Langen village church

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Langen village church

The Protestant village church Langen is a listed church building in the district Langen of the municipality Fehrbellin in the district of Ostprignitz-Ruppin in Brandenburg .

history

Previous buildings

A church in Langen was first mentioned in 1291. The history of this church is largely unknown. From 1541 at the latest, the village had a new village church. This was destroyed together with the village by imperial troops in the Thirty Years' War , in 1639 the remaining tower collapsed.

Rebuilding began in the same year. In 1665 there was another major fire in the village, in which the church was badly damaged. Then it was rebuilt. In 1698 this building received a church bell from the Schulz company in Berlin . In 1730 the church tower was overturned by a storm and renewed in 1743. In 1806, the tower, which had been damaged again, was renewed again.

New building in the 19th century

In 1852, the von Hagen family commissioned the Berlin architect Friedrich August Stüler to build the new church . The secret building councilor was a student of Schinkel . The church was built "in the Italian-Romanizing style". The construction costs for the church were around 30,000 thalers. The new building was inaugurated on October 16, 1855. The church is an elaborate, single-nave, yellow brick building on a field stone base . The tower in the west has corner pinnacles with a pointed helmet. A slim octagonal attachment with a pointed helmet forms the top of the tower. From 1954 the old wooden ceiling was renovated.

In 1972 the village church was supposed to be demolished due to its poor condition. The Langen community prevented this through work and the collection of donations. In 1997 the Förderverein Stüler-Kirche eV was founded with the aim of preserving and restoring the village church. Through his initiative, the church was extensively renovated from 1998 onwards. Among other things, the tower clock and the windows were repaired, the choir was repainted and a new chandelier was made for the nave .

The Langen village church is one of the largest village churches in Brandenburg. The parish of Langen-Buskow belongs to the overall parish of Protzen-Wustrau-Radensleben , which also includes the parishes of Protzen - Walchow - Stöffin , Wustrau , Karwe - Gnewikow , Nietwerder , Lichtenberg and Radensleben . She belongs to the church district Wittstock-Ruppin in the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia .

Furnishing

In the year of its inauguration, the Langen village church received a bell from the bell maker Walter Bachmann as well as a pulpit , a baptismal font and an altar table made of sandstone . In 1888 the bell was replaced. In 1906 a tower clock was built into the church.

In 1997 the village church in Langen received a new organ after the pipes of the old organ had to be removed to protect the building .

Commemoration

In the anteroom of the church there is a memorial plaque for the victims of the First World War .

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Langen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Churches in Northern Brandenburg: Langen village church , accessed on September 22, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Dorfkirche Langen in the organ directory , accessed on September 22, 2017.
  3. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Districts Berlin / GDR and Potsdam ; Akademie-Verlag Berlin 1988, p. 274.
  4. ^ War memorial Langen in the online project Gefallenenkmaler , accessed on September 22, 2017.

Coordinates: 52 ° 50 ′ 27.2 "  N , 12 ° 48 ′ 13.8"  E