Kleinschönebeck village church
The Evangelical village church of Kleinschönebeck is the oldest monument and at the same time the oldest preserved structure in the community of Schöneiche . It is a hall church with a retracted west tower made of unprocessed fieldstone , the beginnings of which go back to the 15th century.
Building history
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The village church of Kleinschönebeck followed a previous building from the time when the then independent village of Kleinschönebeck was settled in the late 13th and 14th centuries. The structure that is preserved today was built in the 15th century. Unlike most of the old village churches in the region, it is not located on the village green , but on the eastern side. The Church was badly affected in the Thirty Years War . The windows were renewed in 1653, large parts of the church roof were repaired in 1659, and it had to be repaired again in 1665 and 1678. In the course of the now necessary basic repair work, the tower was also built around 1680. On the west side of the tower, a cross made from Rüdersdorfer limestone was built as a spoiler , which was probably previously used as a tombstone or atonement cross . The cross has a niche-like recess in which a grave light or something similar could be found. The repairs to the roof were apparently badly carried out, because in the following year, as in 1696, repairs had to be carried out again. The interior received its essential design in the period around 1698 and 1699. The choir was built or the old one was repaired, the old wooden west gallery for the singers was probably extended by a stone building. This evidently created the need for more light for the singers, and in 1710 the old, small loopholes-like windows were replaced by larger new ones. The lead glass was also replaced by translucent glass. In 1721 the roof, gable and fence had to be repaired, a year later the stalls were replaced and a new pulpit was built. A severe storm damaged the tower in 1727 and the final repairs were carried out in 1741. A good 40 years later, serious damage should lead to another innovation. The upper part of the tower threatened to collapse, and the entire east gable had become detached from the front wall. He hung one foot into the churchyard and let the scent into the interior. The gable wall was reinforced with three brick buttresses, and the upper part of the gable was renewed; Masonry replaced the half-timbering that had been used until then . The wooden part of the tower was renewed and, like parts of the hall roof, it was re-covered. After a devastating hailstorm on April 30, 1848, the roof had to be re-covered. On the long sides, the previous smaller windows were replaced on both sides by enlarged arched windows in 1851. Two such windows were also installed on the east wall. In addition, the brick floor was put in and the interior was renovated. At the same time the funeral gate was walled up. The tower was repaired in 1834, 1841, 1906 and 1996. In 1927 the interior was completely renovated again.
In 1702 a very low extension was built to serve as a morgue. The building was renovated in 1717 and then fell into disrepair because it was never used for its original purpose. In 1779 the decision was made to completely demolish it during renovation work.
Today the church building in Dorfaue 21 is placed under monument protection as a single building as a monument of the state of Brandenburg , and as part of the ensemble of Alter Dorfanger Kleinschönebeck by local statutes.
Kleinschönebeck village church - view from the north.
View from the west of the church tower.
View from the east of the buttresses.
View from the south.
Church tower and hall building meet in the north.
Entrance through the church tower.
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Building
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The hall building has an almost exactly rectangular floor plan. It was built from unprocessed field stones and thus has irregular masonry. The building is 15 meters long and nine meters wide. The building is crowned by a hipped roof that is covered with beaver tails . The interior is a collar beam roof with tap beams and a double-standing chair. The two middle rafters are reinforced below the collar beam by retracted tension bars . A wooden beam ceiling has been installed in the interior. The floor consists of red bricks, near the altar the floor has a different paving, which indicates that it was used for other purposes. On the south side there is a round arch gate, which is now protected by a wrought iron grille. This is the so-called bridal gate , which is intended as church access for the priests and bridal couples. The equivalent on the north side, the funeral gate , is bricked up today.
On the west side of the hall is the not quite square tower, which is slightly inclined towards the nave. It was also built from irregular field stones. It has a footprint of six by five meters. The east wall is also the west wall of the hall. In the tower hall you can still see the stone foundations. The upper part of the tower is a wooden structure.
Furnishing
An inventory that was kept between 1830 and 1890 and supplemented again in 1939 lists 51 inventory numbers.
The organ was built in 1852 by the Berlin organ builder Ferdinand Lange (soon after the Second World War it was no longer playable and was replaced in 1980/81 by a positive organ by Gerhard Böhm / Gotha). The rest of the furnishings also come to a large extent from the time the church was redesigned in 1851/52. The Schöneich mill owner, Radicke, donated a cast-iron baptismal font with Gothic ornaments. In 1860 the church patron von Knobelsdorff donated a gold-plated baptismal bowl. The Lord's Supper still consists to a considerable extent of medieval and early modern original pieces.
Two bells belong to the church. The older of the two bells dates from the 15th century. It has a weight of 250 kilograms and a lower diameter of 73.1 centimeters. It manages 63 beats per minute with a nominal note of c sharp '' + 1. An inscription in Gothic minuscule that is no longer easy to read is reproduced on the bell neck between two double lines: osanna et temtatores a… igo (?) Tomtrus (?) Ave fragores . Konrad von Rabenau interprets the statement of the inscription with I break the thunder , which could indicate the meaning of church bells during weather disasters. A second bell has been in the church's inventory books since the 19th century. In 1912 it cracked and had to be re-cast, which meant that it lost its art-historical value. This bell was melted down again during the First World War . After the war, a new bell was purchased in Apolda , which was again a victim, now of the Second World War . Her inscription said The war swallowed my sister's sound / Let me call the congregation to the steps of your throne From now on . It took until 2006 that a new second bell could be purchased, which also corresponds to the sound of the first bell. It is smaller than the first bell and weighs 170 kilograms. It comes to 66 beats per minute. The inscription reads Come to me / All of you who are laborious / and burdened / I want to refresh you .
