Finkenkruger Church
| Finkenkruger Church Evangelical Church Neufinkenkrug |
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 Seen from Karl-Marx-Straße |
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| Construction year: | 1924-1926 |
| Inauguration: | October 31, 1926 |
| Architect : | Robert Wilsdorf |
| Style elements : | Mix of styles |
| Client: | Evangelical parish Finkenkrug-Waldheim |
| Location: | 52 ° 33 '48.4 " N , 13 ° 2' 33.5" E |
| Address: | Pfarrer-Voigt-Platz 1 Falkensee Brandenburg , Germany |
| Purpose: | Protestant parish church |
| Local community: | Evangelical parish Neufinkenkrug |
| Regional Church : | Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia , Sprengel Potsdam, parish of Falkensee |
| Website: | www.kirche-neufinkenkrug.de |
The Finkenkruger Church is the church of the Evangelical Parish of Falkensee-Neufinkenkrug, which was built according to plans by the local architect Robert Wilsdorf and inaugurated on October 31, 1926 by the general superintendent Otto Dibelius . The church is located in the Neufinkenkrug district in the town of Falkensee and belongs to the Falkensee parish in the Potsdam district of the EKBO .
history
First construction plans
At the beginning of the 20th century, the population of the then independent town of Finkenkrug rose rapidly, in 1913 there were 650 registered residents. The numerous Protestant Christians used the auditorium of the school building for their first service from June 30, 1903 . The construction of an own house of worship became inevitable and so the first planning began including the selection of a possible building plot. The First World War prevented a quick realization. As early as 1919, however, the parish began collecting donations for the construction project, and the preparatory work could begin under the church elder Paul Reinhard. But inflation led to the cessation of all work. It was only when a church building association was founded on June 19, 1924, and the associated income and donations could be used to concretise the building plans that the Finkenkruger architect Robert Wilsdorf had worked out.
Construction of the church building and further development
Funding by the church building association and the initiative of the vicar Voigt enabled the laying of the foundation stone for the simple church building in the Neufinkenkrug estate on September 28, 1924 . The following year, on October 1, 1925, the Neufinkenkrug-Waldheim parish was founded, and in 1926 it was given its own pastoral position.
The construction work was completed after almost two years and the Finkenkruger Church was inaugurated on Reformation Day in 1926.
In the period up to 1945 the building did not suffer any major damage, and the church bells were not requisitioned either. At the end of the Second World War , only glass damage was recorded, which could soon be repaired. In the 1960s, colored paintings in the church interior were whitewashed in accordance with the recommendations of the Evangelical Church Synod.
Between 2004 and 2006, extensive and thorough renovations of the building and interior renovations to preserve historical monuments took place so that the community was able to celebrate the 80-year church consecration on time.
The church building association of the Protestant parish Neufinkenkrug was founded in November 2002 to further care for the church and to maintain it in the long term .
architecture
Church building
The church is a compact, cube-like brick building on a rubble stone base , which was plastered inside and out. The plastered surfaces are designed in flame and diamond shapes in various places, referring to the models chosen by the architect, the Flamboyant style and Expressionism . However, other architectural styles that were predominant in the 1920s were also taken into account, such as the New Objectivity and Modernism . With this mix of styles, the Finkenkruger Church is an important example of church architecture in the Weimar Republic . The main entrance is on the north side of the building and is emphasized by means of four pillars with a portico and a lion's head as an ornament.
The semicircular apse is slightly shifted to the side from the axis of symmetry and contains seven colorful lead-glazed altar windows. It is finished with its own conical roof and thus even takes on early Romanesque designs . The church tower has been integrated into the structure at the north-western corner of the building . The main building is a gable roof finished in which each side dormers are incorporated with a diamond-shaped Sprossenteilung. The long sides of the nave are interrupted by three lattice windows each, which allow enough daylight to enter the room. The facing the street is übergiebelte risalits loosened. The southern risalit frames the main entrance to the church, the door of which is decorated with diamonds and floral ornaments.
The community hall and a storage room have been added to the south-west of the church. On the north side, the aisle adjoins the sacristy . The main room itself consists of a wider southern and a narrower northern area. An organ gallery is located above the community room , which initially served as a bridal hall .
tower
The church tower has a square floor plan with a tiled tent roof, which is crowned by a tower button and a cross. Three tall, slender sound openings emphasize the verticality of this building, behind which the bell chamber is located. Cornices and stepped windows adorn the facade above the sound openings. The bell tower has a separate stair tower, designed similar to the apse, and a portico in front of it. The tower entrance, in which the wooden sculpture The Prodigal Son by the Tyrolean carver Rudolf Vallazza , created in 1931, is framed by a portico resting on four rectangular pillars. The tower vestibule allows access to the main and side aisles, the community hall and the boiler room.
