Friedenskapelle (Berlin-Friedrichshagen)
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| address | Berlin-Friedrichshagen, Klutstrasse 7 |
| builder | Karl Spuhn |
| Denomination | Evangelical Free Church (Baptists) |
| local community | Friedrichshagen |
| Current usage | Parish church |
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| start of building | 1891 |
| inauguration | October 23, 1892 |
| Renewals | Late 20th century |
| style | Brick gothic |
| Dimensions | Length approx. 19.7 m, width approx. 8 m |
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The Friedenskapelle Friedrichshagen is a church building of the Evangelical Free Church Baptist Congregation in the Berlin district of Friedrichshagen . It was built in the 1890s in the neo-Gothic style from exposed bricks and is part of the Friedrichshagen monument . The community belongs to the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches in Germany (BEFG).
history
The building contractor, master bricklayer and Baptist Karl Spuhn and his son from Friedrichshagener Friedrichstraße 66 (since 1947 Bölschestraße ) built a church for the Baptist congregation on their property at Pollandsche Landstraße 25 (renamed Klutstraße in 1911 ). At that time the Baptist congregations were called Kultus- or Stationsgemeinden and at the end of the 19th century there were only three such associations in and around Berlin: the Berlin mother congregation - founded in 1837 -, one in Köpenick and one in Friedrichshagen.
The latter two merged in 1911 and used the Friedrichshagen sacred building for their services . Because of the steadily increasing membership of the Baptists in this double congregation, a separation took place on December 18, 1921, and in 1922 a branch of the Friedrichshagen congregation with seven members was even opened in Fürstenwalde / Spree near Berlin.
On January 25, 1925, the town hall was named "peace in the Klutstraße chapel ".
During the Nazi era , in 1938, under political pressure, the Elim congregations joined the Baptists, so that the Friedrichshagen religious community then numbered almost 100 members. As the Second World War came to an end, Friedrichshagen was attacked by bombers . An air mine exploding near the church damaged the chapel slightly at Christmas 1944. However, it could be repaired.
In May 1945 the Red Army occupied the church and used it as a post office and for dance events until the beginning of August. The Evangelical Free Church Peace Community held its meetings at this time in the cemetery chapel in Friedrichshagen on Wilhelmstrasse (from 1951 on Peter-Hille-Strasse).
In 1951 the Fürstenwalde branch church separated from Friedrichshagen and became independent.
The heir and owner of the chapel, a son-in-law of Carl Spuhn, died in the mid-1970s. A Yugoslav community of heirs became the new owner of the property . Since Yugoslavia was part of a non-socialist country , the GDR municipal housing company took over the management of the house. All bills, work, rent payments, modernizations, maintenance, necessary repairs and renovations were borne by the Baptist church itself. Due to the increasingly deteriorating state of construction, the church leadership considered building a new church center in 1987. Efforts to acquire a suitable piece of land in Friedrichshagen failed. (As it turned out in talks after the political change in 1995, the GDR was not interested in such a project.)
During the GDR era, the Baptist Church was also a meeting place for members and visitors of the Young Community .
After around 100 years, in 1991, the Friedrichshagen Baptist Congregation was able to buy the property from the still existing community of heirs and decided to renovate it immediately. However, the construction investigations in 1994 made it clear that the walls and columns were so badly damaged that the stability was endangered. The municipality therefore decided to completely demolish the structure and rebuild it on the original floor plan. Representatives of the State Monuments Office attached great importance to the preservation of the historical facade . So this was carefully dismantled and rebuilt with the cleaned building materials in the original style from 1892.
The street side shows six arched windows on the ground floor - three each to the left and right of the entrance - behind which the church service hall is hidden. The upper pointed arched windows mark individual rooms that originally contained rental apartments.
The small community financed the extensive construction work with the help of donations from members and friends as well as a loan. State funding or monument preservation funds were not used. All construction ancillary services were carried out by members of the community on a voluntary basis. The work was planned and accompanied by the architects Schmidtmann und Gölling from Bölschestrasse . In December 1995 the rededication of the Friedenskirche could be celebrated.
Architecture and equipment
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Bright windows on the sloping roof on the east side and an additional gallery were installed. A simple white cross on a red background and a wooden table below, together with the wooden ambo, form the altar area. A new acoustic system, a small electric organ and new comfortable single chairs for a total of around 50 people complete the equipment.
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The building is not a conventional church - it essentially consists of a hall and has neither a tower nor a bell , but a decorative pediment set off with yellow clinker bricks decorates the symmetrical facade.
To the west of the church, a sanitary block was built on a plot of land bought from private property, the outer walls of which take up the brick view of the chapel. The name of the house of God was affixed to this building in white letters.
Ecumenism and partnership
The Friedenskirche works closely with the Protestant congregation of the Christophorus Church , the Roman Catholic Franziskus Chapel, the Bethel congregation and the city mission in Friedrichshagen. Among other things, common prayers, benefit concerts and readings take place. The Baptist church has 40 members (as of autumn 2014).
There is a parish partnership with the Baptist Congregation Office in the North German State Association.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Churches and places of worship in Berlin> Kultusgemeinde Friedrichshagen> Klutstrasse 25 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1924, III, p. 135 (under the heading 'Churches and Community Houses of the Baptists' in the second column is 'Kultusgemeinde Friedrichshagen').
- ^ Homepage of the Evangelical Cemetery in Friedrichshagen
- ↑ Friedrichshagener design statute for facades ; Retrieved November 10, 2014.
- ↑ site architecture firm Schmidt man and Gölling the Church of Peace in Friedrichshagen
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 11.9 " N , 13 ° 37 ′ 44" E