Schmargendorf village church (Berlin)
The village church Schmargendorf is the church of the Protestant community Alt-Schmargendorf. It is located in the Berlin district of Schmargendorf in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district on the corner of Breite Strasse and Kirchstrasse . The church dates from the end of the 13th century and was the only church in Schmargendorf until 1929. With a floor area of 66 square meters and space for around 80 people, it is the smallest of the surviving Berlin village churches . The Alt-Schmargendorf cemetery is located in the immediate vicinity of the church .
history
Construction documents for the construction of the village church Schmargendorf no longer exist. Construction began around 1280. The south-east corner of the church is aligned with the otherwise regular floor plan. Its lower half differs from the rest of the masonry in its more careful ashlar, which is typical of the 13th century. The first construction phase can be seen in it. The building is an early Gothic 16 m × 7.8 m rectangular hall made of field stones . Up to the eaves level , the walls consist of ashlars , in the west gable of uncut field stones. The room was covered by a simple, steep pitched roof .
The service in the church was the Latin mass of the Roman Catholic Church . With the Reformation on November 1, 1539, the Brandenburg Elector Joachim II turned to Protestantism , with which the farmers and their village church also became Protestant.
During the Thirty Years' War , seven members of the von Wilmersdorff family died , who at that time owned the village of Schmargendorf. They were buried in the village church. The coffins of the deceased were rediscovered in 1937 during installation work for a heater, and the historically valuable finds in the form of grave goods and pieces of jewelry were handed over to the Märkisches Museum . A plaque in the interior of the church still commemorates Hans and Eva von Wilmersdorf and their son who were buried there .
It was not until 1831 that the building received a small roof turret in half-timbered construction on its western gable , which has been clad with boards since 1957. The two bells in it are from the 14th / 15th centuries. Century. One of the bells is a so-called “cum-pace bell”: It bears the Latin inscription O rex glorie Christie veni cum pace (“Oh King of Glory Christ come with peace”).
The first stalls came into the church in the 19th century - until then, people stood and kneeled while praying.
At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, the church was subject to major changes. In 1895, the master builder Heinrich Otto Hoffmann from neighboring Friedenau built a barrel vault into the church, moved the entrance to the north side and enlarged some windows. A large winged altar was set up in the interior . However, the changes were viewed as unfortunate and as early as 1937 to 1939, under the direction of Gustav Wolf and then Walter Peschke, the building was largely restored to its original early Gothic condition. The interior received simple fixtures - altar, pulpit and baptismal font. A flat wooden beam ceiling was laid out again, which the church painter Paul Thol decorated with oval pictures from the life of the Savior as well as flowers, birds and Christian symbols in the style of peasant painting. These paintings have faded strongly over the years and can only be perceived as shadows. The church received the baroque crucifix from around 1700 from the stocks of the Märkisches Museum in exchange for the grave goods mentioned above. Remnants of the renovations, such as the walled-up north entrance, are still visible. The wooden construction for the barrel vault is also still visible in the roof structure.
In 1970 the village church received a new organ from organ builder Dieter Noeske with 14 registers , which was inaugurated on December 20, 1970. Your disposition can be viewed in the organ database . The expanded Schuke organ in Potsdam was rebuilt in the community hall and is still used there.
An extensive restoration of the church took place between 1990 and 1992, but it was mainly of a preservative character and did not affect the appearance of the church.
environment
The village church Schmargendorf was built in the middle of the street green village . However, it was not, as is usually the case with other Brandenburg villages, in the center of Angerm, but in the southern outskirts. The village's extinguishing water pond was in front of the church . In 1896 the pond was filled in and a small green area was created, in the center of which a monument to Kaiser Wilhelm I designed by Hans Arnoldt was erected . The solemn inauguration of the monument took place on May 10, 1896.
Most of the green area with the monument, which is no longer considered to be contemporary, has given way to the widening of the carriageways in the post-war period .
Night shot of the street side of the church
Remains of the ceiling painting from the 1930s
Interior in today's design
Village church and Löschwasserteich around 1880
Village church and school building with a monument to Kaiser Wilhelm I in 1899
literature
- The old village church / landmark of our Schmargendorf. In: District Office Wilmersdorf of Berlin (ed.): 750 years of Schmargendorf. Verlag für Heimatgeschichte Rimbach & Poser, Berlin 1955, pp. 17–20 (commemorative publication on the occasion of the city's anniversary).
- Karl-Heinz Metzger: Churches, mosques and synagogues in Wilmersdorf. District Office Wilmersdorf, Berlin 1986, pp. 22-26.
- Kurt Pomplun : Berlin's old village churches (= Berlin kaleidoscope, writings on Berlin art and cultural history. Vol. 3). 6th edition. Haude & Spener, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-7759-0261-9 , pp. 83-84.
Web links
- The village church of the Evangelical Parish Alt-Schmargendorf
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- Village church Alt-Schmargendorf (Protestant) in the district lexicon on berlin.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Markus Cante: Churches until 1618. In: Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin (ed.): Berlin and its buildings. Part VI: Sacred buildings. Ernst, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-433-01016-1 , p. 338.
- ^ Kurt Pomplun: Berlins old village churches (= writings on Berlin art and cultural history. Vol. 3). 1st edition, Hessling, Berlin 1962, p. 84.
- ^ Kurt Pomplun: Berlin's old village churches. Berlin 1962, p. 83.
- ↑ Festschrift: 750 Years of Schmargendorf. Berlin 1955, p. 20.
- ↑ Horst Hoppe: data on the history of Schmargendorf. In: Wilmersdorf History Working Group (Ed.): Schmargendorf . Edition Berlin in Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-932482-96-4 , p. 12.
- ↑ K.-H. Butchers: Churches, mosques and synagogues in Wilmersdorf. Berlin 1986, p. 24.
- ^ Organ database
- ↑ Information board in front of the church
Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 25.7 " N , 13 ° 17 ′ 38.4" E
