St. Paulus (Colbitz)
The Sankt-Paulus-Kirche is the Protestant church in the village of Colbitz in Saxony-Anhalt .
Architecture and history
A predecessor of today's church belonged to the archbishopric Wolmirstedt, the church patronage lay with the Wolmirstedt Jungfrauenkloster . The Lindhorster Church belonged to Colbitz as a branch church. The exact time of the introduction of the Reformation is unknown. However, the first Protestant pastor was Abraham Tiegel, who died in 1604 . In 1618 a new altar was inaugurated, which was still there after the Thirty Years War , but its whereabouts are unknown. However, a full description of the altar has survived. The much smaller previous building was probably damaged several times by fires.
The current church building was built in 1869/70 on the site of a previous building from the Baroque period. The design had already been made by Friedrich August Stüler in 1861 . The construction work was the responsibility of the Colbitz builder and brickworks owner Jakob Bierstedt .
A three-aisled brick gallery was built. The design of the brick-built church uses an Italianized round arch style . On the east side there is a semicircular and windowless apse . To the west of the ship, the church tower was built on a square floor plan. Small branch turrets have been added to the corners of both the tower and the gables of the ship. In the basement of the tower there is a masonry made of field stones, which possibly goes back to the previous building.
The interior of the church presents itself as a light gallery hall. The beamed ceiling spanning the nave rests on round arches, which in turn rest on wooden gothic bundle pillars. On the north, south and west side there is a gallery, which, like the pulpit, dates from the time the church was built. The apse is likely to be painted at a later date. The romanized arcades there were probably built around 1900. The chancel is decorated with Egyptian paintings. The designs for this could possibly come from the Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius, a friend of Stüler's. The baptistery is housed in the southeastern area. There is a neo-Gothic baptism made of cast iron from the second half of the 19th century . The chalice-shaped baptism is painted in natural stone colors. The organ prospect is also neo-Gothic and dates from around 1860. The organ itself, however, is of an older date and probably dates from the middle of the 18th century . It is unclear whether the organ belonged to the previous building or was acquired elsewhere. In World War I, several of were tin -made pipes melted down. Later a fire broke out after a lightning strike. The organ suffered further damage from the extinguishing water. In the end only eight of the original 15 registers were playable. In 1994, with financial support from the Colbitz brewery , major repairs were carried out on the organ.
A child's grave stone from 1687 with a bust and inscription cloth is remarkable. The crucifix and brass chandelier were also used in the previous building and go back to the 17th century .
Today there are only two more recent steel bells in the church. The large one was cast in 1922, the small one in 1964. Both bells served as a replacement for bronze bells that were drawn in and melted down for armament purposes during the First and Second World Wars . The small bell, which was melted down during World War II, is said to have originated in the 18th century from material found in the desolate village of Listen . In addition, a lot of silver is said to have been added to it.
literature
- Folkhard Cremer in Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony-Anhalt I, Magdeburg District , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 152
Web links
- Information about the congregation on the website of the church district
Coordinates: 52 ° 18 ′ 50.2 " N , 11 ° 36 ′ 11.5" E