St. Peter and Paul (Seyda)
The Protestant Church of St. Peter and Paul is a listed church building in Seyda in the district of Wittenberg .
Building description
building
The field stone hall of the former Church of the Holy Cross dates from the 13th or 14th century. After a fire in 1708, the building was renovated between 1709 and 1711. The square west tower dates from 1854.
Interior and equipment
Inside the hall there is a segmented arched wooden barrel ceiling . The church's horseshoe gallery was probably built at the end of the 18th century. The high baroque pulpit altar, richly decorated with acanthus tendrils, with Last Supper relief, like the ceiling, dates from the years of the new construction around 1711 and is largely in its original condition. The pulpit is flanked by life-size carved figures of Peter and Paul , the arrangement of which is reversed. On the pediments are smaller than life size Moses and John the Evangelist who points to the crucifix in the middle. On the side of the altar there are two glass windows with depictions of Jesus in front of the door of the heart and the good shepherd. The classicistic, chalice-shaped baptism made of sandstone is dated to the late 18th century. The former patron's box dates from around 1730 and has a wooden gable top and a coat of arms painting. The organ of the church was built in 1883 by Conrad Geißler from Eilenburg.
Paintings and epitaphs
In the church there is a painting by pastor Johannes Zacharias Hillinger (1693–1770) from Chemnitz, dated and signed by Christian Lindner in 1772. Another portrait shows Luther and Melanchthon and was created in 1740 by Michael Adolf Siebehaar. A late baroque double epitaph made of sandstone was built for the bailiff Christian Friedrich Reinhardt and his wife. On the threshold of the nave there is a former grave slab from the second half of the 14th century with an incised drawing of a woman.
Others
Also under monument protection is the entrance to the churchyard as an archway with gate drive and gate from 1796.
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments , Saxony Anhalt II, administrative districts of Dessau and Halle. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-422-03065-4 , page 788
Coordinates: 51 ° 52 ′ 56.9 " N , 12 ° 54 ′ 15.8" E