St. John's Church (Barby)

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The Protestant St. John's Church in Barby in the Salzlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt was built in the early Gothic style in the 13th century . Until the Reformation it was the monastery church of the Franciscan monastery there .

Building history

The church, 40 meters long and 10 meters wide, was built from rubble stones between 1264 and 1271 as the Franciscan monastery church and is the oldest preserved building in the city. On the north side it originally bordered the cloister , so there is only one window at the east end. The south facade is divided into twelve ogival windows that extend from the eaves to three meters above the ground. Two arched portals are embedded below. The east and west walls are divided with three-window groups, the original gable cross is on the east gable. As a monastery church of a mendicant order , the building received no tower, however, the roof wearing a ridge turret .

The brothers of the Franciscan order founded in 1210 probably settled in Barby in 1264; The monastery was first reliably mentioned in 1279. It belonged to the Saxon Franciscan Province ( Saxonia ).

In the 14th century the monastery fell victim to a fire, but was restored at the instigation of Count Günther II . At the provincial chapter of Saxonia in 1507 in Cottbus, Provincial Minister Ludwig Henning forced the brothers of the convent in Barby to adopt the moderately strict Martinian way of life, as did the brothers in Aschersleben and Burg .

With the introduction of the Reformation in Barby around 1540, the Franciscan monastery was abolished by the Barby counts , the monastery church was converted into the castle and burial church of the counts until 1659. After extensive restorations and alterations in 1886 and 1937, no further maintenance work was carried out on the building, so that the use of the church in the 1990s appeared to be endangered. In the autumn of 1994, extensive basic repairs to the roof and the roof turret began.

Interior

The interior of the nave is closed off by a flat wooden ceiling divided by cross beams. The oldest furnishings are the numerous, partly colored, grave monuments of the Barby Counts. The oldest grave slab for Count Burkart dates from 1271. The altarpiece is dedicated to Count Wolf I († 1565) and his family with a detailed sequence of images. A life-size stone figure of Christ comes from the second half of the 14th century , and around 1510 a crescent moon Madonna was made from linden wood. In addition to several epitaphs , four oil paintings show important pastors of St. John's Church from four centuries (1588–1820). The base of the baroque baptismal font from the beginning of the 18th century shows a carved figure of John the Baptist , while the Annunciation of the Lord is depicted on the baptismal bowl . The pulpit in neo-Gothic style was created in the workshop of the wood sculptor Gustav Kuntzsch in Wernigerode (1886–1887), which also supplied the organ case and number plates.

The organ in the west gallery from the workshop of Zörbiger organ builder Wilhelm Rühlmann is in its original condition of the 1886th

Three stained glass windows behind the altar in the east wall with scenes from the life of Jesus were donated at the end of the 20th century.

literature

  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Saxony-Anhalt I. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , p. 78.
  • Church district Egeln (ed.): Blessings on wide land - The churches of the Protestant church district Egeln. Edition Akanthus, Spröda 2016, p. 40.

Web links

Commons : St. John's Church (Barby)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Berg (Ed.): Traces of Franciscan History. Werl 1999, p. 61.71.
  2. ↑ Dieter Berg (Ed.): Traces of Franciscan History. Werl 1999, p. 231.
  3. ↑ Dieter Berg (Ed.): Traces of Franciscan History. Werl 1999, p. 287.
  4. ↑ Guided tour of St. John's Church in Barby , accessed on January 4, 2020.
  5. ^ Soproni Múzeum, Sopron ( Hungary ), Inventory No. P. 2425 E 251 (Storno Könyvtár): Gustav Kuntzsch folder , not paged.
  6. ↑ Opus list of organ building = Institute of W. Rühlmann, Zörbig. Retrieved May 19, 2020 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ 7.1 ″  N , 11 ° 53 ′ 2.3 ″  E