Hope Church (Spreenhagen)
The Hope Church in Spreenhagen was built in 1858 and is located in the Neu Hartmannsdorf district. It has been named after its rededication in 1993. It is also known as the Honey Church .
history
As required by law for Old Lutheran churches , it had to be built without a bell tower. This only followed in 1937 with two bells, one of which was destroyed in the Second World War. In 1945, in the last days of the war, the church was badly damaged and only poorly repaired in 1946/47. The village church, which was blocked by the building authorities in 1988, was bought in the same year by the Protestant parish Spreenhagen. On September 26, 1993 the church was consecrated as a hope church after renovation work, for which the old wooden ceiling of the Fürstenwalder Cathedral was used. The altar wall and the hexagonal beeswax altar were designed by Brigitte Trennhaus. Your project was called "Christ is light and hope". In 2012 the altar got cracks because no one had any experience with such an unusual project and physical processes inside led to the complete destruction. The citizens started the “Congregation pours their altar” campaign and an appeal for donations for new beeswax. The willingness to donate from all over Germany was enormous and so the wax altar in its present form could be completed.
Interior design
The altar wall, eleven meters high and twelve meters wide, consists of around 200 kilograms of light beeswax mixed with rapeseed pollen, which is applied in layers to a wooden panel. Up to 80 layers of wax were processed. The wall is labeled, among other things, the wooden gold-leaf lettering "Light" forms a cross in the middle. The altar in the form of a honeycomb was cast from 800 kilograms of beeswax. It is 119 centimeters wide and 105 centimeters high. The baptismal font comes from the time the church was built. It has about 70 seats. A small organ is hidden on the gallery and a simple pulpit rises to the right of the altar. The original floor consists of square glazed terracotta stones.
literature
- Dagmar Paffenholz: Praying in front of the "honey altar" . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 31, 1996
- Point of attraction made of wax . In: Märkische Oderzeitung , June 18, 2008
- The altar in the "Honigkirche" in Neu Hartmannsdorf is threatened with decay. Wanted: 1000 kilos of wax In: Märkische Oderzeitung , April 18, 2012
- Wax altar is newly created In: Märkische Oderzeitung , November 9, 2012
- Community members erect the new altar in the Neu Hartmannsdorfer Hoffnungskirche - pioneering work with wax - In: Märkische Oderzeitung , November 22, 2012
Web links
- Honey Church
- The honey church of Neu Hartmannsdorf by Jeanette Bederkee
- Video on ODF-TV -Community builds up old altar new-Honigkirche Neu Hartmannsdorf
- Visit of the Birkholz settler community in the Honigkirche - a picture gallery -
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article - A creed in beeswax - by Eva Gonda in the Schöneiche community letter, pages 10 to 12 ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2017 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.
Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 28.5 " N , 13 ° 50 ′ 39.7" E