Parish church Altglienicke

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Parish church Altglienicke

The Protestant Uniate Parish Church Altglienicke is on the corner of Semmelweis and Köpenicker Straße in the Berlin district of Altglienicke in the Treptow-Köpenick district . Today's church building was based on a design by the architect Ludwig von Tiedemann and was carried out by Hermann Bohl and Ludwig Schaller from 1894–1895.

Previous buildings

As early as the first documentary mention of the place Glinik (later: Glienicke or Altglienicke) in 1375 four parish hooves were mentioned, so that there was apparently a pastor resident in the village at that time. It is believed that at that time there was a half-timbered church on the site of the current building.

In the Thirty Years War one of the first predecessors should be burned, according to the local chronicle. The laying of the foundation stone of a baroque church building according to plans by master builder Abraham Lehmann and carpenter Johann Rüdel, both from Spandau , is recorded on June 3, 1757 .

He is described: "The church is a simple, plastered, modernized brick building, without a choir , flat roofed with a wooden tower". The church was 22.5 meters long, 10.3 meters high, and the tower towered 26 meters high. The village church , built in the Baroque style, was consecrated in 1759 . A few years after completion, structural defects increased. A comprehensive renovation took place in 1774, and by the beginning of the 19th century the church, which had 120 seats, proved too small for church services. There was a final expansion to 199 places.

In 1866 the government demanded a new, larger church, the construction of which was initially rejected because of the costs. After long and tough negotiations about mixed financing from state and church authorities as well as the community itself, the baroque village church was demolished in 1894.

Today's parish church

On July 18, 1894, the foundation stone for today's parish church was laid on the site of the previous building. The consecration took place on November 10, 1895, on Martin Luther's birthday . The stately, three-aisled parish church of the city is in the neo-Romanesque style, but also has elements of neo-Gothic (buttresses). The slender square church tower has a steep pyramid roof, a limestone plinth and is placed at the side in front of the church front, completely atypical for a village church, which is apparently intended to represent urban areas. The entire building is faced with red bricks.

The building is 36 meters long, 16 meters wide, and the tower is 41 meters high. There is room for around 800 visitors in the nave .

The organ , built in 1895, came from the Wilhelm Sauer organ building workshop in Frankfurt (Oder) . Your disposition can be viewed at Orgel Databank   .

During World War II , the parish church suffered relatively little, but considerable, bomb damage . In spite of this, it was possible to restore the church within six months to such an extent that the 50th anniversary could be celebrated on November 11, 1945 as part of a festive church service.

In the 1960s, a renovation took place in which a smaller, more heatable room was separated as a winter church below the organ gallery by means of a glass partition wall.

The church, which in the GDR era was slowly decaying due to a lack of repairs, was extensively renovated in the area of ​​the nave on the occasion of its 100th anniversary in 1995 . Further construction work, such as the church tower, has followed up to the present day.

literature

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Altglienicke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Illustration in Rach (see: Literature), p. 20.
  2. ^ Organ database

Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 18.7 ″  N , 13 ° 32 ′ 20.4 ″  E