The sphere and weather vane that crown the tower were badly damaged by Red Army soldiers due to target practice in the last days of the Second World War . In 1956 the crowning of the tower was removed and repaired. The documents found in the sphere were secured in a cartridge made from an anti -aircraft grenade , supplemented by new documents and are now in the sphere again. During the renovation in 1996, the Seiler fine art foundry replaced the weather vane with a new one. In addition, other documents and coins were kept in the ball.
The pulpit altar was built in 1722. It is a five-sided basket with grooved volutes at the corners . Behind the altar is the associated prospectus wall, it is flanked by two columns and two pillars. The ensemble is crowned by an open volute gable. Pulpit and altar have been brought together here as a table for the Lord's Supper . Above the pulpit is a symbol of God with clouds covering the sky and the rays of light of divine revelation.
The church records from the time before the Thirty Years' War were lost in the turmoil of the war. The church registers that have been kept since then have been preserved.
Church cemetery
The church cemetery is still in use today. There are mainly older families who have been living in Schöneiche for a long time (Wittstock, Huhn, Unterlauf, Höltz, Dames, Grätz). In addition, since the 1970s there have been valuable tombs of the old Schöneieich Gutsfriedhofs, some of which are significant in terms of art history, on the south side, which have since been left open. The tombs of the two former landowners Friedrich Wilhelm Constantin Freiherr zu Knobelsdorff and Ernst Friedrich Heinrich Freiherr zu Knobelsdorff are particularly striking . Another original stone from the late 18th century from the cemetery belonged to the grave of the mill owner Dames and his wife.
18th century tomb of the Dames.
Cast iron grave plaque by Marie Holtz.
Burial place of the Grätz family.
Another grave site of the Grätz family.
Installation of historical tombstones
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More buildings
Opposite the church, on the other side of the Angers, the rectory still stands today. Next to it is the priest's pool . The local school building was erected next to the church.
Pastor, parish and patronage
The pastors of Kleinschönebeck were also pastors of the Schöneiche and Münchehofe branches.
The owners of the village were generally also the church patrons.
The Grätz family has been in the village since 1683 by Adam Grätz. In the 1980s and 1990s, she provided the village pastor with Helmut Grätz.
| Surname | Taking office | Term expires | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matthäus Wegelin | around 1541 | ||
| Michael Golnow | around 1574 | ||
| Georg Schmidt | 1585 | 1621 (deceased) | |
| Laurentius Preszier (Protzien) | 1620 | 1630 | |
| Matthias (Matthew) Pierius | 1631 | 1654 | |
| Gregorius Janus | 1654 | 1696 | |
| vacancy | |||
| Gottfried Wiegensdorf | 1699 | 1724 | |
| Johann George Cuntius (M. Curtius) | 1724 | 1728 | |
| Johann Friedrich Marchendorf | 1728 | 1732 | |
| Johann Georg Hoevel | 1732 | 1748 | |
| August Gottlieb Geitner | 1748 | 1777 | |
| Raymund Dapp | 1778 | 1819 | |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Bade | 1819 | 1842 | |
| Karl Ludwig Rudolf Rahardt | 1843 | 1878 | |
| Ernst Albert Babick | 1878 | September 15, 1913 | |
| Jacobi (Jacoby) | October 12, 1913 | September 30, 1928 | |
| Joachim Heinrichs | 1929 | 1955 | |
| Walter Schultz | 1954 | 1977 | |
| Johannes Jucknat | 1956 | 1971 | |
| Jürgen Huhn | 1971 | 1981 | |
| Friedrich Wilhelm May | 1st February 1979 | 1980/81 | |
| Helmut Grätz | 1981 | 1999 | |
| Annemarie Bodenmüller (since 1986 Annemarie Schumann) | October 1, 1982 | October 1, 1993 | |
| Kerstin Lütke | since January 1, 1988 | ||
| Assistant preacher | |||
| Joachim Finke | June 1, 1948 | February 28, 1953 | |
literature
- Heinz Biskup: Schöneiche in old views. Zaltbommel 1993 (2nd edition 1997) (European Library: The Damals Series), ISBN 90-288-5602-1 [several places, unnumbered pages]
- Heinz Biskup: Schöneiche in old views Volume 2. , Zaltbommel 1999 (European Library: The Damals Series), ISBN 90-288-6578-0 [several places, unnumbered pages]
- Christina Felber, Ines Jerratsch, Helge Martini: Schöneiche near Berlin. A chronology through history. Schöneiche: Bock & Kübler, 2000, 248 pp. ISBN 3-86155-108-X [various positions]
- Wolfgang Cajar : History and stories of the church in Kleinschönebeck. Dammasch, Schöneiche near Berlin 2008
Web links
Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 54.3 " N , 13 ° 42 ′ 11.2" E