Falkenberg village church
The village church Falkenberg was a Gothic stone church in the then Mark Brandenburg in Falkenberg , belonging to Berlin since 1920 and since 2001 a district of the Lichtenberg district of Berlin. It stood in the middle of the cemetery on the north side of the village street.
Building history
The floor plan of the simple church, built with less carefully squared stone masonry, points to a construction period in the first half of the 14th century. The medieval church was accessible through a south portal. It was first mentioned in a document in 1375.
Major changes were made in 1795, and the eastern extension was probably added. It was not - as is often read - a retracted choir from the time it was built, otherwise it would have a long ridge instead of the tent roof . The whole building was plastered , so that a baroque impression was created, to which the enlarged lattice windows also contributed. The late Gothic vaults were removed, and the church received a massive, recessed, square west tower in classicist, Egyptian-style shapes, a fad after Napoleon's Egyptian campaign . Wohler's drawing from 1834 does not adequately reflect the uniqueness of the tower. A better picture can be found on the display board at the church. The weather vane bore the year 1795, the year of the renovation.
On April 21, 1945, the church, together with the neighboring village churches of Wartenberg and Malchow, was blown up by the Waffen SS shortly before the evacuation of the village in order to prevent the approaching Soviet army from placing artillery observers on the towers .
The church was not rebuilt afterwards, so that only the floor plan with low masonry and the crypt for the parents of Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt, which was set up in 1794/95, remain. The builder of the crypt was Marie-Elisabeth von Humboldt - the mother of the brothers and then landlady . The Humboldt crypt was initially located in the tower and was moved to the eastern part of the church around 1890 in order to be able to use the tower entrance better again. In 1969 the crypt was renovated and given a memorial plaque.
literature
- Markus Cante: Churches until 1618. In: Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin (Hrsg.): Berlin and its buildings. Part 4: sacred buildings. Ernst, Berlin et al. 1997, ISBN 3-433-01016-1 .
Web links
- The village church of Falkenberg as the burial place of the two families Marie Elisabeth von Humboldt on von-humboldt.de
- Time travel through Falkenberg on the homepage of the BA Lichtenberg
Coordinates: 52 ° 34 '14.3 " N , 13 ° 32' 16.5" E