City Church Jerichow
The Protestant town church Jerichow is a Romanesque brick church in the town of Jerichow in the district of Jerichower Land in Saxony-Anhalt . It belongs to the parish Jerichow in the parish Jerichow in the parish of Stendal in the Evangelical Church in Central Germany . Although it stands in the shadow of the monumental church of the Jerichow Monastery , it is also an important testimony to the brick Romanesque and a stop on the Romanesque Road .
History and architecture
The city church of Jerichow is a flat-roofed, single-nave brick building with a retracted, just closing choir, a western half-timbered roof tower from the 17th century and a neo-Romanesque polygonal sacristy extension in the west from 1833. The dendrochronological dating showed a date of origin of the choir of 1185 d, which means this Church is directly related to the local collegiate church.
The late Romanesque core building is 30 × 12.5 m in size. Following the example of the neighboring monastery church, it is clearly structured with a high beveled base, corner and wall pilasters , a round arch frieze and a tooth cut frieze that is largely covered by plastering . During a renovation in the Baroque period, the surrounding walls were slightly increased and the high-seated arched windows were partially extended, and oculi were added in the western part . A baroque arched portal on the north side, which was supposed to be built into a box, was walled up again.
In the interior, which was shaped by the baroque renovation, the pressed, pointed triumphal arch is preserved on profiled fighters . A heavy beamed ceiling completes the interior. Renovations and repairs were carried out in 1656, 1756 and 1991.
Furnishing
A wooden horseshoe-shaped gallery on partly ornamented columns from the 17th century, the parapet of which is painted with Bible verses, extends around the interior. A baroque table altar from around 1700 with carved feet has been preserved. A pulpit from the second quarter of the 18th century is attached to the triumphal arch. An organ by R. Voigt with a neo-renaissance prospect was installed in 1891.
In the choir there is a stately epitaph made of sandstone and alabaster for Melchior von Arnstedt († 1606) and Mrs. Katharina von Hünicke († 1600), which was made by Sebastian Ertle in Magdeburg. The console with the kneeling, deceased couple, carried by Turks, is decorated with a richly figured relief depicting the adoration of the child; above the resurrection is shown. In side niches and above the entablature, Moses and David, evangelists and apostles are depicted with angels and alliance coats of arms.
Mention should be made of three figural gravestones, the oldest in incised drawing for Mrs. Dorothea von Mandelslo from 1552 and the two relief gravestones with coats of arms for the married couple Melchior and Katharina von Arnstedt († 1606 and † 1600). An inscription tombstone from 1767 is on the east wall of the choir.
literature
- 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. 457–459.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Damian Kaufmann: The Romanesque brick village churches in the Altmark and in the Jerichower Land. Verlag Ludwig, Kiel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86935-018-9 , p. 175.
- ↑ Information from the Saxony-Anhalt Viewer of the State Office for Surveying and Geoinformation Saxony-Anhalt
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 47.8 " N , 12 ° 1 ′ 31.9" E