Friedrichsfelde village church
| Friedrichsfelde village church | |
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 View from the southwest |
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| Construction year: | before 1265 |
| Builder : | unknown |
| Client: | Parish Friedrichsfelde |
| Location: | 52 ° 30 '21.2 " N , 13 ° 31' 9.1" E |
| Address: |
Alfred-Kowalke-Strasse Berlin-Friedrichsfelde Berlin , Germany |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran church service |
| Local community: | Evangelical Paul Gerhardt Congregation |
| Website: | www.paul-gerhardt.com |
The Protestant village church in Friedrichsfelde (or its predecessor) is one of the oldest church buildings in the Berlin district of Lichtenberg and one of four places of worship in the Paul Gerhardt community. It was built in place of the first village church from the second half of the 13th century. After severe destruction in World War II , it was rebuilt in a simplified manner in 1951/1952 and is a listed building . The church building is located on Alfred-Kowalke-Straße / corner of Am Tierpark on the listed village green in the Friedrichsfelder Kiez of the Friedrichsfelde district .
First church building
Low German settlers founded the village of Rosenfelde around 1230 and built a church made of ashlar stone masonry with a ship-wide west tower , nave and retracted choir in its center . In contrast to what Pomplun said, that it would have been a " complete complex ", the church did not have a semicircular apse , because the eastern extension had no conical roof, but a gable roof. The choir soon received an early Gothic brick gable .
The village and church were first mentioned on April 2, 1265. This medieval church was significantly expanded between 1718 and 1728 by the court architect Martin Heinrich Böhme and redesigned in the Baroque style. In 1723 the tower was plastered with corner pilasters and a new structure with a lantern in the Baroque style. The interior of the church including the altar and the pulpit was painted in color. In 1777 the windows were enlarged, the choirs enlarged, and the church received an organ by Ernst Julius Marx .
Second church building
Because the church soon became too small for the increasing number of parishioners, the church council decided to build a new building that was built right next to the old church from 1887 to 1890. This new church building was built in the neo-Romanesque style , a variant of the historical style of the time . It received a slender, soaring tower with three bronze bells and a three-storey apse at the east end . The building was richly decorated with decorative panels. Especially for the two churches, the street layout was changed so that the Anger is no longer between two street areas; what was then Wilhelmstrasse was swiveled.
Only after the inauguration of the new (second) church was the first building demolished in 1891. For a few years both buildings could be admired side by side and served painters and photographers as an interesting motif. The pulpit from the earlier church was well preserved; it could be sold to Petershagen , the organ came to the neighboring Eggersdorf .
A separate parish hall, a few meters further north, soon completed the church ensemble. (This is where Café Kick is located in the 21st century .)
In December 1943, an air mine severely damaged the church during an Allied air raid . In April 1945, German low-flying planes shot at the building, which now burned out and was no longer accessible. The rectory and parish hall were also badly damaged by fires and bombs. An information board in the church shows an earlier view of the church and photos of the destruction.
The first services after the end of the Second World War took place in the cemetery chapel and then in the poorly repaired parish hall.
Reconstruction of the second church
Exterior
The old church was in ruins until 1950. When it was finally possible to raise some money, the Berlin architect Herbert Erbs was commissioned to carry out a simplified reconstruction. From the old nave walls as well as numerous beams and bricks, the plastered and shortened building with an arched step portal and simple arched windows emerged. It is a rectangular hall building with a sacristy and a square roof tower. The building looks very simple.
Due to administrative regulations, the altar wall facing the then Schloßstraße (since 1961: Am Tierpark) had to be set back by around twelve meters. In the nave hang the architect's original drawings showing the parts of the building that have been preserved and the structural changes; in particular, the windows were made smaller and the tower simplified.
The topping-out ceremony was celebrated in March 1951. On August 26th the bells consecrated the three bells that had been newly cast by the company Schilling & Lattermann from Morgenröthe-Rautenkranz in 1951 and the consecration service was held on the 1st of Advent.
The tower is 39 meters high and has a copper-plated helmet. During the reconstruction, many window openings in the tower were bricked up.
Interior
The barrel vault of the main nave is relatively unadorned and clad with dark woods. A simple altar with lectern and modern baptismal font form the main equipment of the choir room. An organ (1,380 pipes, 19 registers , two manuals and a pedal ), which comes from the workshop of Alexander Schuke , stands on a gallery . The organ was installed in 1955 after the reconstruction. In the course of the following years, large parts of it had become unusable due to the ingress of moisture due to the leaky church roof. With laborious manual labor and with the help of a generous donation from the Verkehrsbau Union company , the beautiful church music instrument was restored from 1999 to 2000.
In 1988 and 2000, the rectory and the church building were thoroughly repaired and refurbished, which received new exterior plaster. The church and the rectory are under monument protection.
Document discovery
On June 21, 2010, archaeologists found the foundation stone cassette that had been placed under the altar in 1887 while preparing to widen the street Am Tierpark . Because of the simplified restoration of the church building after the Second World War, the soldered copper cassette was now outside the building. It was opened professionally and contained: the Friedrichsfelder Zeitung and the Preußische Zeitung of October 13, 1887, a railway timetable of October 1, 1887, a booklet about the solar eclipse of August 19, 1887 as well as the statutes of the choral society, the local health insurance fund and the citizens' association with the names of the members as well as the program and of course the certificate for the laying of the foundation stone .
Rectory
On the area of the parish garden, a parsonage (seven-axis and with a gable roof) was built from bricks from 1860 to 1875. After around 100 years (1979–1983), the building was rebuilt and expanded under the direction of the architect Joachim Ludewig .
Association and community work
In 2001, the four evangelical parishes Friedrichsfelde, Karlshorst Zur frohen Nachrichten , Nöldnerstrasse ( Erlöserkirche ) and Eitelstrasse ( Mercy ) merged to form the Paul Gerhardt Parish , which means that four formerly independent parishes can now be looked after with three parishes. Individual work areas such as youth work are carried out jointly, but there are also separate church services and events at the previous locations. B. maintain their own wind group, which also appears in public.
literature
- The architectural and art monuments in the GDR , Berlin II. Ed. Institute for Monument Preservation at Henschelverlag, Berlin 1987.
- Jan Feustel : Walks in Lichtenberg . Verlag Haude and Spener, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-7759-0409-3 .
- Kurt Pomplun : Berlin's old village churches . Verlag Haude and Spener, Berlin, ISBN 3-7759-0261-9 .
- Theodora Paeslack: 700 years of Friedrichsfelde; the village and its church 1265-1965 . In: Lichtenberger Hefte , 1, 1991; Ed. District Office Lichtenberg.
- Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the church; Published by the Friedrichsfelde community, 1991.
- Markus Cante: Churches until 1618 . In: Berlin and its buildings , Part VI: Sacred buildings. Ed .: Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin , Berlin 1997.
- Conversation with the pastor child in January 2008.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alfred-Kowalke-Strasse, Ev. Church, 1950–1952 by Herbert Erbs
- ^ History of the Eggersdorfer Orgeln Institute for Organ Research Brandenburg
- ↑ Information on the Schuke organ
- ↑ Berlin State Monument List: Village Church Friedrichsfelde
- ↑ Berlin State Monument List: Rectory of the Friedrichsfelde village church
- ↑ The treasure of Friedrichsfelde . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 24, 2010