Blankenburg village church

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Blankenburg village church in 1834
Blankenburg village church (2007)

The village church Blankenburg from the middle of the 13th century stands on the village meadow in today's Berlin district of Blankenburg of the Pankow district in the middle of the cemetery , which is surrounded by a late medieval wall made of field stones . She is one of more than 50 under monument protection standing village churches in Berlin .

history

The Angersdorf emerged as the neighboring villages in the second quarter of the 13th century. In the land book of Charles IV , the noble von Röbel family, who lived in Buch and who kept their share in Blankenburg until 1664, are named as owners. Later, the patrician families of Berlin acquired Blankenburg. From 1710 to 1818 Blankenburg was a Vorwerk royal domain .

architecture

The village church only received its final shape over the course of several centuries. The thick walls of the nave in the west of the late Romanesque rectangular hall church made of field stone blocks form the oldest construction phase. It had small, arched windows and an arched south portal . After 1372, the ship was extended to the east from less carefully squared field stones ( construction seam ). The choir , which was not recognizable as such from the outside because it was ship-wide , apparently replaced a smaller, drawn-in choir. The nave received an additional ogival south portal. The gable roof , which was renewed in 1982, is uniform over the nave and choir. The square tower in the west made of less carefully squared field stones in the width of the nave with an ogival brick west portal is younger (after 1402-1405), recognizable by a construction seam. Around the middle of the 15th century the tower was raised; this part received white corner edges made of Rüdersdorfer limestone. In the 16./17. In the 19th century, the church received the sacristy attached to the northeast corner of the nave . It is located under the roof of the new roof . Around 1700 the tower was raised on the same floor plan with a plastered bell storey, in which there are three cast steel bells from 1920, with two sound openings on each side and a pyramid-shaped helmet with an octagonal lantern . The dilapidated bell storey was dismantled in 1939, and then it was pulled in again with only one sound opening each. As a temporary measure, it received an extremely flat sloping gable roof. In 1998 a slender pyramid roof was added to the tower.

During the renovation in 1884/1885, the Gothic windows were enlarged and provided with segment arches. In the oldest western part, a bricked-up late Romanesque window can still be seen on the north and south sides. The ogival south gate with soffits made of shaped bricks was walled up. The late Romanesque arched portal on the south wall was reopened for this. During the renovation 1938 to 1940 the two windows were walled up in the east wall of the choir, the pediment was plastered and received four slender pointed arch blind , of which the two in the middle of the lateral overhang.

Furnishing

In 1960–1963 the interior of the church was renovated. It received a newer wooden beam ceiling . On the gallery on the west side is the organ from 1975, built by Jehmlich Orgelbau Dresden .

The baroque pieces of equipment in front of whitewashed walls are:

Literature (chronological)

  • Kurt Pomplun : Berlin's old village churches. Berlin 1962 (6th edition 1984).
  • Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephani: Evangelical churches in Berlin. Berlin 1978.
  • Ernst Badstübner , Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger: Churches in Berlin. Berlin 1987.
  • Institute for Monument Preservation: The architectural and art monuments in the GDR - capital Berlin II. Berlin 1987.
  • Old Berlin village churches. Heinrich Wohler's drawings , ed. v. Renate and Ernst Oskar Petras, Berlin 1988.
  • Markus Cante: Churches until 1618 , in: Berlin and its buildings, Part VI: Sacred buildings. Ed .: Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin , Berlin 1997, p. 334.
  • Matthias Friske : The medieval churches on the Barnim. History - architecture - equipment , Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2001 (churches in rural areas, vol. 1), ISBN 3-931836-67-3
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments (volume Berlin ). Munich / Berlin 2006.

Web links

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Coordinates: 52 ° 35 ′ 35.1 ″  N , 13 ° 27 ′ 13.9 ″  E