St. Katharinen (Kirchbarkau)
The St. Katharinen Church is the church of the Evangelical Lutheran community in Kirchbarkau , Schleswig-Holstein .
history
A church in the place then called Barkau was first mentioned in 1259. The present village church of St. Catherine, in place of a previous building from 1500 to 1695 as a church hall in brick built. It has a crypt extension from 1734.
The freestanding wooden bell tower dates from the beginning of the 16th century. Individual beams could be dated to the 14th century. Three bells hang in the tower, of which the Marienglocke from 1492 is the oldest.
The furnishings with the Rantzau stalls from 1586, which are assigned to the master carver Ciriacus Dirkes from the Eckernförde sculpture school and show the landlord Paul Rantzau on Bothkamp with his nine sons and his wife Beate Sehestedt with his six daughters, are worth seeing . The church also has a baptismal font made of limestone from the island of Gotland from the early 13th century, an altar cross from the 15th century and a baptismal angel from the 18th century. There is also a Marcussen organ from 1852 in the church .
literature
- Hartmut Beseler: Kunsttopographie Schleswig-Holstein , Neumünster 1974, pp. 174–176
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein . 3rd revised and updated edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-422-03120-3
- Richard Haupt : The buildings and art monuments of the province of Schleswig-Holstein. Vol. 2, Kiel 1888, [1]
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Church tower on the side of the parish
- ^ Description of the church, organ and equipment on the church music in Kirchbarkau page
Coordinates: 54 ° 12 ′ 42.1 ″ N , 10 ° 8 ′ 29.4 ″ E