Lübars village church (Berlin)
The Lübars village church on the Alt-Lübars village green is one of over 50 village churches in Berlin . The simple hall church with pre-tower represents a church type as in the village churches of the Mark Brandenburg of the Baroque period is often encountered. The church, damaged in World War II , was restored from 1950 to 1956. The center of the Berlin district of Lübars with the village green is a listed building .
The history of the nave
The 1247 first documented village Lübars already in the Middle Ages a village church wooden or half-timbered had, because in the land book of Charles IV. (1375) four parishioners are horseshoe called. Nothing is known about the time it was built and its medieval shape. In the early modern period (probably after the Thirty Years' War ) it was given a half-timbered church that burned down in 1790. The successor to the Protestant village church, a simple hall church with a square tower in front, still has all the stylistic features of the baroque in Prussian strict expression. It was built from 1791 to 1794 on the foundations of the stone half-timbered church that burned down in a large fire in 1790. During the plaster renewal carried out in 1983, the masonry was exposed and horizontal sections of different brick material were revealed . The walls are cut vertically by the windows and risalits of the current building. The reused massive masonry of the previous building is only in the base zone. In the outer structure of the nave , the central part is raised by risalits that protrude only slightly from the wall. The risalites are flanked by pilaster strips . On the north side there is a round arched window in this risalit , on the south side an elaborately designed side portal. The west portal on the tower, on the other hand, is comparatively simple.
The tower
The tower is two-story and has a square floor plan. The pilaster strips of its lower part correspond to those of the nave. The lower floor and the slightly recessed upper floor are separated by a pent roof strip at the height of the attic of the nave. The windows on the sides of the basement of the tower are similar to those of the nave. The clock faces of the tower clock are attached below the eaves cornice of the four-sided pyramid roof . The lower edge of the eaves cornice , which is similar to that of the nave, extends to the middle of the dials. The top of the tower has a pommel and a wind vane with the year 1793. The arched portal with its wooden diagonally paneled double doors and their wrought iron fittings dates from the time the church was built. A staircase leads from the tower hall to the gallery and the bell floor. At the height of the roof space of the church is the bell house, which has sound openings with segmental arches on all three free sides . There are three bells hanging in it.
| Caster | Pouring year | material | Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter ( cm) |
Height (cm) |
Crown (cm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franz Schilling | 1907 | bronze | f ″ | 97 | 54 | 44 | 10 |
| Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock | 1980 | bronze | d ″ | 220 | 67 | 58 | 12 |
| Franz Weeren | 1954 | Chilled iron | a ″ | 203 | 77 | 60 | no crown |
The inner
The interior is characterized by the rounded corners, a motif cultivated in the Baroque era. The baroque pulpit altar replaced its simple predecessor after the church was renovated in 1956. It was originally donated in 1739 by Friedrich Wilhelm I to the Gertraudenkirche on Spittelmarkt . After the church was demolished to redesign the square, it was moved to the prayer room of the former Gertrauden Hospital in Berlin-Kreuzberg in 1881 . He was banished to the attic after the hospital came under the administration of the Kreuzberg hospital Am Urban in 1945 . The altar was later stored in a storage room belonging to the state curator . Because of the low height of the room, it had to be rebuilt for installation. Some parts were lost in the meantime. The altar cross from 1717 probably also came from the Gertraudenkirche in Berlin. The community still has two bronze candlesticks from the previous church from the 15th or 16th century. From the church that burned down in 1790 there is also an oak chest in which the altar silver was originally kept. The baptismal font in front of the altar, which holds a neo-Gothic , silver-plated brass baptismal font , has replaced a wooden predecessor since 1967. The baroque plaster profile between the wall and ceiling was not added until 1965, when the floor and windows were also renewed.
Literature (chronological)
- Kurt Pomplun : Berlin's old village churches. Berlin 1962 (6th edition 1984).
- Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephani: Evangelical churches in Berlin. Berlin 1978.
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Berlin 1987.
- Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Old Churches in Berlin. Berlin 1991.
- Markus Cante: Churches until 1618 . In: Berlin and its buildings , Part VI: Sacred buildings . Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin , Berlin 1997, p. 357.
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Munich / Berlin 2006 (Band Berlin).
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Coordinates: 52 ° 37 ′ 14.5 ″ N , 13 ° 21 ′ 26.6 ″ E