St. Petri (Seehausen)
The Protestant town church St. Petri Seehausen is a town church in the brick Gothic style in Seehausen (Altmark) . It belongs to the Stendal parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
In the landscape of the Altmärkische Wische, shaped by the Elbe, the St. Petri Church is visible from afar as a landmark. The church gained importance as the administrative seat of the Diocese of Verden , later as the provost office of the St. Nikolaus monastery in Beuster .
History and architecture
The three-aisled cruciform basilica from the late 12th century, originally made of field stone, was extended in the early 13th century by a double-towered west building in brick masonry. The Westbau shows in the central axis of a magnificent round arch portal columns, the jambs are constructed in brick and Haustein. It is hidden in a vestibule in front of the west building in 1486.
The portal, created in 1220, achieved its impressive effect with a rare use of materials, designed as a brick stepped portal with sandstone set Gewändesäulen . Each capital has its own appearance depending on the stone and processing. The capitals thus form the framework for the ornamental block capitals made of sandstone, which end with a continuously profiled fighter zone. In the archivolts , the change of material is continued with ornate brick arches and sandstone bulge arches. The portal , as a sign of meaning, is the image for the entrance to paradise , the entrance to the church as the “city of God” in the “ heavenly Jerusalem ”.
In the 2nd quarter of the 15th century, it was converted into a three-aisled hall church by around 1470. The building material is the versatile, malleable brick . Field stones from the previous building were used in the bases of the outer walls . The triumphal arch of the old nave was preserved as a turning point.
The outer walls of the hall church are decorated with tracery strips made of shaped stones and a tracery frieze under the main cornice , following the example of the Johanniskirche in Werben . Similar to the Stendal Cathedral , two window axes in the side aisles are combined to form a central nave yoke. This creates five-part ribbed vaults in the side aisles. Strong round pillars support the dividing arches between the side aisles and the central nave in the nave.
The towers were raised at about the same time as the conversion to a hall church and completed with pointed helmets in 1481. The pointed helmets were destroyed by lightning in 1676 and replaced by the curved hoods with lanterns and four low corner towers by 1678, the current height of both towers has been 62 m since then. On the top floors of the west building there is a 45 m tower house .
The three-aisled nave of the hall church with three and a half bays is followed by the lower choir, built after 1470, the last bay of which closes with a single nave with a five-sided polygon. The aisles of the choir are closed with their own roofs. A sacristy with a gallery above was built into the eastern yoke of the southern choir aisle. The three-aisled vestibule from 1486, which was built in front of the west building in full width and was later divided into three rooms by partition walls, marks the completion of the construction work. Restorations took place in the years 1933/34, 1952 to 1956 (reduction of the galleries) and 1973 to 1977 (renewal of the roofs).
Furnishing
The main piece of equipment is a carved altar from the beginning of the 16th century with strong plastic reliefs, which shows a large crucifixion in the middle and six smaller passion scenes to the side. The figurative, dramatically moving representations are probably of Dutch origin. They were redesigned in 1868 and placed in a uniform neo-Gothic housing. A copy of the Last Supper painting by Leonardo da Vinci was inserted in the predella .
The wooden pulpit from 1710 is decorated with acanthus carvings. The basket is carried by a carved figure of John the Baptist; the stair parapet is enriched with figures of the twelve apostles in arched niches. The crown-like sound cover with Christ as the judge of the world completes the equipment. What is remarkable is the illusionistic representation of angels flying around with banners. A sandstone epitaph of Mayor J. Gratz, who died in 1617, and his wife, depicted in period costume as a bas-relief, should also be mentioned.
The baptismal font is made of bronzed cast zinc in the shape of a fifth 1868. The surface is covered with neo-Gothic tracery - relief provided. She stands in front of the steps of the sanctuary. A late Gothic bronze bell from 1528 comes from the former St. Georg hospital church.
organ
The organ was built in 1867 by Friedrich Hermann Lütkemüller from Wittstock. It has 44 registers , divided into three manuals and pedal , as well as a mechanical playing and register system and is the largest still preserved organ of this organ builder. After extensive, long-term restoration and return to its original state, the instrument has been sounding again in the characteristic timbres of Romanticism since 2014 . This restoration was funded by the Orgelklang Foundation.
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Pairing :
- Manual I - Manual II
- Manual I - Manual III
- Pedal - Manual I
- Secondary register and playing aids: 4 shut-off valves
literature
- Walter May: City churches in Saxony / Anhalt. 1st edition. Evangelical Publishing House, Berlin 1979.
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony Anhalt I. District of Magdeburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , pp. 854–856.
- Thomas Hartwig: All Altmark churches from A to Z . Elbe-Havel-Verlag, Havelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-9814039-5-4 , p. 442-443 .
- Church leader of the St. Petri Church in Seehausen / Altmark
Web links
- Website of the parish of St. Petri Seehausen
- The parish church of St. Petri in 170 pictures
- Association of Friends and Patrons of St. Petri Church in Seehausen (Altmark) eV
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the city of Seehausen. Retrieved August 27, 2017 .
- ^ Directory of the organs funded by the Orgelklang Foundation. Retrieved October 24, 2018 .
- ↑ Information about the organ on Orgbase.nl. Retrieved April 28, 2019 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 53 ′ 23 " N , 11 ° 45 ′ 14" E