Malchow village church

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Wooden belfry from the Protestant village of Malchow
Memorial plaque , Dorfstrasse 38c, in Berlin-Malchow

The Protestant village church Malchow in Berlin-Malchow was a medieval church. It stood, surrounded by a wall, in the middle of the 3000 square meter churchyard on Dorfstrasse .

history

The first inhabitants of the village, which was founded around 1230, were Low German newcomers. In the 2nd half of the 13th century they built a rectangular hall with a nave-wide, rectangular tower made of carefully square stone masonry in the so-called transition style between late Romanesque and early Gothic . The tower had a pointed west portal and round-arched sound openings.

From 1691 to 1693 the first structural changes were made at the instigation of the landowner. The hall building was rebuilt from brick , using the field stone plinth of the medieval original building. It was supplemented by a three-sided choir extension the width of a ship. The field stone tower was plastered and a wooden rectangular lantern was placed on top, as shown in Wohler's drawing from 1834. During the renovation, three inscription tombstones of the pastor family Neander from the years 1689 and 1693 were worked into the wall of the polygonal choir , some with figurative decorations. This remains of the wall is still preserved today.

The church also got a crypt in the 17th century, which was filled in during later renovations (1882). In 1882 the old church was rebuilt according to plans by W. Köhne, mainly the removal of plaster and lantern of the tower as well as a tower elevation made of bricks with double-arched round windows and attached octagonal roof turrets .

The interior fittings included an organ, a simple altar, particularly beautifully crafted choir stalls for the gentlemen, a tiled floor, a brass baptismal font with a drive depicting Adam and Eve in Paradise (1610) and a silver, gilded communion chalice (1606) with a Foot decorated with evangelist reliefs and coats of arms. The baptismal font and a baptismal angel were given to the Märkisches Museum in Berlin in the 19th century .

An ancient saying on the sacristy door testified that Prince Margrave Ludewig had donated part of the facility:

“Printz Markgraff Ludewig
Stiff't here in God's honor
church window, sacristy, plus
two new choirs.
God be his shield, his reward,
his protection, his property,
He let it stand firm
For his eternal glory. "

Memorial against the war made from building remains of the Malchow village church
Field stones of the destroyed Malchow village church

The appearance of the church at the beginning of the 19th century and the baptismal font are known from drawings by Heinrich Wohler found in the Potsdam planning chamber , dated 1834.

The church was blown up by the Wehrmacht on April 20, 1945, in the last days of the Second World War , as the advancing Red Army troops were not to be offered any elevated points of orientation or opportunities for artillery observers.

The building was not rebuilt, but the community erected a wooden belfry with three bells on the site; a small brick chapel is reminiscent of the old church. They and the parsonage serve as a preaching place and the parish for their pastoral work. According to a journalist's visit to the now 26th pastor of the Malchow parish, "valuable ciborias " from the 18th century are kept in the rectory . In 1984 there was some correspondence which, in connection with the blown up Berlin Reconciliation Church, also contained a possible new church building in Wartenberg, the neighboring district of Malchow, via a plot of land. Wartenberg and Malchow form a common church district . The exchange and thus a new building was rejected by the GDR government.

A remnant of the wall of the former choir polygon was designed as a memorial against the war: a bronze figure depicting a clergyman stands in a church arch without doors, and the words “Peace on Earth” can be read on the walls. Next to it is a disordered heap of the church's old field stones. Some of these field stones were reused in the reconstruction of the Nikolaikirche in Berlin . Directly on the old cemetery there is a memorial for the 19 Malchow men who fell in World War I, as well as a small memorial stone on a tomb of the unknown soldier .

Significant people associated with the Malchow Church

  • Paul Freiherr von Fuchs , Brandenburg-Prussian minister and landowner in Malchow, church patron
  • Sophie Charlotte , frequent guest at Fuchs and user of his library
  • Johann Porst , long-time pastor of the community, later cathedral provost and confessor of the Prussian queen, known as the editor of Porst's hymn book
  • Karl von Hertefeld (1764–1867), landowner
  • Heinrich Simon , banker, is buried in the Malchower churchyard
  • Karl Lohmann , lawyer and politician, also buried in the Malchower churchyard

Others

The Protestant followers of faith from Malchow form the "Parish Parish Malchow", which belongs to the Evangelical Church District Weißensee as the parish of Malchow / Wartenberg / Falkenberg. A Christian kindergarten is maintained in the district.

literature

  • Institute for Monument Preservation of the GDR (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments in the GDR. Capital Berlin. II. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-362-00138-6 , p. 160.
  • Renate Petras, Ernst Oskar Petras (ed.) Old Berlin village churches. Heinrich Wohler's drawings. Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-374-00543-8 .
  • Markus Cante: Churches until 1618. In: Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin (Hrsg.): Berlin and its buildings. Part 4: sacred buildings. Ernst, Berlin et al. 1997, ISBN 3-433-01016-1 , p. 336.
  • Matthias Friske : The medieval churches on the Barnim. History - architecture - equipment (= churches in rural areas. Vol. 1). Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-931836-67-3 (also: Berlin, Humboldt University, dissertation, 2000).
  • Hans-Joachim Beeskow : Guide through the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Malchow. Heimat Verlag, Lübben 2004, ISBN 3-929600-29-3 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about "Friedpark Malchow" .
  2. ↑ a b c Fontane: Christmas hike to Malchow; online .
  3. ↑ historical postcard of the Malchow village church ( memento of the original from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.heimatsammlung.de
  4. ↑ a b c Marcel Gaeding: As Bauer Noack cultivated the Erdtoffel. Church registers and ciborias: Valuable historical documents are kept in the Malchow rectory. In: Berliner Zeitung. September 8, 2001.
  5. ↑ Memorandum on Church Affairs 1984, page 12 .
  6. ↑ Representation of the war memorials in Malchow .

Coordinates: 52 ° 34 ′ 40.6 "  N , 13 ° 28 ′ 57.7"  E