Blankenfelde village church (Berlin)

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East facade of the Blankenfelde village church with late Gothic decorations

The village church Blankenfelde is a stone church in Berlin . The village church, located in what is now the Blankenfelde part of the Pankow district , is on the corner of Hauptstrasse and Schildower Strasse, in the middle of the cemetery surrounded by a wall . It was created around 1406 and is one of more than 50 under monument protection standing village churches in Berlin .

history

Blankenfelde village church

In the course of the settlement of Barnim , Blankenfelde was laid out by Low German settlers around 1230 as a street green village on the road from Berlin to Oranienburg . In 1375 Blankenfelde had 54 hooves according to Charles IV's land book , four of which were parish hooves and one church hoof. The village church was probably still a wooden church at that time. The late Gothic church made of mixed masonry was built around 1406 ( dendrodating ). Since the village on the Old Bernauer Heerweg was devastated during the Thirty Years War , it can be assumed that the church was also destroyed. In 1680 the church was rebuilt (the windows enlarged) and expanded. It received a southern extension with a patronage box . In addition to the Grumbkow / Grote alliance coat of arms, it bears an inscription about the builder Joachim Ernst von Grumbkow . The roof received a new horizontal roof structure and a roof tower . The medieval state was largely reconstructed in 1938–1941 . The east gable, richly decorated with panels, is remarkable . There are also old walled-up windows to be seen.

architecture

The masonry of the hall church is made of field stones. During the restoration in 1938–1941, the windows from the Baroque period on the side walls were restored to their old early Gothic form, with an acute angle in the upper part. The soffits were like the edges of buildings with large-sized bricks in Klosterformat hemmed. The sloping gables were made lower. Of the originally five staggered panels with pointed arches in the eastern gable triangle , the two on the side were walled up and the remaining three were changed by segmental arches . The three bricked-up Gothic windows below were reopened. The gable roof over the beamed ceiling is covered with beaver tail . The roof tower, made of timber-clad half-timbering, is "saddled" to the structure, so it does not have its own foundation walls. The bell was cast by Johann Friedrich Thiele in 1768. The helmet was not given its current shape until 1939. It consists of the stump of a pyramid roof , which continues in an eight-sided, pointed tent roof . The weather vane dates from 1982 and is based on the one from 1680. In 1996 it was covered with slate . The southern extension has been changed. Its gate was framed with ashlar and keystone . The roof was set lower so that the eaves no longer run at the same height as that of the nave.

Furnishing

A tombstone, which was originally located in front of the altar above an empty crypt , is now attached to the north side of the church. It bears the inscription “ Hereditary burial of those von Grumbkow”. Joachim Ernst von Grumbkow was buried on his manor Ruhnow in Pomerania .

The ceiling lights in the altar area date from 1854, as do the church stalls and the wine jug and the goblet with paten . The old baroque altarpiece disappeared in 1961. The interior has a wooden beam ceiling and galleries on the west and south sides. The parapet and the Schuke - Organ with its prospectus on the south gallery are from the conversion time from 1939 to 1941. Below and on the west gallery and behind the organ on the south gallery were set up from 1972 to 1974 community spaces.

literature

  • Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part VI. Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997.
  • Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephani: Evangelical churches in Berlin. Berlin 1978.
  • Kurt Pomplun: Berlin's old village churches. Berlin 1984.
  • Hans-Jürgen Rach: The villages in Berlin. Berlin 1990.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Munich / Berlin 2006 (Band Berlin).
  • Ernst Badstübner , Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger: Churches in Berlin. Berlin 1987.

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Berlin-Blankenfelde  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 37 '7.9 "  N , 13 ° 23' 22.9"  E