Dorfkirche Alt-Tegel, Protestant church in Tegel, Germany.
Dorfkirche Alt-Tegel is a Protestant church in Berlin's Reinickendorf district featuring Romanesque Revival architecture with sandstone decoration throughout. A bronze entrance door decorated with ornamental designs by metalworker Ottomar Holdefleiss and seating for approximately 600 people are key features of the building.
The building was constructed between 1911 and 1912 by architect Jürgen Kröger to replace three earlier church structures at the site. A wooden church from the 1240s stood here first, showing that this location has been a place of worship for over 700 years.
The church serves as a gathering place for the Protestant community with regular services throughout the year. The old cemetery on the grounds holds graves of people who shaped Berlin's history over centuries.
The church stands on the old village square of Alt-Tegel in northern Reinickendorf, reachable by public transport. The open entrance hall is a three-arch arcade flanked by small stair turrets, and the interior seats 600. The churchyard around the building, closed in 1874, is still walked through to reach the war memorial on the south side.
In the northeast corner of the churchyard stands a single grave crowned by a marble urn and marked by a tablet with a portrait medallion. It belongs to Wilhelmine Anne Susanne von Holwede, née Colomb, who died in 1784; she was a sister of Marie-Elisabeth von Humboldt and thus aunt of Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt. Near the south side are the memorial stone of chronicler August Wietholz (1869–1949) and the grave of local politician Johann August Friedrich Wilke (1811–1874).
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