Hennickendorf village church (Rüdersdorf)

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Village church in Hennickendorf

The Hennickendorf village church is the Protestant church in the Hennickendorf district of the same name , which belongs to the municipality of Rüdersdorf near Berlin in the Märkisch-Oderland district ( Brandenburg ).

Affiliation, community and current use

The first tradition of Hennekendorp comes from the year 1367. In 1375 it counts 34 hooves , including four parish hooves. Until 1553 the village was owned by the Zinna monastery , after which it fell to the Rüdersdorf office until 1459. This year it entered the provost Strausberg and went from there in 1542 as a daughter church of Herzfelde about. The church patronage fell from the monastery in the course of the Reformation to the Elector Joachim II.

Hennickendorf has been part of the Rüdersdorf municipality near Berlin since October 26, 2003. The church belongs to the Evangelical Church of Herzfelde-Rehfelde in the church district Oderland-Spree of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz (EKBO)

history

Choir

Little is known about the history of the Church. It was probably built in the 14th, but possibly not until the 15th century. Other sources assume that it is based on the foundations of a fortified church from 1250. This is justified, among other things, with the narrow, raised windows. In 1863 the nave was changed , but the choir was largely left in its original form. At the same time, the square tower was added. In the years 1876 and 1877 Albert Lang built an organ . In 1911 Hennickendorf became independent as a parish and received its own pastor. There are no reports of damage in World War II . In 1962, after a worm infestation, the altar was removed and a simple cross was erected. However, this situation turned out to be unsatisfactory for the parish, but it was not until 1985 that an altar from an unused church in Küstrinchen was erected. This was gradually restored by Thomas Braun until 1996. In 1988 the church received an electric bell. The church tower clock was repaired in 1997 by the Strausberg clockmaker Jürgen Fritsch . Two years later, the beams were renovated and the roof was re-covered. In 2001 an adjoining community room was created. The facade was repaired from 2004 to 2005. After a stork had left its nest in autumn , the nest could be lifted with the help of a heavy-duty crane and the renovation started. In the process, old ornaments and wall writings were uncovered and they were saved in accordance with the listed buildings. In 2008 the windows and the entrance door were restored.

architecture

It is a typical Barnim square choir with a single nave and a slightly retracted rectangular choir. Matthias Friske gives the ship the dimensions approx. 8.9 meters in width and approx. 8.5 meters in length. The choir is 8.25 meters long and 7.35 meters wide. There is an old, slit-like window on its north wall. This could be due to the lack of space, perhaps there was also a sacristy here . The church is built from irregularly hewn field stones , the tower from bricks. On the east side there are two narrow, arched windows that could correspond to the original state of construction. All other openings were changed and bordered with brick. It is also reported that the main entrance was once on the south side. The gable is structured by late Gothic panels , which were designed with white plastered inner surfaces. The tower has an octagonal, shingle-roofed pointed helmet with symmetrically arranged, pointed arch-shaped and coupled sound arcades .

Interior and inventory

The approximately 18 cm high silver goblet and the paten with a diameter of 14 cm probably date from the second half of the 15th century. The cup bears the inscription AVE MA (ria) on the pommel . The baroque altar dates from 1720. It comes from the sculptor Heinrich Bernhard Hattenkerel and is signed with the following inscription: “Heinrich Bernhard Hattenkerel Sculptor, made, gilded ao. 1720. d. 5th Aug. living in Morin, in Neumark. ”It is considered a comparatively rare specimen, because it does not show any paintings, but rather the words of institution for the Lord's Supper . A chandelier from the 18th century originally belonged in the village church of Garzau . Two around 30 cm high brass candlesticks have disappeared since 1939.

literature

  • Matthias Friske : The medieval churches on the Barnim. History - architecture - equipment . Series: Churches in rural areas , Volume 1. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-931836-67-3 .
  • Karl Richter: Heinrich Bernhard Hattenkerell. The 18th century carver from Mohrin in the Neumark. Part 1: Area of ​​activity west of the Oder. Published by the Albert Heyde Foundation, Bad Freienwalde 2019.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hennickendorf village church. Website of the executing architects Reckers; Retrieved July 10, 2014.
  2. ↑ Marianne Fiedler: altekirchen.de ( Memento from October 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Where past and future meet in old field stone walls , bulletin of the Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg e. V., accessed on April 13, 2020.
  3. ↑ altekirchen.de , accessed on April 13, 2020.

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 27.5 ″  N , 13 ° 50 ′ 46.5 ″  E