Staaken village church

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Alt-Staaken village church

The village church Alt-Staaken on Nennhauser Damm 72 in Berlin district Staaken of Spandau is one of the more than 50 under monument protection standing village churches in Berlin . From 1962 to 1999 she belonged to the Falkensee parish, since then to the Spandau parish of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia .

history

Staaken was first mentioned on March 26, 1273, when Heinrich and Arnold von Döberitz assigned eight Hufen from their manor in Staaken to the Benedictine monastery in Spandau, which was founded in 1239 . Since 1295 the village of Staaken was under the city of Spandau. Some rights - such as the church patronage  - remained with the Benedictine monastery (eight Hufen) and from 1420 until the Reformation with the Heilig-Geist-Spital (twelve Hufen).

In 1308 Staaken is called a “parish village”, so it must have already owned a church at that time, probably made of wood or half-timbered houses . Nothing is known about their appearance. After a village fire in 1433, it was rebuilt as a stone church between 1436 and 1442.

As a result of the Reformation, in 1560 the village church of the now Lutheran parish became a branch church of St. Nikolai in Spandau. In 1893 it became an independent parish church again .

In 1951 Staaken was divided as part of an area swap. The western part came to the Nauen district of the GDR in exchange for an area required by the British to expand the Gatow airfield . Staaken was now divided by a border, the village church was in the area administered by the GDR. For residents of West Berlin , she was inaccessible, the people of West Staaken but continued to serve as a parish church. Since the opening of the inner-German border in November 1989, the church has been open to all visitors again.

Pastor Johannes Theile (1892–1964), who served as pastor in Staaken from 1927 to 1958, ran into conflicts with National Socialism on several occasions because he openly campaigned for those persecuted by the Nazi regime. He was a close confidante of Superintendent Martin Albertz , for whom he formulated "polished and skilful" requests. Theile had great support in the Staaken-Dorf community; the confessional community decided on March 15, 1935 to recognize the leadership of the Confessing Church as the legitimate church leadership. In 1934 Johannes Theile showed himself to the church leadership in solidarity with other pastors who had been warned by the official church. In 1937 he was imprisoned for a few weeks because he held a prohibited collection. From 1942 the parish deacon Otto Drephal waged a guerrilla war against Johannes Theile; Drephal was ultimately unable to assert himself because he could be challenged by unjustified official acts and by wearing official costume that was not his due.

Johannes Theile - like his Catholic brother, Pastor Georg Jurytko from Gatow - accompanied numerous soldiers on their way to execution from 1943 until the end of the war and looked after the bereaved. He was initially buried in the In den Kisseln cemetery and was reburied in the Alt-Staakener cemetery in 2002.

Building description

On the north wall of the Staaken village church, the original masonry can be seen in two places that have been freed from plaster: brickwork at the gate to the former sacristy, fieldstone masonry in the base area.

The late Gothic hall church of 15.20 meters in length and 8.55 meters in width, which deviates somewhat from the right angle, was rebuilt in 1436–1438 using the foundation walls of the original building, with a vaulted sacristy on the north side, which was demolished again in the 17th century. The access at that time was blocked with brick bricks. The frame of the door was also made of this material, as was probably the entire sacristy. The outer walls of the village church in the base area consist of unquared field stones of different sizes and above them of brick bricks. This building material is now hidden under plaster , but exposed in some places on the north wall. The simple, flat-roofed hall without any differentiation, i. H. without choir and apse , is the oldest type of Christian sacred building and most widespread in village churches. It is oriented east-west.

The village church received a bell tower in 1558 at the instigation of the Staaken church leaders , which was built by the builder Boeldicke vom Stresow . The square tower in the west is not axial , but is aligned with that of the nave with its south wall. In 1712 the village church was rebuilt in baroque style. The dilapidated tower was torn down and a new one was built as masonry on the old foundation. The boarded tower is covered with a pyramid roof . The annex on the south side, intended as a morgue and now used as a sacristy, dates from the same year in 1712 . In 1729 the tower received a clock; it cost 72  thalers . In 1770 the church was renovated. During the classicistic redesign in 1837 , the walls of the ship were raised and plastered to accommodate galleries . The nave received large segment arched windows .

Furnishing

The interior with the mural Unity Reconciled

Old inventory items from 1837, such as candlesticks, altar cross and baptismal font made of cast iron , are still in use today. The carved altar , created at the beginning of the 16th century, was sold to the Märkisches Museum in 1896 . The figures of Mary on the crescent moon , Mary Magdalene and two disciples have been preserved.

The classicist renovation lasted until 1962. Then the village church experienced a redesign under the aspects of a "new objectivity". In 1970 the two side galleries were removed, the organ gallery was retained. The organ and pulpit have been removed. In 1992 the village church got a small organ again. Your disposition can be viewed here. Only in the years 2000–2002 did a comprehensive renovation and redesign take place.

Of the three windows on the east wall, the middle one was walled up. Now the two side windows were closed and the window between them, forming one end point of the east-west axis of the church, was opened again in order to restore the liturgical central axis of the church.

Mural

The Berlin painter Joachim Bayer created the wall painting Reconciled Unity in the style of New Realism in 2002 based on designs by the Italian artist Gabriele Mucchi and a concept by Pastor Norbert Rauer . Twelve historical personalities are gathered under the image of Christ crucified , who played an important role in the renewal of the Church and the worldview in the 16th century and who embody the Reformation and Counter-Reformation :

pulpit

The restored pulpit

In 1995/96 a carpenter reconstructed the pulpit from 1648 on the old pulpit base and reinserted the old pulpit pictures. The pulpit clock from the 16th century has been restored.

Glasswork

The crucifix stands in front of the reopened window - it is made of layered glass made using the fusing process . The altar foot is also made of such glass. The layered glass is supposed to symbolize the breaks in the history of the place, the community and the church.

literature

(in chronological order)
  • Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephani: Evangelical churches in Berlin. Berlin 1978.
  • Kurt Pomplun : Berlin's old village churches. Berlin 1962, 6th edition 1984.
  • Hans-Jürgen Rach: The villages in Berlin. Berlin 1990.
  • Markus Cante: Churches until 1618 . In: Berlin and its buildings , Part VI: Sacred buildings . Ed .: Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin , Berlin 1997, p. 347.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Band Berlin. Munich / Berlin 2006, p. 444, ISBN 3-422-03111-1 .
  • The village church of Alt-Staaken. Reconciled unity. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2014, Schnell, Art Guide No. 2840, ed. on behalf of the Freundeskreis der Dorfkirche Alt-Staaken e. V., Text: Norbert Rauer in collaboration with Andreas Kalesse

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : Resistance in Spandau . ( Resistance in Berlin from 1933 to 1945. German Resistance Memorial Center ) Berlin 1988, ISSN  0175-3592 , p. 105.
  2. ^ Hans-Rainer Sandvoss: Resistance in Spandau . Berlin 1988, pp. 136-140.
  3. ↑ Pastor Theile is now finding his final resting place in Alt-Staaken. In: Berliner Morgenpost , August 25, 2002.
  4. ^ Organ database
  5. ↑ Christel Wollmann-Fiedler, Jan Feustel : Alte Dorfkirchen in Berlin , Berlin Edition 2001, p. 122
  6. ^ The village church Alt-Staaken. Reconciled unity. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2014, Schnell, Art Guide No. 2840, p. 16.

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 51.2 ″  N , 13 ° 8 ′ 24.5 ″  E