Falkenhagen village church
| Falkenhagen village church | |
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 View from the southwest |
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| Construction year: | 1676-1680 |
| Inauguration: | 1680 |
| Builder : | unknown |
| Client: | Evangelical parish Falkenhagen |
| Floor space: | 25 × 15 m |
| Space: | 200-250 |
| Location: | 52 ° 33 '57.15 " N , 13 ° 6' 19.9" E |
| Address: | Kirchstrasse / Freimuthstrasse Falkensee Brandenburg , Germany |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran parish church |
| Local community: | Evangelical parish Falkenhagen |
| Regional Church : | Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia , Sprengel Potsdam, parish of Falkensee |
| Website: | www.kirche-falkenhagen.de |
The Falkenhagen village church is a Protestant church in the Falkenhagen district of the city of Falkensee . The building, which has since been rebuilt several times, was inaugurated in 1680 and is a listed building .
history
Previous construction
The inhabitants of the village of Falkenhagen had already built their first simple church in the 14th century, the late Middle Ages . This - together with all the residential buildings at the time - was destroyed in a major fire in 1675. This means that no previous documents with more precise information have been preserved.
From the new building in the 17th century to the first half of the 18th century
After the fire, the residential buildings were rebuilt and a new church made of field stones with a wooden bell tower was built on the preserved foundations and using parts of the old enclosing walls. Its inauguration was celebrated in 1680 and this date was noted on the weather vane . - The oldest surviving church registers date from 1707.
The top of the church tower was covered with wooden shingles, carried a weathercock, a tower button and a star. The main nave was given a steep gable roof from which the west tower rises.
The first renovation work, especially on the wooden parts of the church building, was necessary at the beginning of the 18th century, which the master carpenter Samuel Winter from Spandau carried out in 1735. He made "two hundred and ten shock [~ 12,600 pieces] roof Spaane [shingles] to cover the tower and to manufacture" from four oak logs. In addition, the church clock received new dials, the paint on the gallery was renewed, the walls were whitewashed and parts of the roof were repaired. This carpentry work cost the community 104 thalers , 2 groschen and 4 pfennigs. In 1747 master carpenter Johann Friedrich Lehmann made a new staircase for "Herr Ober Jäger" [Encke] measuring 5 by 1.60 meters and built a half-timbered extension for the 12-step main staircase.
From 1750 to the end of the 19th century
A second thorough repair of the church building took place in 1771 under the direction of master mason Johann Conrad Barnick, which was completed in 1777, as the second year on the weather vane shows. The next renovation was due in 1832. The church ceiling was given its current barrel vault shape. Another gallery was built behind the altar wall.
Urgent work on the church tower was carried out in 1882, with the wooden shingles in particular being exchanged for slate roofing . The work was in the hands of the slater Nicolaus Degenhardt from " Wüsthaitrode , Heiligenstadt district ."
From 1900 to 1989
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Around 1910 the windows in the east facade were replaced by colored lead glass windows. The first church bells from the 17th century were delivered and melted down during the First World War for the production of war equipment. In 1920 the community received three new cast steel bells that had been manufactured in the Bochum bell foundry . By the end of 1922 the entire church was extensively renovated and provided with colored paintings in the local style . The gallery above the altar was removed again and the pulpit altar was given a new cladding in the neo-baroque style with two side passages to the sacristy and the gallery staircase.
When bells were supposed to be delivered again towards the end of the Second World War , the pastor Neese noted on the questionnaire: "Bronze questionable" and thus prevented an expansion and requisition . The building was not significantly damaged in the war.
In 1960 the new orientation of the Evangelical Synod took hold of further simplifying the church furnishings . The pulpit altar was detached from its closed wall and separated into a pure altar and a separate pulpit. In place of the pulpit to put a picture of the local painter Franz Haferland "Jesus with the disciples of Emmaus ". The colored wall and ceiling paintings were painted over in gray.
After 1990
After the fall of the Wall there was the possibility of a comprehensive renovation of the building and the interior. Between 1994 and 2008, with the help of funding, sponsors and individual donations, the roofing of the nave and the tower and the entire steeple were renewed in small construction phases . Numerous wooden components of the support structure, the windows and doors could be replaced, the interior was reconstructed and many necessary maintenance measures were carried out. The renovation work was completed with a service on the occasion of the rededication of the altar in December 2008. All costs were borne by the parish itself, which were mainly covered by the sale of the church's own land.
Church building
Nave
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It is a rectangular floor plan with a side extension for the sacristy and a western extension as weather protection. The main area of the church is about 25 meters long and 15 meters wide and is laid out in a west-east direction. It is closed inside by a wooden barrel vault, above which there is a gable roof. In the altar wall there is a sacrament niche, closed by a wooden door, the wrought iron fittings of which date from the beginning of the 18th century.
Tower with bells and clock
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The tower with a square floor plan on the west side of the church is about 15 meters high. It has sound openings on the sides, clad with boards, for the three-part bells and is finished with a pointed helmet . The newly renovated top is crowned by a tower button , the historic weathercock and a cross. In 1882 some documents about the church were found in the tower knob; After the last renovation between the 1990s and 2000s, new contemporary historical documents, coins and a photo of the children of the Christian apprenticeship were replaced. - The company "Glocken & Turmuhren Christian Beck" from Kölleda repaired the bell system and stabilized the bell cage.
The original three bronze bells were made by Johann Gottlieb Schultz in Berlin in 1705 (the smallest with a diameter of 70 cm), and in 1804 by JF Thiele in Berlin by casting on behalf of a "Königl: Pruszisch: churmaerkischen hochlöbl: Amtskirchen Revenüen Directorium" (the largest with a diameter of 101 cm) and was cast in 1867 by Wilhelm Bachmann in Berlin (the middle one, diameter 93 cm). The cast steel bells from the 1920s, tuned to F ', G sharp' and Ces', have been operated electrically since the 1930s. The largest bell bears the following inscription in addition to the reference to the Bochum association and the year: "Is God for us, who can be against us!" On the smallest bell there is the saying: "Lord make us free."
