St. John's Church (Eickendorf)
The St. Johannis Church in Eickendorf is a Protestant church that has existed in its current form since 1750. Eickendorf , part of the municipality of Bördeland , is located in the Salzlandkreis , Saxony-Anhalt .
history
The local church, which dates back to the Middle Ages, was under the patronage of the Magdeburg patrician family Rohde until 1719 and then passed to the monastery of Our Lady in Magdeburg. The first Protestant pastor in Eickendorf was Andreas Bederin, who took office in 1546. Until 1880 the monastery sent the Eickendorf pastors. After the Eickendorfer farmers had become prosperous in the 18th century, the nave was demolished in 1750 and rebuilt. The tower and the tympanum were preserved from the medieval church building .
description
The oldest part of the building is the rectangular west tower, locally referred to as the "Saxon Tower". It was already part of the previous medieval church, the nave of which was demolished in 1750. The tower is plastered except for the base, on the base it can be seen that it was built from rubble stones. Its original roof was later replaced by a baroque, curly dome covered with slate. Immediately under the roof there are six arched sound windows, as well as a clock face to the south and east of the tower clock.
The nave, made of quarry stones, is an elongated, rectangular and plastered hall building , which is closed with a tile-covered gable roof . On the side walls there are high, flat-arched windows, which are lead-glazed in the eastern part. An elliptical window is arranged above the two arched windows on the east wall. A Romanesque tympanum is set between the east wall windows, in which Christ is represented as the judge of the world together with John the Baptist (namesake of the church). It is assigned to the 12th century.
Inside, a painted wooden barrel vault closes the nave. To the east there is a wooden pulpit altar with filigree carving . Two pavilion-like pries were built to the left and right of it . A late Gothic sacrament shrine is set behind the altar . Like the altar, the three-sided wooden gallery dates from the time of the new building.
The organ stands on the swinging back central gallery . There is a grave slab for Johann Moritz Falkenberg († 1745) under the organ gallery.
Bells
The bells of the Eickendorfer church were largely spared from the two world wars. Only the middle bell was melted down during the First World War and was not replaced by a new cast until 1926. The fact that the bells were not melted down in World War II is thanks to the farmer Heinrich Engel, who, together with the state curator, campaigned for the bells to be cleared.
There are three bronze bells hanging in the tower . The largest was cast in 1440, is 1.23 m in diameter and weighs 900 kg. The middle bell with a diameter of 0.96 m was cast in 1926 by the Apolda bell foundry Schilling and Sons . The third bell has a diameter of 0.73 m; according to the inscription, it was cast in 1585.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments, Saxony-Anhalt I , p. 193, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 .
- Joachim Freyer: Churches of the district of Schönebeck , Grafisches Zentrum Cuno, Calbe 2004, pp. 73–76.
- Andreas Pinkert: To the highest angle in the church , on www.volksstimme.de, July 7, 2011, accessed on November 19, 2015.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 56 ′ 59.8 " N , 11 ° 40 ′ 19.4" E