Alt-Tegel village church

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West facade of the Tegel village church

The Protestant village church Alt-Tegel is a church in the Berlin district of Tegel in the Reinickendorf district and parish of the same name . The currently existing church was built in 1911/1912; Before that, however, there were already three previous buildings on this site, the history of which can be traced back to the Middle Ages .

Previous buildings

The square-like cul - de - sac village of Tegel, founded around 1240, was first mentioned in a document in 1322 as a church village on the occasion of the union of the parishes of Tegel and Dalldorf , the latter becoming the mother church of Tegel. The Tegel branch church did not become an independent church again until 1894. In the land book of Charles IV (1375) four parish hooves were identified for Tegel . It can be assumed that the village got a wooden church as soon as possible after 1240, on the plaza-like extension of the place. Nothing is known about their appearance.

Baroque village church in the middle of the village around 1790

The pastor of Dalldorf, Schlüter, wrote in 1714 about his Tegel branch church: "The church is very small, small and made of wood with a poor clay wall." It is unclear whether this was still a medieval building. In 1724 Friedrich Wilhelm I had building materials available for the construction of a half-timbered church . This was replaced by a solid stone structure as early as 1756: a rectangular hall with structured plastered facades, arched windows and a square west tower with a pyramid helmet. This hall church was completely rebuilt in 1871/1872, but was soon replaced in 1911 in favor of an urban-looking church.

Current church

Tegel village church (built in 1911) from the northeast

The existing church in neo-Romanesque forms was built in 1911/1912 according to plans by Jürgen Kröger . It is a three-aisled nave with a central nave -wide apse and a tower -like tower. The masonry is plastered ; the decorative and structuring parts are made of sandstone . The bronze door with symmetrical ornamentation comes from the metalsmith Ottomar Holde Fleiss and was in the 2010s by the company Fittkau metal and ironwork restored.

The open entrance hall is a three-arched arcade with side-mounted stair turrets. The interior is divided into three yokes arched , has on the longitudinal sides galleries another and at the input side for the organ . Your disposition can be viewed at the Organ Database . The church offers 600 seats and cost around 170,000 marks in 1912  (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 904,000 euros).

Alt-Tegel churchyard

Tomb of Wilhelmine Anna Susanne von Holwede

In the immediate vicinity of the church there are a number of old tombs that still belong to the old churchyard of the village church, which was laid out in the 15th century and closed in 1874. In addition, the war memorial “The Victims of Wars and Violence” was erected on the south side of the church , to commemorate the fallen of the world wars 1914–1918 and 1939–1945.

In the north-east there is a single tomb, which is crowned with a marble urn and decorated with a tablet with a portrait medallion. Wilhelmine Anne Susanne von Holwede , née Colomb, the sister of Marie-Elisabeth von Humboldt and thus the aunt of the famous brothers Wilhelm von Humboldt and Alexander von Humboldt , was buried here.

Further graves of people who worked in the church and community are on the south side. These include, for example, the memorial stone of the village chronicler August Wietholz (* May 31, 1869 - March 17, 1949) and the grave of the local politician Johann August Friedrich Wilke (* August 1, 1811; † July 25, 1874).

literature

  • August Wietholz: History of the Protestant Church at Tegel from its foundation to the present. Berlin 1912.
  • August Wietholz: History of the village and Tegel Castle in three parts. Berlin 1922.
  • Markus Cante: Churches until 1618. In: Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin (Ed.): Sacral buildings. (= Berlin and its buildings , part VI.) Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-433-01016-1 , pp. 356, 393.
  • Klaus Hammer: Historic cemeteries & tombs in Berlin. Stattbuch Verlag, Berlin 1994. ISBN 3-922778-32-1 .
  • Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spenersche Verlagbuchhandlung, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-7759-0476-X .

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Alt-Tegel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ View of the two-winged church door on flickr.com.
  2. ↑ Information on the organ
  3. ↑ The Colomb sisters had married the brothers Victor Ludwig Heinrich and Friedrich Ernst von Holwede.

Coordinates: 52 ° 35 ′ 17 ″  N , 13 ° 16 ′ 38 ″  E