They are located next to each other in a wooden belfry reinforced with steel struts.
The mechanical work of the first church tower clock by a Spandau craftsman was removed and placed on the organ gallery. The electrical system of today's church tower clock is behind a fixed panel, the manufacturer cannot currently be determined.
Furnishing
altar
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The wooden pulpit altar was made for this church in 1705. As already mentioned under history, it was redesigned in 1960 and now rests on a flat pedestal. The new altarpiece, painted in oil, is framed by two twisted columns and acanthus cheeks. The predella shows the painting Last Supper of Jesus from the time of the altar construction.
Pulpit and baptism
The pulpit stems from the earlier altar and rests on a low foot, which is made of the same wood as the baptism and the altar pedestal and thus the altar area is designed uniformly. The octagonal oak baptismal font was placed here in the 1960s. It was made for this church and replaced an earlier simple baptismal bowl that stood on the altar table. When not in use, there is a doily embroidered by Margarethe Hort, parishioner, from 1944 on the baptism.
Windows, gallery, lighting
Today's stained glass windows depict the sacrament of baptism (to the left of the altar) and the Lord's Supper (right) and were used around 1900. The artist has not been passed down, an art glass workshop in Spandau is assumed to be the workshop. The remaining windows are provided with pastel-colored glass panes.
The three-sided "horseshoe gallery" rests on wooden pillars and its cassettes are decorated with gold / blue fields. The middle of the west gallery is designed in the form of a bay window .
The wall and pendant lights installed in the church were overhauled by the Rothkegel glass workshop and light manufacturer from Würzburg during the general renovation of the last few years.
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To the right of the altar are two metal candlesticks; The one shaped like a tree crown is the journeyman's piece of a Falkensee blacksmith and was donated to this church at the beginning of the 21st century.
Organs
A first church musical instrument from the workshop of Gottlieb Heise from Potsdam was installed on the west gallery in 1833. It was pedalless and had only four registers . In 1874 it was exchanged for a larger organ from the workshop of Friedrich Hermann Lütkemüller from Wittstock. It had ten stops on a manual and pedal and was consecrated on January 17, 1875. On the occasion of the extensive work in the village church, this instrument was dismantled in 1923 by the company Furtwängler & Hammer from Hanover and the community sold it to the St. Laurentius Church in Niedernjesa near Göttingen . A new organ by Alexander Schuke from Potsdam has now found its place on the gallery. This musical instrument with a powerful sound had 16 registers on two manuals and a pedal with a cone chest and pneumatic action. After 1945 it was increased to 20 registers.
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Lack of maintenance, lack of money and rainwater damage made this organ unusable, so that it had to be dismantled in 1984. So it was a good thing that at the same time an organ made by Hans-Joachim Schuke in 1965 became vacant in the village church in Zeestow , because the church building was to be abandoned due to dilapidation. The instrument found a new, worthy place in the Falkenhagen village church. It is a slide organ with seven registers on a manual and pedal.
In the vicinity of the church
The urn of Maria Theresia Encke (1774–1804), wife of the royal court hunter and chief forester Johann Gotthold Encke, stands on a sandstone plinth directly next to the portal . The Encke family lived in Falkenhagen; the former Enckehof was converted into the parish rectory in 1819. The urn, originally in the churchyard, was restored in 2007 and repositioned as a memorial in front of the church.
There is also an iron cross of honor for the war dead of the community in the churchyard.
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Opposite in the Freimuthstraße is the listed war memorial for those who died in the First World War. It was designed from Silesian granite and Franconian shell limestone .
Church life
The Protestant parish Falkenhagen has around 1500 members (as of the end of 2011). It maintains the day care center “Zum Guten Hirten” with 90 places in Falkenseer Bahnhofstrasse, a mixed church choir, a children's choir and organizes regular festivals. In addition, discussion groups, circles for handicrafts or instrumentalists and also a wind group are organized in a casual sequence. The parishioners also strengthen their social contacts through Christian encounters and joint excursions. The church room is also used for concerts or book readings.
See also
- Police call 110: sacrifice , a crime film from 1994, for the u. a. the village church Falkenhagen served as a backdrop
literature
- Hans-Joachim Beeskow : Guide through the Protestant churches of the Falkensee parish. Evangelischer Kirchenkreis Falkensee (Ed.), 2001, pages 50–58
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Andreas Kitschke: Falkensee-Falkenhagen village church ; Information sheet on the history of the Falkenhagen Church from November 2011
- ↑ a b c Homepage of the Falkenhagen Church; History section ( Memento of March 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Beeskow: Falkenhagener Kirche ... , page 51
- ↑ Homepage of the Falkenhagen Church; Building history section ( Memento from March 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ References from Beck regarding the repair work on the bell system , accessed on November 21, 2011
- ↑ a b c d Homepage of the Falkenhagen Church; Equipment section ( Memento of March 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c Conversation with Pastor Olaf Schmidt on November 23, 2011
- ↑ Embroidered text on the doily
- ↑ Beeskow: Falkenhagener Kirche ... , page 53
- ↑ Homepage with references from Rothkegel regarding the repair of lights in the Falkenhagen church , accessed on November 21, 2011
- ↑ Homepage of the Falkenhagen Church; Section Encke urn ( Memento from March 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Homepage of the Falkensee-Falkenhagen day care center
- ↑ Beeskow: Falkenhagener Kirche ... , page 54