Dorfkirche Reinickendorf, Village church in Reinickendorf, Germany.
Dorfkirche Reinickendorf is a late-Gothic church of rough fieldstone, its oval hall ending in a polygonal apse under a steep tiled roof with dark diamond patterns. A square white-plastered brick tower with a clock and a dark spire stands at the west end. Three arched windows and a pointed-arch wooden door open onto Alt-Reinickendorf.
The building was constructed in 1488 from fieldstone for the local community. The distinctive tower was added over 200 years later in 1713, and received a bronze bell cast in 1491.
The church has been Protestant since the Reformation reached Brandenburg in 1539. Its bronze bell, cast in 1491, still hangs in the tower added in 1713. The interior was refitted in 1936–1938 to recall its 17th-century appearance, and the pulpit and font date from 1938.
The church is located near Paracelsus-Bad subway station and is accessible for wheelchair users. Inside, an organ installed in 1970 is part of the building's interior and plays during services.
Three wrought-iron grave crosses survive from the churchyard that served the village from the Middle Ages until about 1870. They commemorate the couple Kerkow and Caroline Klamann, whose names are still legible on the metal.
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