Helenenkapelle (Hohenlychen)
The listed Helenenkapelle in Pannwitzallee in Lychen was the asylum chapel of the Hohenlychen sanatorium .
history
After Gotthold Pannwitz founded the sanatoriums in 1902 , a chapel was to be added in 1904. The construction was funded by a foundation of Professor Dr. Heinrich Venn. The architects Paul Hakenholz and Paul Brandes were commissioned with the planning . Construction began on February 25, 1904, the topping-out ceremony on April 21 of the same year and the inauguration took place on October 22, 1904, the birthday of the Empress . Why the chapel Helena was consecrated does not seem to be known anymore.
Protestant and Catholic services alternated in the chapel; it was also used for weddings and baptisms. In 1945 the site of the sanatorium was occupied by the Soviet army, which converted the chapel into a fuel depot. The altar, pulpit and stalls were destroyed and the windows walled up and boarded up. The walls were painted over with glue paint. The sanatorium remained in the hands of the military until 1993, after which the damaged chapel was initially unused.
The association “Heilstätten Hohenlychen e. V. “came up with the plan to renovate the Helenenkapelle and use it as a venue. In 2002 he signed a lease agreement with the city on whose premises the chapel is located and initially tried to reduce the odor pollution from the wooden parts of the chapel soaked with diesel and oil and to expose and restore or replace the windows. In addition, by the centenary of the dedication of the Helena Chapel, he had restored the outer doors and built benches for visitors.
On the occasion of the centenary of the inauguration of the Helenenkapelle, an event was held to remember the history of the chapel. In the same year, the association was awarded by the support group Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg and received 2500 euros as "start-up capital". More money for the renovation of the church has been raised through the Hohenlychen cultural summer, which has been held annually since 2004.
The chapel is open from May to September.
description
The chapel is a single-nave, originally unplastered brick building in Romanesque shapes with a rectangular floor plan, which originally had a semicircular apse on the east side . This can no longer be seen from the outside, however, as the sanatorium here was expanded to include an autopsy wing during the Third Reich. The Helenenkapelle is externally adapted to the neighboring Viktoria-Luise-Kinderheilstätte, oriented in an east-west direction and has a tower on its west side. This was Dr. Following Venn's wishes, it was designed in baroque forms and deviating from the original plans. It has a polygonal shaft and is provided with a curved helmet and lantern.
The neo-Romanesque portal on the west side is flanked by columns with cube capitals, the portal arch is decorated with a head of Christ and a round rod , the wooden doors have rustic fittings.
The nave was painted by a painter named Plinke from Hanover . The pictorial decoration included two larger than life singing angel figures on the triumphal floor. The ceiling formed a barrel vault decorated with star paintings .
The windows were equipped with colored lead glazing that came from Gottfried Heinersdorff & Co. from Berlin . The altar niche was separated from the main room by two steps and provided with three windows. The windows, arranged in groups of three, were donated by Minister of State Karl von Thielen and his wife. A crypt was installed under the altar niche.
The altar was decorated with a precious ceiling and simple altar utensils. To the left of the altar was the pulpit with a wood-carved balustrade on a bundle of early Gothic columns. Opposite the altar niche there was a gallery that provided space for the organ and the children's choir.
After the Soviet military left, only the case and three pipes of the organ were left. According to a local resident, Russian soldiers shot the organ with a Kalashnikov.
The three bells of the peal are made of cast steel. They were cast in April 1904 by the Bochum Association in Bochum .
Web links
- Film about the "Geister-Sanatorium Hohenlychen" including recordings from inside the chapel on www.youtube.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helenenkapelle in Hohenlychen on www.uckermark-kirchen.de
- ↑ a b c d e The Helenakapelle in Hohenlychen (Uckermark) on www.altekirchen.de
- ↑ A. Schönfeldt, Heilstätten Hohenlychen Association: Bright spots for a resurrecting chapel , on www.altekirchen.de
- ↑ Events , on www.kapelle-hohenlychen.de ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ History on www.kapelle-hohenlychen.de ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Adolf Stock, Once more Hohenlychen. Sophie Ruiz-Pipo remembers the Nazi era in 2007 on www.deutschlandfunk.de
Coordinates: 53 ° 12 ′ 5 ″ N , 13 ° 19 ′ 34 ″ E