Schmöckwitz village church

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Schmöckwitz village church

The Protestant village church Schmöckwitz stands on the northeastern edge of the round village Alt-Schmöckwitz on a dune in the Berlin district of Schmöckwitz , which belongs to the Treptow-Köpenick district. It was built in 1799 by master bricklayer Abraham Bocksfeld without a special design in the architectural style of simple rural classicism as a hall church and is one of over 50 village churches in Berlin . The green with the church square and village church is a listed building .

history

Schmöckwitz, an island until 1751, is of Slavic origin. Fisheries certainly played a major role from the start. Around 1230 the village came under German rule. In the land book of Charles IV , in which the fishing village is mentioned for the first time in 1375 as Smekewitz (the name means "at the snake place" in Slavic), a Schulze is also mentioned, who apparently was responsible for the delivery of fish to the 15 fishermen (without landed land) to Köpenick Castle, as well as honey. There is no reference to a church. Not until the Brandenburg register of bishops from 1527/29 mentioned a Capella Schmekewitz . During the Thirty Years War the village of Schmöckwitz burned down with the church. There have been entries in the church register since 1699 . In 1734 the church burned down again; a new wooden church was consecrated in 1735, which was dilapidated in 1770.

On the foundations of the demolished church, the builder Abraham Bocksfeld, who ran a brickworks with a lime kiln on the Scharfen Lanke near Pichelsdorf , built a new church, which was inaugurated on November 10, 1799. In 1910/11 the church was rebuilt according to sketches by the builder Otto Stiehl , and it was repaired in 1979/80.

Building description

Theodor Fontane described the plastered masonry construction in the style of rural, simple classicism as a "dreary building". The hall church on a rectangular floor plan is covered with a gable roof. The roof over the windowless east side is hipped . The roof tower in the west has a pyramid roof . The bell, cast in 1709 by Johann Gottlieb Schultz, hangs in it . The nave has three window axes. The middle rectangular windows are framed by pilaster strips with large plaster blocks .

The interior consists of a simple hall with a wooden hollow vault on wooden pillars. On the dais in the west stands by the company Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau produced 1,911 organ . Fontane already mentions a classical chandelier from 1816 hanging in the middle of the church, decorated with a shako and the iron cross . It commemorates the Wars of Liberation , as does the flag of the first division of the Landsturm with the year 1813 under the soaring Prussian eagle . The simple pulpit altar comes from the construction period. A glass painting in the style of the Italian Renaissance has been located above the south side entrance since the beginning of the 19th century . The remaining glass paintings are from 1937.

literature

  • Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part VI. Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997.
  • Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephani: Evangelical churches in Berlin. Berlin 1978.
  • Kurt Pomplun: Berlin's old village churches. Berlin 1984.
  • Ernst Badstübner , Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger: Churches in Berlin. Berlin 1987.
  • Institute for Monument Preservation: The architectural and art monuments in the GDR - capital Berlin II. Berlin 1987.
  • Hans-Jürgen Rach: The villages in Berlin. Berlin 1990.
  • Christine Goetz and Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam. Berlin 2003.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Munich / Berlin 2006 (Band Berlin).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Slavic fishing village Schmöckwitz is not a round thing. The houses stand at the eaves and not at the gable . The houses also do not have any arable land behind the house.
  2. ↑ Otto Stiehl: Dorfkirchen in Schmöckwitz and Rudow , accessed on September 21, 2018.
  3. ↑ Information on the organ

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 31.9 ″  N , 13 ° 38 ′ 59.4 ″  E