St. Andreas Church (Siersleben)
The St. Andreas Church is an old church building in the Gerbstedter district of Siersleben . It has been named after the apostle Andrew since 1662 . It belongs to the parish area Gerbstedt in Kirchenkreis Eisleben-Sömmerda the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
location
The church is located on a hill at the intersection of Augsdorfer Straße - Schulstraße next to the primary school on the southern outskirts of the village.
Building
The current shape of the church comes from the Romanesque and Gothic periods , the lower part of the nave was built around 1230, the upper part around 1250. The oldest part is on the site of the church tower , the former north portal must have been even older, it contained the purest Romanesque forms and probably came from around 1100. The half-walled cross-walled arched windows on the west side of the tower are also very old.
Many old works of art were destroyed during renovations at the end of the 19th century. The tower was originally accessible via a spiral staircase, which, however, was replaced by today's quarter-turn staircase when the organ was rebuilt. At the top of the church tower are two partially preserved pointed arch twin windows used as a sound opening, the intermediate columns of which are covered with calyx-bud capitals. In 1484 a Gothic sacrament niche with Gothic minuscule and capitals as an inscription was installed in the chancel. Your altar shrine no longer exists today.
There is a small statue on the northern porch that has not yet been interpreted. G. Sommer saw in it a tombstone of a child, according to Erich Neuss and Hermann Großler it is a pagan deity. It resembles the statues on the Müllerdorf Church. In the cemetery around the church there are several Mansfeld baroque tombstones, which were enclosed with a wall and a simple gate.
Peal
Today there are two bells in the tower of the church , the diameter of the smaller ones is 87 cm and that of the larger ones 107 cm. Both are rung regularly. In 1887 the community of Siersleben obtained a third bell with a diameter of 135 cm and a weight of 1320 kg from the Ulbricht bell foundry in Laucha, following a proposal from the local school in Wendenburg . It rang for 30 years and had to be given up in the First World War because of its iron. After it was released from the tower, it was instantly shattered. The church received compensation of 4,121 marks. On January 8, 1942, another bell was removed and taken to the registration point. On October 3, 1947, pastor Lohmeyer learned that the bell had not been melted down but was now in a Hamburg warehouse. He had these sent to Siersleben. On November 6, 1949, the bell was pulled back onto the tower.
literature
- Erich Neuss: walks through the county of Mansfeld. Volume 3, In the Heart of the County . fly head publishing house, Halle (Saale), 2001
- Brochure 1000 years of Siersleben
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Coordinates: 51 ° 36 ′ 6.1 ″ N , 11 ° 32 ′ 43.2 ″ E