Falkenwalde village church

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Falkenwalde village church
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The Evangelical village church Falkenwalde is a Gothic hall church in the Falkenwalde district of Uckerfelde in the Uckermark district in Brandenburg . It belongs to the Drense parish in the Uckermark parish of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia .

History and architecture

The church is a field stone hall with a retracted rectangular choir and west transverse tower from the second half of the 13th century. The tower is covered with a gable roof, the side gable panels and pointed arched sound hatches are made of brick as in the parish church in Gramzow . A two-tiered west portal opens up the building, one of the two south portals is walled up; the nave windows were renewed in the 19th century with stepped, pointed arches made of brick. In the east there is a staggered group of three windows, the gable was renewed around 1600. The interior is characterized by a beamed ceiling divided into squares and a horseshoe-shaped western gallery from the mid-19th century; Medieval consecration crosses were uncovered during a restoration in 1970 . A restoration took place in 1973–1977.

Furnishing

A slim-proportioned altarpiece comes from the middle of the 18th century, is provided with two Ionic pilasters on the sides of a central decorative field and is crowned by an entablature with a triangular gable. The wooden pulpit with sound cover dates from the first quarter of the 18th century, is supported by an angel sculpture and shows rich acanthus decoration on the polygonal basket and on the staircase . The sandstone baptism dates from the 13th / 14th centuries. Century and is provided with a round arch frieze on the pool edge, the foot is modern. A rococo-shaped brass chandelier dates from the first half of the 18th century (from the church in Ogrosen ). Two broad, flat arched portals made of field and brick are built into the church courtyard wall.

A silver chalice was created around 1836. A brass baptismal font is from 1696, a pair of candlesticks made from the same material from 1519. A bell was cast in 1717 by Martin Heintze from Berlin.

The organ with a late baroque prospect is a work by Ernst Julius Marx from 1770 with 14 stops on a manual and pedal , which was transferred to this church by Carl Friedrich Buchholz in 1851. It was originally created for the church in Boitzenburg and was restored by Hermann Lahmann in 1979.

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Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Falkenwalde  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information on the Falkenwalde Church. In: uckermark-kirchen.de. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Gerd Baier, Horst Ende, Brigitte Oltmanns, Wolfgang Rechlin: The architectural and art monuments in the GDR. Neubrandenburg district. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1982, p. 286.
  3. ↑ Information on the organ. In: orgbase.nl. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 16 ′ 3.4 ″  N , 14 ° 0 ′ 18.7 ″  E