St. Barnabas, Lutheran church building in Lübars, Möckern, Germany.
St. Barnabas is a late Romanesque hall church built of rough grey and brown fieldstone, with a rectangular west tower, a short nave of the same width, an inset square choir and a semicircular apse. The tower has two small arched openings near its top and a narrow slit window lower down; the nave's side wall has two arched windows with reddish brick surrounds, and a lean-to section stands at the far left.
The church is a late Romanesque fieldstone hall building with a complete layout: rectangular west tower, short nave of the same width, recessed square choir and semicircular apse. The round arch of the southern priest's door was partly renewed in brick. A tomb chapel for Georg Friedrich von Wulffen (died 1731) with a volute gable was added to the south side of the tower, and a stilted-arch churchyard portal from the early 16th century survives.
The church is also called St. Barnabas and belongs to the parish of Lübars in the Möckern parish area of the Elbe-Fläming church district. Inside, the choir behind a glazed partition serves as a winter church, so services can be held in a smaller heated space in cold months.
The church stands in Lübars, a district of Möckern in the Jerichower Land, and is reached on foot from the village. The choir was fitted with a glazed partition and serves as a winter church, so the heated area is smaller in cold months. Contact the parish of Möckern in the Elbe-Fläming church district of the EKMD before travelling to view the interior.
The church is built of rough fieldstone, not brick; only the arch of the southern priest's portal was partly renewed in brick. On the south side of the tower stands a burial vault for Georg Friedrich von Wulffen (died 1731), topped by a volute gable crowned with a Man of Sorrows.
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