St. Petri (Stegelitz)

Sankt-Petri-Kirche from the southeast

Saint Peter's Church

Sankt Petri is the Protestant church in the village of Stegelitz in Saxony-Anhalt . The church in the center of the village is on the " Romanesque Road ".

Architecture and history

The nave consists of a field stone hall , to which a square choir and a semicircular apse , each with a different width, are added to the east . Its origin goes back to the late Romanesque of the 12th century.

In the years 1721 to 1727 the church was renovated and rebuilt. During this time, a baroque sacristy was added to the north of the choir , which has a groin vault inside . The base of the church consists of carefully crafted granite masonry . A walled-in Romanesque portal can be seen on the north side of the nave. The nave and choir have pointed arched windows, probably from the 19th century, and are closed off by a gable roof.

A square lattice tower with a tail roof and an octagonal lantern was erected over the west gable in the 18th or early 19th century . This so-called Welsche hood is covered with slate. The half- man figure can be found in the framework .

Furnishing

In the church, the nave and choir have a round triumphal arch. The interior of the nave is spanned by a flat ceiling. It is decorated with simply designed circular fields. The baroque altarpiece, made around 1740, is decorated with two paintings showing the Last Supper and the Crucifixion and bears the coat of arms of Werner von Wulffen and his wife Henriette Sophie von Wulffen , née von Platen . The wooden pulpit with its baroque ornaments originally stood on a pulpit bearer figure depicting an angel and was created in 1701. Both parts are now separate from each other in the church. In addition, there are several baroque sculptures in the church, some of which are probably also from the pulpit. Including a triumphant Christ, John the Baptist, Moses and angels. The hexagonal, chalice-shaped baptismal font from the Baroque period was made from Rübeland marble. The originally even richer baroque furnishings were partially removed and sold in the course of a "repair" carried out in 1964/1965.

Within the apse are still in the Middle Ages derived sacrament niches received. One of located on the southern wall of the nave marble manufactured Trophäenepitaph for 1743 late W. von Wulffen .

The brick portal to the churchyard, made in the 16th century, is remarkable.

Hartmann organ

The organ on the west gallery of the Sankt-Petri-Kirche was created in 1748 by the organ builder and Silbermann student Johann Georg Hartmann from Magdeburg. Your Rococo - brochure was carved out of pine and basswood. The alliance coat of arms of the von Wulffen and von Ledebur families is on the prospectus . The balustrade of the organ gallery on the west side is curved and rests on Tuscan columns. The instrument has 13 registers on a manual and pedal, as well as a cymbal star as an effect register. The mechanism of a bell-shaped carillon has also been created, the bells of which must be reconstructed. In 1997 the organ was extensively restored and is a listed building. It sounds among other things in the Stegelitz Organ Summer .

Manuals C, D – c ³
1.	Principal	4 ′
2.	Dumped	8th'
3.	Quintadehna	8th'
4th	Pointed floite	4 ′
5.	Quinta	3 ′
6th	Octav	2 ′

(Continuation)
7th	Great Octave	1'
8th.	Mixture IV
9.	Clarine	8th'
	Tremulant
	Cymbelstern
	Shell glockenspiel (vacant)

Pedal C, D – d ¹
10.	Sub bass	16 ′
11.	Octav	8th'
12.	Octav	4 ′
13.	trombone	16 ′

Coupling : Pedal coupling

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 876