St. Johannes (Hämerten)

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The village church of St. Johannes in Hämerten

The village church St. Johannes is a listed church building in Hämerten , a district of Tangermünde in the district of Stendal ( Saxony-Anhalt ). It belongs to the Stendal parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

It is one of the seven so-called inverted churches in the Altmark , the church tower is not, as is usual in the west, but in the east above the altar.

History and architecture

The field stone church is a Romanesque building from the 13th century and at the same time the oldest choir tower church in the Altmark region. The apse adjoins the bell tower, which changes from a square to an octagon above the approach of the roof. The apse is adorned with a frieze on consoles . Presumably the building was designed as a fortified church , the small door openings and the small arched windows through which the walls are divided indicate this. The cemetery wall that bounded the surrounding cemetery was also used for defense. Some of the windows were enlarged in 1710. The tower is crowned with an eight-sided tent roof, it was covered with wooden shingles in 1947 and renewed in 2001. The sacristy is added to the tower, it was used at times as a so-called bahrenkammer (morgue). The walls are made of field stone, except for the frieze of the apse, the borders of the windows are made of brick. The church is accessed via an entrance on the south side of the choir, walled entrances are in three other places in the masonry of the walls. A groin vault was installed in the choir, the apse is vaulted with a semi-dome. The roof structure, built in 1191, was reinforced in 2002 by a wooden structure. A comprehensive renovation of the interior was possible in 2007 with the help of the KiBa Foundation.

Furnishing

Interior of the church.

The church furnishings mainly come from the Baroque period:

  • The font from around 1450 was replaced by a new one around 1900 and was then lost.
  • The bell, cast by the bell caster Michaelsmeister in 1471, was destroyed by fire at the end of the Second World War. The remains were used by the bell founder Schilling from Apolda in 1948 to make a new bell.
  • The altarpiece is a work from 1710.
  • A baptism angel
  • The pulpit is on the south wall.

literature

  • Margarete Luise Goecke-Seischab: The most beautiful churches in Germany: 1000 churches and church treasures from the North Sea to Lake Constance. Anaconda Verlag, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-7306-0013-9 .

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Hämerten  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ village church
  2. ↑ Patronage
  3. ↑ fortified church
  4. ↑ Tower
  5. ↑ Building description
  6. ↑ renovation 2007
  7. ↑ Baptismal font and bell
  8. ↑ Pulpit and baptismal angel

Coordinates: 52 ° 35 ′ 24.5 ″  N , 11 ° 59 ′ 9.4 ″  E