St. Wenceslas (Barnstädt)

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St. Wenceslas in Barnstädt

St. Wenzel is a listed Protestant church in the municipality of Barnstädt in Saxony-Anhalt . In the local register of monuments it is listed as a monument under registration number 094 05899 .

church

The exact date of construction of the church, which stands on a hill and is dedicated to St. Wenceslas , is unknown. A yellow sandstone in the tower with the year 1172 could indicate a previous building. In essence, it is a late Gothic construction of which was maintained for the 54-meter square West Tower the particularity of the winding verschieferte is top. There is a groin vault on the first floor of the tower, and late Gothic tracery windows on the bell floor .

In 1748 the church was rebuilt, so that today's appearance is characterized by the baroque . The large rectangular ship with the stuccoed hollow ceiling with banding comes from this year . Two-storey wooden galleries were built into the longitudinal walls . The wooden pulpit altar and the chalice-shaped baptismal font are also from the 18th century. Two portraits of pastors from the same period in the sacristy are remarkable.

The large organ from 1750/1751 was made in the organ building workshop of Johann Christoph Mocker in Roßleben , the prospectus shows angels making music and ornamented cheeks .

The ringing of four bronze bells is also significant, two of which date from the Middle Ages (12th / 13th centuries) and are among the oldest surviving church bells in Central Germany .

A larger cemetery used to surround the church; Of these, some baroque and classicist tombstones have been preserved on the church wall. There are also three monuments among them.

Monuments

Lutherstein

In one of reddish sandstone existing stele west of the church is, according to the book monuments of history and nature of the region Querfurt of 1933 to a Luther stone . The stele is influenced by the Baroque and was probably built in the 18th century in honor of Martin Luther . The inscription on the stele is no longer legible. The exact date of the erection of the monument is not known.

War memorial Franco-German War

A war memorial was erected in Barnstädt in 1872 to commemorate those who fell in the Franco-German War . It is a stele . The inscriptions on the stele are no longer legible today.

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 . P. 48.

Web links

Commons : St. Wenzel (Barnstädt)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt
  2. ^ Lutherstein Barnstädt , Saalekreis im Bild, accessed on February 6, 2018
  3. ↑ St. Wenzel (Barnstädt) , Saalekreis im Bild, accessed on February 6, 2018
  4. ^ Franco-German War (Barnstädt) , Saalekreis im Bild, accessed on February 6, 2018

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 43.5 "  N , 11 ° 38 ′ 43.7"  E