Church at the Stölpchensee

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Church at the Stölpchensee

The church at Stölpchensee is a church of the Evangelical Parish Berlin-Wannsee. It is the successor to the medieval village church of Stolpe in the Berlin district of Wannsee . It is located on Wilhelmplatz and is a hall building with a crossing tower . The church was built from 1858 to 1859 by the head of the Prussian court and state building system, Friedrich August Stüler, based on an idea by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV . The church, which cost 15,000 thalers to build , was inaugurated in November 1859  . It is a listed building . It has been named after the nearby Stölpchensee since 1965 ; before that it was called the Alte Kirche to distinguish it from the Andreaskirche, which belongs to the same parish .

history

At the end of the 12th century, German settlers moved to the Slavic cul-de-sac village of Stolpe as part of the German eastward settlement . A church, probably made of half-timbered houses, was not built until the 15th century. In 1833, Harry Maitey , the first Hawaiian in Prussia, and Dorothea Charlotte Becker married in this building that preceded today's church .

In 1858 the village of Stolpe had 330 inhabitants, 59 of them in the Steinstück colony . 23 residents lived in Nikolskoe, where the Nikolskoë log cabin was built in 1819 and the Church of St. Peter and Paul from 1834 to 1837 .

The old half-timbered church , which dates back to the late Middle Ages and was rebuilt at the time of the Great Elector or the First King , became dilapidated and had to be closed due to the acute danger of collapse. Attempts to support the entablature by means of a solid back wall failed. It was therefore torn down in 1854.

The services now took place in the school, but now with few visitors, so that the construction of a new church was seen as a priority. The building inspector Gärtner from the government in Potsdam made a design for the church in simple, village-like dimensions. King Friedrich Wilhelm IV., Who often influenced church building projects, rejected this plan. He commissioned Stüler to create a new building design according to his stylistic ideas, which were shaped by his occupation with the architecture of Italy. The dominant, significant tower is more reminiscent of a donjon in type , in any case it has no village character. Since Friedrich Wilhelm IV took over the additional costs compared to a church in the gardener's sense, he became the patron of this new building.

In 1898 the rural community of Wannsee was formed from the village of Stolpe, the villa colony Wannsee , which had previously been created on Stolper Grund, and other settlements. In 1901 Wannsee became its own parish, until then Wannsee had formed a parish together with Klein-Glienicke, including the villa colony of Neubabelsberg . The Protestant residents of Klein-Glienicke used to have to visit the church in the neighboring village of Stolpe. First Friedrich Wilhelm III. had the church of St. Peter and Paul , consecrated in 1837, built for the Klein-Glienicker .

building

Stölpchensee with church
Memorial plaque on the house, Wilhelmplatz 1, in Berlin-Wannsee

The masonry, in which parts of the previous building are still used, is faced with yellow bricks. The church has the plan of a Latin cross . It consists of a nave with a vestibule that is cut through by a transept . The transept wings and the choir, which adjoin the crossing , have a polygonal shape ( three-conch choir ). A massive, square tower with a flat pyramid roof rises above the crossing . At the four corners of the roof there are neo-Gothic pyramid towers, which, however, do not quite match the neo-Romanesque building in the arched style .

There are three bells hanging in the crossing tower; one of them had to be given for armament purposes during the First World War. It was replaced in 1930. At the same time, the church received a tower clock and a set of 18 game bells , which, like two of the three bells, were melted down during World War II. The chime bells were replaced in 1958. The crossed naves have wooden ceilings. The original sandstone pulpit adorned with four statuettes of the evangelists, the altar with a late Gothic crucifixion group (from the Berlin Franciscan monastery church ), the baptism and a magnificent baroque tomb for the court gardener family Heidert (probably designed by Wilhelm Christian Meyer ).

An organ was not originally planned, and Stüler did not initially envisage a rear gallery. Before the church was completed, however, the community was promised an organ by the king, so that the wheel window in the entrance facade no longer has any effect on the interior. The organ was rebuilt several times and essentially remained intact until 2010.

In 2010 the church received a new organ from the Mühleisen organ builder in the historic case from 1861 by Carl Ludwig Gesell and Carl Schultze. The instrument has 17 stops on two manual works and a pedal. The registers of the main work are partly on alternating loops and can thus be played from the second manual.

I main work C – f 3
Principal 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Lull amabile 8th'
Unda maris 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Flauto dolce 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Flautino 2 ′
Progressio II-III
Cor anglais 8th'
II alternating loop manual C – f 1
Lull amabile 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Flauto dolce 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Flautino 2 ′
Pedals C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Violon 08th'
Choral bass 04 ′
bassoon 16 ′
  • Coupling : II / I (also as sub-octave coupling), I / P, II / P

literature

Web links

Commons : Kirche am Stölpchensee  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the organ ( Memento of the original from April 8, 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. on the website of the organ builder @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.orgelbau-muehleisen.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 24 '42.7 "  N , 13 ° 8' 28.4"  E