Schlosskirche Schöneiche
The Schlosskirche Schöneiche is a former sacred building in Schöneiche near Berlin in the Oder-Spree district in Brandenburg . It is a listed building and has been used by the community as a registry office since 1998 .
location
The building is in the northern part of the municipality on the corner of Dorfstrasse and Kastanienallee. Coming from the north, Neuenhagener Chaussee runs in a south-westerly direction past the structure. To the east of the church there was once a castle with an adjoining park, through which the Fredersdorfer Mühlenfließ runs. A tributary is the Jaegergraben , which runs past the church to the west and drains into the river to the north.
history
Schöneiche was first mentioned in a document in 1376 in Charles IV's land register . The central early Gothic hall church , which was built from field stones by craftsmen , presumably dates from this time . After a checkered history with numerous owners, the Secret Council Severin Schindler acquired the Schöneiche estate and with it the church. In 1725 he had the building expanded, plastered and rebuilt in the Baroque style. When the property was sold again on July 7, 1761, it came into the possession of the Berlin court banker Friedrich Wilhelm Schütze , who incorporated the church into a new ensemble consisting of a palace and an adjacent park. Schütze died in 1795 and was buried in the castle church in a tomb designed by Johann Gottfried Schadow in 1797. In 1830, 1879, 1903 and 1932 craftsmen carried out repair work on the tower. While the castle was demolished after the Second World War , the church remained standing. In 1982 it became the property of the municipality, which began restoration work in 1985. She was supported by the Schöneicher Heimatfreundeverein and local businesses. The building has been used as a concert and event space since 1994 and as a registry office since 1998.
Building description
The original building was made of field stones with a retracted and rectangular choir . No traces of this construction period can be seen on the building envelope. In 1725 the sacred building was significantly expanded and rebuilt. The field stones were plastered and the corners of the building were conspicuously structured with grooved pilaster strips . The choir is now straight and has two baroque, segment-arched windows on its south side and one on the east and north side. On the north side there is a small sacristy with its own entrance on the east side. The reveals of the windows were emphasized with colored bezels . They were optically connected with a surrounding cornice and thus stretch the building upwards. The gable of the choir is also plastered and has a central, circular window. The previously rectangular west tower was extended to the width of the nave with the help of side rooms . The result was a continuous area that is strictly structured on the south side with two rectangular portals and an overlying segmental arched window. In between there are two larger, raised windows with the same design language. In the middle is a large cartouche of architectural inscriptions that indicates the renovation in 1725. The north side of the nave has a rectangular portal only in the western area. The window above and the second portal, which is axially symmetrical on the south side, are designed as panels . The choir and nave are each designed with a simple saddle roof ; the latter with a central bat dormer on each side. At the western end of the roof protrudes from the square, wooden tower, which on the first upper floor has a pressed segment arch-shaped opening on the three accessible sides, which is supplemented by another window on the west side. Above this is a surrounding cornice, followed by the upper floor of the tower, each with a sound arcade and a tower clock , which merges into the curved dome with an octagonal lantern . The western facade of the building is structured with a double pilaster , which is adjoined by two windows. The portal is comparatively simple and rectangular with a small window above it.
Furnishing
In the choir are located on the east side two paintings Polish portrait painter Georg Lisiewski which the court King I. Friedrich Wilhelm worked. The works from 1739 and 1740 show Severin Schindler and his wife Rosina. On the north and south wall of the choir there are figural tombstones of those from Krummensee : Wilhelm (died 1585) and his wife Elisabeth, née von Ilow (died 1613), can be seen on the north wall , while Cristoffel (died 1596) is remembered on the south wall . To the east of this epitaph hangs a genealogical table of Heinrich Wilhelm von Krummensee . It consists of tinplate on which 20 coats of arms were applied in oil. Another grave monument commemorates the former owner and court banker Friedrich II, Friedrich Wilhelm Schütze from the year 1797. In a niche there is a figurative representation of hope , which rests on an urn . The other items of equipment were essentially lost due to the effects of the war. Only the west gallery is still there. It is held in a reddish-brown shade and decorated in the middle with a cartridge.
literature
- Georg Dehio (arr. Gerhard Vinken et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
Web links
- Former Castle Church , website of the Schöneiche municipality near Berlin, accessed on April 17, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schlosskirche Schöneiche , website churches in Schöneiche, accessed on April 17, 2017.
Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 50.4 " N , 13 ° 41 ′ 45.2" E