St. Katharinen (Lenzen)
The Protestant town church St. Katharinen in Lenzen is a Gothic brick church in Lenzen on the Elbe in the Prignitz district in Brandenburg . It belongs to the parish of Lenzen in the parish of Lenzen-Lanz-Seedorf in the Prignitz parish of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia and is an open church .
History and architecture
The Lenzen town church is a brick Gothic hall church that has been modified several times with a three-aisled nave, transept and a choir with a five-eighth end . Today's tower, which is rectangular in plan, with a square top and pointed helmet, was completed in 1760. A restoration took place in 1929. After 1990 the church was renovated again.
The church is closed on the inside with ribbed vaults on cross-shaped pillars; the western crossing pillars are each formed by two round pillars that are fused together. The church has buttresses on all components except the north transept.
Renewed paintings from the late Gothic period adorn the belt arches of the vaults and the ship's arcades. Overall, the spatial impression was greatly changed by the installation of baroque galleries in the 18th century.
Furnishing
The main piece of equipment is a two-storey wooden altar structure from 1652 with columns and paintings depicting the Last Supper and the Last Judgment. The pulpit with carved Rococo ornaments dates from 1759.
The medieval baptism is a bronze cast by Heinrich Grawert from Braunschweig in 1486. The cauldron is carried by four figures of St. Catherine on lions' heads; on the wall of the cauldron the apostles are depicted in graceful arcades (comparable to the baptism of St. Catherine's Church in Salzwedel ).
On the north transept gallery is a wooden crucifix from the 18th century. An ornate brass chandelier is dated 1656 by the inscription.
Numerous epitaphs and tombstones complete the equipment. Mention should be made of an epitaph for Ernst Friedrich Hoffmann († 1706) with a painted portrait medallion framed with richly carved acanthus ornament. The epitaph for E. Stryke († 1677) shows a painting of the Entombment framed with columns and carvings. Two other smaller epitaphs come from the 17th century.
There are also three gravestones to be mentioned, including one for Magdalena Tuchscher († 1595) with a depiction of a child, another for the bailiff Tuchscher († 1796) with a half-length portrait in bas-relief and for Anna Grieben († 1612) with a lively depiction of the deceased as a knee and a cartridge with Hi 19.25 LU .
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The organ built in Hamburg by Arp Schnitger from 1707/08 was from Hamburg-St. Georg bought by the municipality of Lenzen. After a tower collapse in 1751, the organ had to be renovated by Gottlieb Scholtze in 1759; the case and some stops from previous organs by Hans Scherer the Younger and Arp Schnitger have been preserved. The organ was restored by Orgelbau Reinhard Hüfken in 2005-2007 and has 27 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The disposition is:
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- Tremulant (I)
- Beat (II)
- Cuppel II / I right
- Cuppel II / I left
- Sun train
- Stop valve manual
- Check valve Oberwerck
- Stop valve pedal
literature
- Ernst Badstübner: City churches of the Mark Brandenburg. 1st edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1982, pp. 186–187.
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03054-9 , pp. 577-579.
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Website of the Evangelical Parish Lenzen-Lanz-Seedorf
- Website of the parish of Lenzen-Lanz-Seedorf
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the pages of the support group for old churches in Brandenburg. Retrieved June 29, 2020 .
- ^ Website on the organ of the church in Lenzen. Retrieved September 5, 2017 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 27.3 ″ N , 11 ° 28 ′ 32.3 ″ E