St. Nicolaus (Nedlitz)
Sankt Nicolaus is the Protestant church in the village of Nedlitz in Saxony-Anhalt , which belongs to the city of Gommern .
Architecture and history
The Romanesque church was built from rubble stones in the 12th century. The nave is closed to the east by a retracted choir and a semicircular apse . On the west side of the nave is the church tower built on a rectangular plan at the end of the 12th century / beginning of the 13th century. The tower is a little wider than the nave. It is covered by a gable roof. Openings in the bell storey today were added later. The wall thickness of the tower is 1.70 meters, that of the ship 1.00 meters.
In 1642 the church was largely destroyed and rebuilt from 1660 onwards. In the 17th century the nave was given wide arched windows. The windows of the apse and the priest's door on the south side of the choir are still in their original state.
In 1968 the tower had to be closed due to dilapidation. The other parts of the building were also in urgent need of renovation. There have been no services in the church since that year. At the beginning of the 1990s, work on the repair of the church began, so that services could be celebrated again from 1996.
The interior of the church is spanned by a beamed ceiling. There is a round triumphal arch between the nave and the choir. There is a wooden gallery on the north and west side. The basement of the church tower, which was used as a crypt in the Baroque period, is opened to the nave through two arches. The baroque crucifixion painting behind the altar dates from the second half of the 17th century . It belonged to a predella with Supper painting to a altarpiece . The predella is now in the basement of the tower.
The wooden pulpit with the sound cover is dated to 1611. The pulpit is decorated with the donor's coat of arms of a von Spitznaß, née Dorstatt . In the blind arcades there are paintings of the four evangelists. The oldest piece of equipment is a twelve-sided font from around 1220. The basin, decorated with a palmette frieze, rests on three sculptures. The heavily damaged sculptures represent a naked, clothed person and a lion. Originally there was a fourth sculpture.
On the south wall there is a resurrection painting from 1630. Noteworthy is a wall epitaph for Robert Christian von Hacke, who died in 1739, with a domed inscription cartouche under a bust of Hackes surrounded by putti.
The bell in the church tower consists of two cast steel bells weighing 530 and 283 kilograms, respectively. Originally the church received two bronze bells in 1757 , but they have not been preserved. A first organ was installed in 1786.
In the church crypt there are seven mummies from the 18th and 19th centuries, the clothing of which has also been preserved.
literature
- Folkhard Cremer, Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony-Anhalt, Magdeburg District , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 649 f.
- Dietmar Möschner, Churches in the Evangelical Church District Elbe-Fläming , Burg 2003, ISBN 3-9809011 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Report of the Volksstimme from January 28, 2011 (PDF; 275 kB)
Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 43.1 ″ N , 11 ° 49 ′ 51.5 ″ E