Schöneberg village church

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Schöneberg village church seen from the main street

The Schöneberg village church is the oldest church in the Schöneberg district of Berlin in the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district . It stands on a hill on the former village green in today's main street near Dominicusstraße .

history

Schöneberg was probably founded as a wide street village by German settlers in the first third of the 13th century . The core of Schöneberg's settlement lay along the main street between today's Dominicus and Akazien streets . The Schöneberg village church was on the north side of the street in the center of the village. The village was first mentioned in a document on November 3, 1264, when Margrave Otto III. donated five Hufen land in the village of Schöneberg ("villa Sconenberch") to the nunnery in Spandau . The place name “Schöner Berg” does not mean the location at the upper edge of the slope of the Teltow down to the Spreetal , but rather one of the “desired names” used during the German settlement in the east to attract settlers.

According to the habits of the newcomers, it was customary to build a village church as soon as possible, initially only made of wood because of the high costs. Nothing is known about this wooden church structure, including when it was replaced by a stone structure (probably a stone church ) and what it looked like. It was destroyed by fire in 1544 and either rebuilt or replaced by a new building, of which we only know that its masonry consisted of field stones , remains of which can still be found in the brick masonry of today's village church. In 1760 this church was also destroyed in the Seven Years' War . From contemporary plans it can be seen that the churches were always rebuilt in the same place after the destruction in 1544 and 1760. After the Seven Years' War , the church was rebuilt in baroque forms between 1764 and 1766 by the "Widow Lehmann, Wall Master in Spandow", presumably based on the design of the Spandau building inspector Johann Friedrich Lehmann . The church building did not survive the Second World War either and burned down again in February 1945. In the years 1953 to 1955, the outside of the church was renovated in its old form.

Building

The simple floor plan of a hall church with a square west tower and a sacristy was chosen for the new building . It is a plastered brick building with numerous field stones from the previous building in the walls . It is a typical example of a Frederician country church, in baroque forms and with the corresponding color for the plaster (pink). The tower has a curved hood. The weather vane , based on the original , with its crowned monogram "FR" still reminds of the royal builder and patron saint; it shows the year construction began in 1764. A lower sacristy was added to the narrow eastern side. On its south wall there is a large sandstone slab dedicated to the “Tabcirer” Thomas Feger, who died in 1718. The windows of the church are arranged in two rows one above the other.

Schöneberg village church

Furnishing

The entire equipment of the Schöneberg village church was created in the style of today. The large altarpiece from the late Gothic period is on loan. The colorful wooden panel shows - in front of the mountain landscape and cityscape - Christ in the midst of his disciples , as he bids farewell to Mary and her companions.

graveyard

In the churchyard the magnificent dominate mausoleums of Schöneberg million farmers in the historicist architecture forms the past two decades before 1900. Artistic appealing are two simple tombs, designed from sketches by Karl Friedrich Schinkel . A small Doric temple made of Silesian marble based on drawings by August Stülers towers over the resting place of the architect Wilhelm Stier .

At the Alt-Schöneberg cemetery you can also find a. the graves of

literature

  • Kurt Pomplun : Berlin's old village churches . Bruno Hessling Verlag, Berlin 1967, p. 78.
  • Mark Pockrandt: The Schöneberg village church. Church life since 1764 . be.bra Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-95410-024-8 .
  • Christine Goetz , Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam . Berlin 2003
  • Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephani: Evangelical churches in Berlin . Berlin 1978
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, Volume Berlin , Munich / Berlin 2006
  • Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Old Churches in Berlin. Berlin 1991.

Web links

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

Remarks

  1. ↑ Represented in more detail → here in the Berlin-Schöneberg article .
  2. ↑ This is also the case with the new Zehlendorf village church built for a comparable occasion .

Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 58.5 ″  N , 13 ° 20 ′ 58 ″  E