Lichtenrade village church

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Lichtenrade village church with cemetery wall (view from southwest)
Postage stamp (1978)

The Lichtenrade village church is located in the Lichtenrade district of the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district of Berlin on the former village of Anger . Right next to the church is the Giebelpfuhl , which is the largest Berlin village pond. At the east end of the church, which originally had no tower, is the former rectory made of yellow bricks.

history

The village was founded around 1230 and most likely initially received a wooden church. It was built up in the first half of the 14th century by a simple hall church made of poorly squared fieldstone with many nicks in the joints. The red brick frames for a pointed arched window and a pointed arched gate on the south wall of the nave point to the relatively late construction period . These openings were bricked up in 1769 when larger windows were broken in to provide more light for reading the hymn books introduced with the Reformation in Brandenburg (1539).

Lichtenrade belongs to the former Tempelhof district, in which there are three more stone churches: Tempelhof , Mariendorf and Marienfelde . They were built by the Knights Templar on their land around the middle of the 13th century. The Lichtenrade village church was built around 50 years later, on a different type of floor plan. So it is - contrary to what is sometimes claimed - not a Knights Templar church.

During the Middle Ages, the church probably did not have a tower. A timber-framed building clad with boards as a roof tower from around 1660 was demolished in 1810 because it was dilapidated. It was not until 1902 that the church received a new square tower, built from field stones according to the design of the building councilor Georg Schwartzkopff , in which the vestibule is also located. It is relatively high for a village church tower and the top of the tower was elaborately designed: its steep octagonal slate helmet was accompanied by four small pointed turrets, as are mainly known from city churches. The elaborate construction, which the local pastor Klein vigorously pushed forward against all opposition, was so unusually expensive that District Administrator Ernst von Stubenrauch , who initially rejected it, described it as “Klein's megalomania”. Klein prevailed, but the church burned down to the surrounding walls during a bombing raid in World War II ; the tower helmet was also destroyed. In 1949 it was replaced by a simple, transverse gable roof . The church has three bronze bells:

Bell jar Pouring year Caster Chime Weight (kg) Diameter (cm) Height (cm) Crown (cm) inscription
1 1867 Carl Voss G 429 114 72 17th PASTED AFTER RESTORATION / THE LIGHTNING IMMEDIATE / THURM IN 1867, BY C. VOSS IN STETTIN.
2 1936 Märkische foundry Hennickendorf H 320 082 72 17th MÄRKISCHE FOUNDRY HENNICKENDORF B. BERLIN.
3 1936 Märkische foundry Hennickendorf d 180 069 58 14th MÄRKISCHE FOUNDRY HENNICKENDORF B. BERLIN.
STOP PRAYER.

The Lichtenrade village church had already lost its pulpit altar from 1666 and the old beamed ceiling in 1922. At least the interior of the church has had a flat wooden ceiling instead of the barrel vault since the reconstruction after the war . In 1961, the standing baptismal angel, the last old piece of equipment in the church, a handcrafted jewel from 1708, was given to the Tempelhof home collection. In 1968 the organ was put into operation.

organ

The organ of the Lichtenrade village church was built in 1968 by the Berlin organ building workshop Karl Schuke as Opus 225.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Coupling flute 08th'
2. Praestant 04 ′
3. Reed flute 04 ′
4th Forest flute 02 ′
5. Larigot 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Mixture IV-V
7th Rohrschalmey 08th'
Tremulant
II Rückpositiv C – g 3
08th. Singing dumped 08th'
09. recorder 04 ′
10. Principal 02 ′
11. Sesquialtera II
12. Scharff III – IV
13. shelf 04 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
14th Sub bass 16 ′
15th Gemshorn 08th'
16. Pipe whistle 04 ′
17th Peasant pipe 02 ′
18th bassoon 08th'

literature

  • Kurt Pomplun : Berlin's old village churches . Verlag Bruno Hessling, Berlin 1962, 6th edition 1984, pp. 58-60.
  • Kurt Pomplun: Kutte knows his way around , Berlin 1970, 3rd edition 1974, p. 131.
  • Markus Cante: Churches until 1618 , in: Berlin and its buildings, Part VI: Sacred buildings. Ed .: Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin , Berlin 1997, p. 343.

Web links

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

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 29.7 "  N , 13 ° 24 ′ 37.5"  E

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West) - history and inventory. Berlin 1987.