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Location: Neuhardenberg, Märkisch-Oderland, Brandenburg, Germany
After the devastating fire in the village of Quilitz, as Neuhardenberg was then called, on June 9, 1801, in which the baroque hall church was burned down, Friedrich Wilhelm Bernhard von Prittwitz won over the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, among others, for the reconstruction, whose second design for the church was accepted by him on July 28, 1801. Reconstruction began in April 1802, but the church was not consecrated until December 10, 1809.Both the striking and unusual shape of the tower top and its landscape-artistic disposition go back conceptually to Friedrich Gilly.[1] The twelve-axis 'temple' placed on top of the medieval tower is the target of the line of sight from the Molkenhaus to Bärwinkel.[2]The new church furnishings were designed by Schinkel in 1817 on behalf of Karl August von Hardenberg, who had Quilitz, which was now called Neu-Hardenberg, given to him by King Friedrich Wilhelm III. received as a gift.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schinkel-Kirche_Neuhardenberg
September 29, 2024
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