St. Mary's Church (Barby)
The St. Mary's Church in Barby in the Salzlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt is a Protestant sacred building whose early Gothic origins go back to the 13th century. The church is popularly called "Fat Marie".
Building history
Originally, the Marienkirche was built in the second half of the 13th century as a single-nave, elongated building by the builder Gunthard in the early Gothic style. Its dimensions were 42.50 × 9.70 meters. On May 15, 1505, the laying of the foundation stone for the construction of a west tower on a square floor plan began. It collapsed after a little over 50 years and was rebuilt between 1565 and 1571 at a height of 47 meters. It received four floors on a square floor plan and a recessed octagonal upper floor. During the reign of Heinrich XXVI. St. Mary's Church was completely redesigned in 1683, with the side aisles and the sacristy added in the east . In the north and south sides three gabled portals were set in, which remind of the renovation with the year 1683. In 1711 the church tower was given a slate dome with a lantern , and in 1719 a slender roof turret was erected on the roof of the nave . After extensive renovation work had been carried out in the 1930s, the church had to be closed by the building authorities at the end of the 1970s because the ceiling beams had rotten through and parts of the ceiling had fallen off. Thanks to the initiative of the Barbyer Kirchbauverein founded in 1995, the Marienkirche could be made usable again.
Interior
The interior of the nave is closed off by a wooden coffered ceiling that is painted with an ornament pattern. Due to the later addition of the side aisles and the sacristy, only the two eastern side windows extend up to one and a half meters above the floor. The side aisles are open to the central nave through three pointed arcades . In the aisles and in the chancel wood were galleries built which were carried out on two levels to the altar. The baroque organ front by Heinrich Herbst the Younger from the years 1698–1700 stands on the ornately painted west gallery . Today's organ was built in 1915 by the organ building company Wilhelm Rühlmann . The oldest inventory items are the hexagonal baptismal font, executed in Gothic form in 1564, and the three ceiling candlesticks donated in 1585. Several grave slabs from the 16th to 18th centuries are placed on the walls. The baroque pulpit is a foundation from the year 1722. The altar made in 1728 with its high column structure contains a relief-like representation of the crucifixion scene in the middle part and is lined with carved figures of the four evangelists .
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Saxony-Anhalt I. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , p. 3.
- Church district Egeln (ed.): Blessings on wide land - The churches of the Protestant church district Egeln. Edition Akanthus, Spröda 2016, p. 46.
Web links
- St. Marien Church at www.evangelische-kirche-barby.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barby Protestant Parish. Retrieved April 24, 2017 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ 1.3 " N , 11 ° 53 ′ 7.8" E