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Old Parish Church Pankow "The Four Evangelists"

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Julie
May 17, 2013
The old heart of the village Pankow with it's church. A part of it was build by Friedrich Schinkel. You can see the old village structures of the villages in this area with the church in the middle.
Damaris
May 10, 2016
On this site as early as 1230, Cistercian monks erected a small village chapel made of granite stone. A church bell is first mentioned in 1475. In 1539 Pankow and its place of worship became Protestant. In 1832 Karl Wilhelm Redtel redesigned the church, in collaboration with Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841). Between 1857 and 1859 Schinkel's student, Friedrich August Stüler (1800-1865), expanded the church on the west side with a nave, aisle and transept in a neo-gothic style and octagonal towers. Stüler’s west facade is no longer visible today. In 1908 the vestibule with the portal was put in front of it. The towers, badly damaged in the battle of Berlin in April 1945, were no longer restored in their original height in 1956. The four stained-glass windows depicting the evangelists were created in 1959 by artist Inge Pape. The pulpit depicts likenesses of reformers Philipp Melanchthon, Martin Luther, Nikolaus Count of Zinzendorf and John Calvin. It is a replica of the pulpit in Berlin’s St. Bartholomew Church. The interior of the church was renovated several times. The church organ today, the fourth since 1859, was dedicated in 1972. The altar table was created by Wolfgang Heger in 1971. The altar crucifix made of copper and enamel, with a body of bronze, which at the same time depicts the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ, was designed in 1972 by Herbert Reinhold, who also made the candelabras and the bible lectern. The Coventry Cross of Nails is a sign of death and forgiveness. It commemorates the destruction of the English city of Coventry by the German Luftwaffe on 14 November 1940. The Cross of Nails is a replica of the much smaller and silver original, which the provost had loaned the community of Pankow in 1962 but had been stolen in the 1960s. The parish priest community of Old Pankow is a member of the association of German Cross of Nails communities, which maintains contacts of reconciliation in other countries. Following the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933, the Pankow Evangelical Church community was from 1935 to 1945 a bastion of the Confessing Church, which the National Socialist church policies rejected. On the first Friday of each month there is an active peace group. The peace work began in 1981 during a time when there was nuclear arms build-up in NATO and the Warsaw Pact. The peace group’s motto was „Peace, Justice and Preservation of the Creation“, and the peace group was open for Christians and atheists to participate. As a center of opposition in the GDR, it was subjected to extreme scrutiny by state authorities. Following the changes in the GDR in 1989/90, numerous members assumed political functions in newly founded parties and grass-roots political movements.
On this site as early as 1230, Cistercian monks erected a small village chapel made of granite stone. A church bell is first mentioned in 1475. In 1539 Pankow and its place of worship became Protestant. In 1832 Karl Wilhelm Redtel redesigned the church, in collaboration with Karl Friedrich Schinkel…

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