Steglitz village church
The village church Steglitz was the center of (probably around 1230), founded in the first half of the 13th century street village Steglitz . When the number of parishioners increased sharply in the second half of the 19th century and the small, modest church no longer met the requirements of the largest rural community in Prussia, the much larger St. Matthew's Church was built as a replacement from 1876 to 1880 "behind" (northwest) the village church which was demolished shortly afterwards in 1881.
history
After the settlers moved in around 1230, a wooden church was initially built in the middle of the street village, on its northern side of the street, but nothing more is known about it. In the second half of the 13th century, probably around 1300, the wooden church was replaced by a stone building, which with only 72 seats was even smaller than the Schmargendorfer Church , which is now the smallest village church in Berlin. The building material was field stone . Although in 1450 six parish and one church hooves are mentioned among the 43 hooves in the village, an unusually rich decoration for Central Market conditions, apparently little has been done to give the village church a more stately appearance.
The roof tower was probably built in 1729. The age of the vestibule is unknown, but it is certain that it was added in post-medieval times. In 1854 the roof tower had become so dilapidated that it had to be removed. In 1843 Ludwig Persius had dealt with renovation plans, but they were not implemented. In 1881 the church was torn down in favor of a new building due to the increased population.
Construction engineering
The village church was built as a simple hall church with field stone masonry. The stone blocks were not carved very carefully, but could still be laid in layers. After the Reformation, the church windows were enlarged as usual so that the newly introduced hymn books could be read better. The windows were over-molded; they received segmental arches . The windows in the east wall were given a brick frame . The roof tower consisted of half-timbered houses with a boarded lantern .
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Nothing is known about the interior. The tombstone from 1713 for the landlord Christoph Erdmann von Spiel, the last of his line, is today on the outer north wall of the tower of St. Matthew's Church.
The village church stood on the large lawn in front of the crossbar of the parish hall of St. Matthew's Church. Your exact location was measured exactly using old maps; the accuracy of the calibration was later confirmed by electrophysical measurements. In consideration of the soldiers' graves there, the ground plan was only marked sparingly.
literature
- Kurt Pomplun : Berlin's old village churches. Berlin 1962, 6th edition 1984.
- Old Berlin village churches. Heinrich Wohler's drawings. ed. v. Renate and Ernst Oskar Petras, Berlin 1988.
- Markus Cante: Churches until 1618. In: Berlin and its buildings, Part VI: Sacred buildings. Ed .: Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin , Berlin 1997, p. 337.
Web links
- Christoph Erdmann from Spiel, Sept. 24, 1668 - Sept. 27, 1713 on Gedenkafeln-in-berlin.de
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 21 ″ N , 13 ° 19 ′ 5.8 ″ E