St. Levin (Harbke)
The Protestant village church St. Levin (also: Harbke Castle Church ) is a hall church from the 16th century in Harbke in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt . It belongs to the parish of Hötensleben in the Egeln parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany and is known for its valuable baroque organ.
History and architecture
The Harbke Castle Church was built in 1572 as a simple rectangular building on the foundation walls of an older structure near Harbke Castle and expanded in 1718/1719 with a west tower with a curved dome and a small lantern . On the south side of the church there is a walled up portal with the year of construction and the coat of arms of those of Bartensleben and von Veltheim . The segment arch windows were probably broken in at the same time as the west tower.
Despite the baroque windows, the interior is relatively dark and is surrounded by a three-sided gallery . On the south side of the choir there is a manor's box, which is dated to the year 1593 on the older part and is provided with fluted pilasters , coat of arms decorations and biblical sayings and on the younger part shows coat of arms decorations from around 1720. The room is closed with a flat beamed ceiling with stucco work from the late Renaissance period, showing the small-scale decor pressed with models (lions with coats of arms, deer hunts, masks, stars and other symbols).
Settlements on the tower as a result of the lignite opencast mining in the area put the church and organ at risk, which made a restoration necessary with the support of the ZEIT Foundation in the years 2000–2007.
Furnishing
The carved altarpiece bears an image of the Last Supper between columns, auricle cheeks and an inscription cartouche from 1676 underneath. Behind the altar is a wooden gallery with a delicate baluster parapet. The carved pulpit decorated with the coat of arms of those of Veltheim and von Saldern rests on a slim fluted column and is dated with the year 1591.
Numerous epitaphs and gravestones of the von Veltheim and von Engelbrecht families have been preserved. The epitaph of Achatius von Veltheim († 1588) and his wife Margarethe von Saldern († 1615) should be emphasized, which shows a richly carved architectural structure with scrollwork and fittings with a relief with the resurrection in the middle, which is made up of life-size full-length images of the Deceased is framed. Also to be mentioned is the epitaph of Hembo von Veltheim († 1681) with a portrait of the deceased framed by pilasters and heraldic decorations. The sandstone epitaph of Katharina von Engelbrecht († 1600) shows the deceased kneeling in front of the crucifix. The epitaph for a daughter of Heinrich von Bülow († 1602) made of sandstone with alabaster reliefs shows in the middle in a round arch niche the resurrection of the daughter of Jairus and in the top the resurrection of Christ; the figurative representations as well as the rich ornamental framing with masks, angel heads and fruit pendants are of particular artistic value and were restored in 2001. Among the figural tombstones from the 16th and 17th centuries, that of Achatius von Veltheim († 1588) is of particular value; the deceased is depicted with armor in a round-arched niche with a coat of arms.
organ
The organ is a work by Christoph Treutmann from 1722 with 22 stops on two manuals and pedal . It contains pipe material from an older, single-manual organ by Gottfried Fritzsche from 1622. The prospectus is carved with acanthus cheeks , the back positive is built into the parapet of the gallery. The organ was restored by Jörg Dutschke and the Wegscheider organ workshop until 2007 . The disposition is:
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- Coupling : I / II, II / P
- Secondary register : Tremulant , Cimbelstern , Calcant
- Playing aids : valve in the main work, valve in the back work
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony Anhalt I. District of Magdeburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , pp. 363–364.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Felix Friedrich , Vitus Froesch: Organs in Saxony-Anhalt - A travel guide. Verlag Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad, Altenburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-930550-79-1 , pp. 143-145.
Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′ 28 " N , 11 ° 2 ′ 47.3" E