Village church Kleinmachnow, Renaissance protestant church in Kleinmachnow, Germany.
The Village Church Kleinmachnow is a brick hall church with a west transverse tower and a six-sided choir. Its two-tone brickwork is almost unarticulated, with pointed-arch portals and two-part windows on the south side and a continuous tracery frieze beneath the eaves. The tower helm with hipped roof dates from the 17th century and carries a lantern with a twelve-sided bell roof; a 1703 burial chapel and von Hake memorial stones stand on the north side.
Margarete von Hake, née von der Schulenburg, had the church completed in 1597 beside Machnow Castle, later called the Alte Hakeburg and destroyed in 1943. It is one of the earliest Protestant church buildings in the Mark Brandenburg and served the von Hake family for representation, services and burials; until 1597 the Stahnsdorf village church was the family's burial place. In 1993 it passed from state ownership to the Kleinmachnow parish and has been restored since.
The church holds the grave chapel of 1703 and several memorial stones of the von Hake family on its north side. Inside are the remains of ten flags that Ernst Ludwig von Hake (1651–1713) dedicated to his brothers fallen in the Turkish wars, and a sword and two spurs that belonged to Herr von Schlabrendorf, killed in a duel. A rare pulpit clock made in 1711 is also kept here.
The church stands at the southern edge of Kleinmachnow, since the village grew northward over the centuries; the community centre and Auferstehungskirche lie at the other end of the settlement. The church and its enclosure are protected monuments, and the building is used for services, weddings and other events. The brick tower carries a lantern with a twelve-sided bell roof.
Look for the Kanzeluhr, an hourglass made in 1711 for the pulpit, a rare survival. The church also keeps ten banners that Ernst Ludwig von Hake (1651–1713) dedicated to his brothers killed in the Turkish wars, with a sword and two spurs above them.
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