St. Petri (castle)
Sankt Petri is a Protestant church in Burg (near Magdeburg) in Saxony-Anhalt .
History and architecture
The building made of field stones was built in the early 13th century. A first documentary mention comes from the year 1355. After the Reformation , the church was initially not used and became desolate. From 1674 it served as a brewery . In 1691 it began to be used as a reformed church. The square roof turret with lantern , octagonal hood and curved helmet was created during this time . In the eastern wall of the choir there is a three-part window group, with the middle window being walled up.
The sacristy in neo-Gothic style was probably built in 1881/1882 as part of a repair work on the entire building. It was added as an extension to the east of the choir. During this time the interior of the church was renewed. In particular, the former north portal was converted into a window and the western entrance was created. The window reveals were renewed with bricks, whereby the windows were already a little ogival before.
The interior of the church is flat. The furnishings are uniform in the neo-Gothic style from around 1880. The altar block is in front of the triumphal arch. In front of the east wall of the choir is a polygonal pulpit , which has small corner pillars on the pulpit and the support. In addition to the pulpit in the late classicist of the Elector-style medallion reliefs Frederick William and the Prussian King Frederick I attached. The horseshoe gallery in the church stands on cast iron columns with cube capitals.
The organ was built in 1882 by Wilhelm Sauer from Frankfurt (Oder) . Noteworthy is an epitaph for Samuel Otto, who died in 1758 . In the church there is also a baroque inscription tombstone from 1711. A similar tombstone from 1750 stands outside.
literature
- Folkhard Cremer: Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony-Anhalt I, Magdeburg District , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , p. 138 f.
- Dietmar Möschner: Churches in the Evangelical Church District Elbe-Fläming , Burg (near Magdeburg) 2003, ISBN 3-9809011 , p. 16
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Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 19.1 ″ N , 11 ° 51 ′ 18.6 ″ E