In the tower is a three-part Eisenhart cast - bells , which in 1926 by the company Schilling & Lottermann in Apolda has been poured. The largest bell, weighing 1.35 tons, bears the inscriptions: “I call the living to worship”, “I ring peace and rest for the dead” and “People come and go, God alone remains”.
A clock tower with large dials fitted into a square, flat niche is set above the bell chamber.
Furnishing
The equipment described here, with the exception of the organ, comes from the time the church was built.
Main room
The main room of the church is spanned by a coffered wooden barrel vault, rhythmized by wide arched belts. On the north side there is an elevated aisle, under which the boiler room is located. After the renovation, which was completed in 2006, the ceiling and walls are again designed in almost the original color, the eight orange-red nuances of the chancel are particularly striking .
altar
The wooden altar stands on a flat base in the middle of the apse raised by three steps. The front surface facing the main nave is divided into three fields decorated with ornamental ribbons. On the altar is a crucifix carved by the artist Hannelore Thielke , in a perforated design. This form is supposed to symbolize the belief in the resurrection. The first crucifix from the construction period was given a new place on the east wall of the side gallery.
window
The seven evenly spaced altar windows depict scenes from the New Testament : Jesus in the temple, birth of Jesus, Jesus on the Mount of Olives, Last Supper, homecoming of the prodigal son, Jesus on the Sea of Galilee, anointing of the feet. Each window bears a request from the Our Father as an inscription .
The windows on the long walls themselves have three lanes; some upper window openings are designed like tracery . They are not colored. The window grilles were molded from concrete.
Further windows in the west gable supply the community hall with daylight. However, the upper parts of these openings are shutter windows .
Pulpit, baptismal font, organ
To the northeast in front of the apse arch is the wooden pulpit on a column. The polygonal pulpit is divided into small recessed fields. The rectangular baptismal font is located southeast of the apse arch . The upper edge is decorated with angel heads.
The organ from the construction period was scrapped in the early 1940s and temporarily replaced by a harmonium.
After the Second World War, in 1954, the organ on the gallery was manufactured in the workshop of Alexander Schuke by Hans-Joachim Schuke in Potsdam and installed here. The organ consecration took place on Reformation Day 1954. The organ has two manuals, a pedal and 13 registers as well as an ornamental prospectus with the inscription “Soli deo gloria”. In 2008 the Schuke company overhauled the instrument and equipped it with a new keyboard. A planned tonal extension was not possible due to lack of space.
Pastor
- 1926–1961: Otto Voigt; Between 1933 and 1937 he was repeatedly suspended from duty by the National Socialists , also imprisoned and reinstated or released
- 1962–1971: Karl Pandikow
- 1972–1999: Eberhard Grohmann
- 2000–2002: Christian Pagel
- 2003–: Anneliese Hergenröther
The work and the upright attitude of the first pastor of this church was honored (around 2006/07) by giving the name to the previously unnamed roundabout of the church area at the intersection of Leistikowstrasse, Karl-Marx-Strasse and Böcklinstrasse: Pfarrer-Voigt-Platz.
Community life (selection)
The Finkenkruger parish maintains a children's church choir ( Finkenchor ), a gospel choir ( The Finchpotsingers ) and a church choir ( Finkenkruger Kantorei ). She conducts house groups, discussion groups, senior afternoons and, with the star café, offers a monthly meeting for grieving people. In addition, there is the advice and life support association founded in 2001 with advice centers and the members also took an active part in the Taizé meeting in December 2011. There are occasional exhibitions in the church, for example in spring 2020 Miracle of Creation: The dazzling life of dragonflies (photo exhibition).
literature
- Hans-Ulrich Rhinow: Local history Falkensee and region (no year)
- Hans-Ulrich Rhinow: The history of the Evangelical Church Community Neufinkenkrug , Bügler printing company, Falkensee 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-029274-3 .
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments, Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin, ISBN 3-422-03054-9 .
- Hans-Joachim Beeskow : Guide through the Protestant churches of the Falkensee parish. Evangelical Church District Falkensee (ed.), 2001, pages 67-74.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Beeskow: Guide through the Protestant churches ... , p. 67.
- ↑ a b c Local history on the private homepage of Hans-Ulrich Rhinow ( Memento of the original from August 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d e f Georg Dehio: Handbuch der Baudenkmäler , year 2000, p. 275.
- ↑ a b c d Beeskow: Guide through the Protestant churches ... , p. 69.
- ↑ a b c d Beeskow: Guide through the Protestant churches ... , pages 72–74
- ^ Report from the pastor to user: 44Penguins on June 17, 2020.
- ↑ The Miracle of Creation: The Shimmering Life of Dragonflies , accessed May 5, 2020.
