St. Stephen (Helbra)

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View from the north
View from the gallery

The St. Stephanus Church is the Protestant church of Helbra ( Verbandsgemeinde Mansfelder Grund-Helbra ) in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in Saxony-Anhalt . It is under monument protection and is entered in the monument register with registration number 094 08178 as a monument .

location

The church is located in the center of Helbra and gives the surrounding streets Hinter der Kirche and Kirchstraße the name.

History and architecture

The oldest components are preserved in the tower and are assigned to the Romanesque . The main building fabric comes from the late Gothic , the plaster and most of the window frames from the Baroque period , to which the south-western vestibule is also attributed. A building inscription refers to the year 1745.

Interior and outfit

In the years from 1767 to 1772 the interior was equipped with a wooden barrel and a double gallery. The gallery was reduced to one storey in the 1950s. The painting dates from 1906.

The pulpit altar dates from 1760, a sacrament niche from 1556, the baptismal font from 1512 and a wooden crucifix from the 17th century. The oldest piece of equipment is the Gothic bell from 1486. ​​There are also historical tombstones from the 16th and 17th centuries in and on the church .

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony Anhalt II. Administrative districts Dessau and Halle. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03065-4 .
  • List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt , Volume 16.1, District Mansfeld-Südharz (I), Altkreis Eisleben, prepared by Anja Tietz and others, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg, ISBN 978-3-7319-0130-3 .

Web links

Commons : St. Stephen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Saxony-Anhalt (pdf) - answer of the state government to a small question for written answer (the MPs Olaf Meister and Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert; Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) - printed matter 6/3905 from March 19, 2015 (KA 6/8670)
  2. ↑ Dehio, p. 317. List of monuments, 16.1, p. 51.
  3. ↑ Dehio, pp. 317-318.

Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 27.2 "  N , 11 ° 29 ′ 31.9"  E