Village church Schlamau, Lutheran church in Schlamau, Germany
Dorfkirche Schlamau is a late Romanesque fieldstone church standing centrally on the village green. Its nave measures 11.45 m by 8.40 m, followed by a choir 5.20 m long and 5.80 m wide, and an apse enclosed since 1746 by a rectangular burial vault. A square roof turret clad in slate, topped by a pyramidal roof with a cross and two stars, rises above the west gable.
A fieldstone church was built in Schlamau in the 13th century, possibly as early as the second half of the 12th, and was probably the parish church by 1459. In 1701 Hans Friedrich and August Friedrich Brand von Lindau had it extensively renewed, adding a roof turret and enlarging openings; a sacristy and a burial vault followed around 1744–1746. The bell of 1469 was recast and enlarged in 1824, and renovations took place in 1868 and 1996.
The village of Schlamau was first recorded in 1388 as Slamowe; the church's name simply follows the village. Inside, the pulpit panels show Baroque paintings of the Evangelists from the first half of the 18th century, reused from an older pulpit, and the gallery parapet depicts Christ and eight apostles. A late Gothic carved figure of a bishop and an oak offering box dated 1701 stand near the entrance.
The church stands in the middle of the village green, reached by the street Schlamau that crosses the green from the west. The churchyard is enclosed by a wall of unhewn fieldstones. The only entrance is a rectangular door on the south side of the nave, reached by a paved path; the west portal is walled up.
The tower bell dates from 1469; it was recast and enlarged in 1824. Inside, the pulpit panels show Baroque paintings of the Evangelists from the first half of the 18th century, reused from an older pulpit. A late Gothic carved figure of a bishop and an oak offering box with fittings from 1701 are also kept.
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