inner space
The nave is spanned by a wooden ceiling with a self- supporting hanging structure . The side wings of the three-sided wooden gallery, which was built in in 1850, extend to the choir wall . It can be reached on the west wall via two side stairs. The organ, built in 1853 by the Halberstadt master organ builder Voigt, stands on the west gallery . The wooden pulpit, the stone-carved font and a delicately forged chandelier hanging from the ceiling also date from the 1850s. The apse is adorned with an elaborate fresco , the altar and crucifix were redesigned from wood for a comprehensive interior renovation. A bronze bell, cast in Benneckenstein in 1838, hangs in the tower .
The Bier church is dedicated to the apostle Andreas .
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments, Saxony-Anhalt I , p. 102, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7
Web links
- Detailed description at hss.ulb.uni-bonn.de (PDF; 3.6 MB)
- Information on the Egeln church district website
Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ 21.9 ″ N , 11 ° 39 ′ 13 ″ E