St. Trinity (Genthin)
Sankt Trinitatis is the Protestant town church of Genthin in Saxony-Anhalt . The baroque three-aisled hall church is located directly on the market square and is a landmark of the city.
history
The previous building, a Romanesque stone church, was demolished in 1699 due to the poor structural condition. The new church was built in the years 1707–1722 according to plans by the Magdeburg master builder Georg Preußer. The official inauguration took place on Trinity in 1722 without the tower, which was only completed later. This was bricked up to the level of the church roof and provisionally covered. The construction of the church was very slow for financial reasons. The west tower, designed by Gottfried Meinicke from Magdeburg, could not be completed until 1769–1772. The different dating of furnishings makes it clear that the church was only gradually completed. The baptismal font shows the year 1730, a bell dates from 1763 and the tower clock, which shows the time on all four sides, was delivered in 1776. The organ did not enter the church until 1798.
“Since the church treasury only had 800 Reichstaler holdings, it was decided to procure the missing funds through requested private and general collections as well as grants from the state treasury of the Königshau. While the Genthiner citizens showed spendierfreudig who pointed Prussian king "Such a dump is to be a bell tower built for 100 Reichstaler." ... Only under his successor: the envisaged subsidy of 1,000 Reichstaler with the following abschlägigen reasoning on an application filed tower plan drawing back Frederick II. Was the state approved the construction of the tower and the cost of the tower construction was taken over by the state treasury, so that work continued on September 4, 1770 with the bell transport to the tower and the church building was finally completed in 1772 with the installation of the tower dome. "
In 1965 a heated winter church was installed in the west tower . The entrance from the west tower was blocked and could no longer be used.
In 2007, an additional modern functional extension was built between the church and Großer Schulstrasse, consisting of two massive structures on a square floor plan with a flat roof, which are connected by a glazed foyer . The functional extension is called the "Young Church".
In 2008 the winter church was rebuilt with the installation of new glass partition walls so that the main entrance on the west tower is accessible again.
Description and equipment
The large, simple hall church is a three-aisled plastered brick building with a choir closed on three sides. The outer facade is structured along the axes by windows and pillars. The interior of the ship is spanned by dome-shaped groin vaults on round-arched partition and belt arches over cross piers. The west tower on a square floor plan is structured with several circumferential cornices and has a metal-covered curved hood with an open lantern at the end .
In the nave are circumferentially galleries installed. The entire equipment is kept simple in color and achieves its effect primarily through the design.
The choir is dominated by the two-storey wooden altarpiece (around 1720). The entablature with a blown gable is placed on fluted columns with Corinthian capitals . Next to the pillars are life-size female allegorical figures - "Faith" and "Love". The arched altarpiece shows the Sermon on the Mount . The figure of the risen Christ rises above a transverse oval painting of Christ's Entombment in the pediment .
The four-sided pulpit dates from the first half of the 18th century . The representations of the apostles , which were placed on the pulpit and pulpit staircase as figurative decorations, were partly stolen in 2001.
Of the organ installed in 1798 , only the magnificently designed seven-part staggered organ prospectus by Johann Wilhelm Grüneberg from Brandenburg remains . In 1913 a new organ was installed, made by Wilhelm Rühlmann from Zörbig , which was rebuilt in 1938.
The stained glass windows on the south side were donated by Genthiner citizens in 1908 and show Petrus , Paulus and, above the gallery on the entrance side, Martin Luther .
literature
- E. Wernicke: Descriptive representation of the oldest architectural and art monuments of the districts Jerichow . 1898.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johann August Christoph von Eine: Brief description of the city of Genthin . Around 1800
- ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments, Saxony-Anhalt I, Magdeburg administrative region . Berlin and Munich 2002
- ^ Klaus Börner: The baroque church has a medieval predecessor . In: Genthiner Volksstimme , June 21, 2007
- ↑ Steffen Reichel: The new youth and community center at the St. Trinity Church . In: Genthiner Volksstimme , June 21, 2007
- ↑ Dietmar Möschner: churches in the Protestant parish of same-Fläming . Castle 2003
Web links
- St. Trinitatis on Stadt-Genthin.de
- St. Trinity: A City and its Church , Genthiner Volksstimme from December 1, 2011
- Evangelical parish Genthin with event schedule and church information
Coordinates: 52 ° 24 '24 " N , 12 ° 9' 27.1" E