St. Wenceslas (Lettin)
The listed Evangelical Church of St. Wenceslas is located in the former village of Lettin , today a district in the Lettin district, West district of Halle (Saale) . The parish belongs to the parish area Dölau / Lieskau / Lettin / Heide-Nord in the parish of Halle-Saalkreis of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany . The church is listed in the monument register of the city of Halle under registration number 094 04836.
history
The origin of the town of Lettin, incorporated in 1950, goes back to the Slavic settlement of the area in the 7th and 8th centuries. At the beginning of the 9th century, for strategic reasons , the Franks built a fort at an elevated point on the bank of the Saale . It is no longer possible to trace when the first wooden church was built here at that time.
The current building, dedicated to Saint Wenceslas of Bohemia, was probably built in the second half of the 12th century. The rectangular Romanesque hall with west transverse tower testifies to this in particular . Inside, some of the late Gothic furnishings have been preserved.
From the last third of the 17th century, the building was baroque . So around 1680 the nave was extended to the north and large rectangular windows were added. In 1714/1715 the church was given a polygonal choir and an organ in the 19th century .
In 1992 and 1993 the exterior masonry, the windows and the acoustic arcades of the church were renewed . The more recent southern porch with today's entrance was renovated in 1998.
Architecture and equipment
The Romanesque character of the church can still be seen well from the sound openings in the form of the double arcade on the bell floor of the tower. The small Romanesque windows and a gate that is now walled up on the north facade are still present, as is a double arcade inside between the tower and the nave.
The nave spans a coffered wooden ceiling. An L-shaped circumferential wooden gallery with a cycle of pictures by Tobias Knopf from 1683 depicts scenes from the Old Testament and the Passion . Tobias Knopf probably also created the epitaph with the Last Judgment, painted around 1680 .
The late Gothic, colored wooden sculpture of St. Wenceslas as a knight from around 1500 next to the entrance to the church is remarkable.
The carved altar from the last third of the 15th century comes from the same workshop as the altar of the church in Dölau . In the shrine Mary is depicted with eight saints, the 12 apostles on the wings . The back is painted with the Annunciation . The sacrament niche with a late Gothic architectural frame can be dated to the same time.
A larger-than-life crucifix and a panel with the Resurrection of Christ , the remarkable work of a Dutch-influenced master from Central Germany, have survived from the first half of the 16th century .
The sandstone baptism in an octagonal cup shape dates from 1715; the brass bowl from 1643.
The organ from 1860 on the west gallery was made in the workshop of August Ferdinand Wäldner in Halle.
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 . Pp. 307-308.
- State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt / City of Halle. Fly Head Publishing, Halle 1996, ISBN 3-910147-62-3 , p. 242.
- Peggy Grötschel, Matthias Behne: The churches in the city of Halle. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2006, ISBN 3-89812-352-9 , pp. 136-137.
Web links
- Church Lettin On: Evangelical Church Dölau-Lieskau / Lettin . Retrieved June 20, 2020
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 31.3 " N , 11 ° 54 ′ 29.3" E