Klosterfelde parish hall (Falkenhagener Feld)
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The Protestant parish hall of Klosterfelde is located at Seegefelder Straße 116 in the Berlin district of Falkenhagener Feld in the Spandau district .
history
In 1894 a pastor from St. Nikolai , who worked in the parish of Klosterfelde, founded an association for nursing , which later also included a kindergarten . The association owned a rear building at Seegefelder Straße 71. The house was too small for church services, so they were held in the auditorium of a neighboring school. With the growth of the community in the 1930s, the school was no longer sufficient for church services, whereupon an excursion restaurant with beer garden and dance hall in Seegefelder Strasse, at that time house No. 54/55, today No. 116, was rented and purchased in 1934. The lower spaces in front building erected 1892 were to kindergarten, the upper to Diakonissen station and the dance hall for Gemeindesaal rebuilt . The inauguration took place on May 13, 1934. The community only became independent on April 1, 1953.
At the time of National Socialism there were also clashes in Klosterfelde between the opposition Confessing Church and the German Christians who were loyal to the regime . The dispute escalated on Sunday Jubilate 1936, when both directions wanted to hold services in the St. Nikolai Church and in the Klosterfelde parish hall. Pastor Berg, who belonged to the German Christians, had the two places of worship locked, whereupon Superintendent Martin Albertz in Klosterfelde had the locks broken and gained access to the parish hall with the church attendants of the Confessing Church. The church leadership then ordered a pastor from the German Christians (Pastor Berg) and once a pastor from the professing church (Pastor Kurt Draeger) to preach in Klosterfelde three times a month.
With many new buildings in the north of the community area after the Second World War , the number of members increased so much that intensive care from Seegefelder Strasse was no longer possible. A new community center with the Jeremiah Church was built on the corner of Burbacher Weg and Siegener Strasse . In 1967 this new community became independent. Also in the north, another part of the parish area of Klosterfelde was separated for the parish center Am Germersheimer Platz , two years later another part of the parish area was given up for the Gnadenkirche in Jaczostraße.
Building description
The hall was rebuilt several times. Church furnishings began as early as 1939. In 1940 four pillars were built up twice , so that a three-nave hall church with five bays was built. Pilasters have been suggested on the side walls opposite the pillars . The choir in the width of the central nave was given an ogival frame, the wall behind the altar a group of three ogival windows. The wings of the building were damaged in the Second World War . During the repairs, the west wall of the hall was renewed and the windows in the choir closed. In 1959, a single-storey youth room was built on the north side of the community hall . In 1974, panels in the form of rafters were inserted below the flat ceiling to make the central nave appear lower . This also improved the acoustics. The rafters interlock like a zipper and protrude beyond the pillars, where they are designed differently.
When moving into the parish hall, an organ from the Melanchthon Church was installed. On November 5, 1972, the community inaugurated a new organ from the Berlin organ building workshop Karl Schuke with two manuals and a pedal . It was later expanded by one register to a total of 13.
Bells
The first bell in the open bell carrier in the garden weighed 182 kg with a diameter of 70 cm. It was cast in 1898 by Gustav Collier's bell foundry for another church, which was located on Glockenstrasse in the Zehlendorf district. Its strike tone was c and its inscription read: "THERE IS NO HEALING IN ANY OTHER". In 1942 it was melted down for war purposes.
The second bell, cast by Johann Jacobi in 1704 , had the strike tone c sharp and the Latin inscription "PRIMA MEAE GENTIS - ET PROFUNDISSIMA QUAEQUE" ('The first of my kind - and just the deepest'). It originally belonged to a carillon that hung in the Berlin Mint Tower and from 1714 in the Parochialkirche . Due to the unclean sound of some bells, the carillon has been redesigned. The bells no longer needed were taken back by the foundryman and sold to parishes, two to the Nikolai parish, which had lost its bells in a fire in 1740. Both bells also came to the material collection point in 1942. The larger of the two bells was not melted down in the Second World War because of its art-historical value . It was returned to the Nikolai congregation in 1949 and loaned to its former municipality of Klosterfelde in 1950. Since 1988 it has been hanging again as an hour bell in the tower of Nikolai Church. The monastery fields procured a new bell. It was cast in the bell foundry Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock and weighs 230 kg with a diameter of 70 cm. It sounds in c sharp , and its two inscriptions are: "HOERET DES HERREN WORT" and "DONA NOBIS PACEM" ('Give us peace').
literature
- Parish Church Council (ed.): 50 years of Klosterfelde. Berlin 2003.
- Parish Church Council (Ed.): Images - signs and symbols in the parish hall of the Evangelical Church Community in Klosterfelde. Berlin 1997.
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part VI. Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997.
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Berlin 1987.
- Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephanie: Evangelical churches in Berlin. Berlin 1978.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : Resistance in Spandau . ( Resistance in Berlin from 1933 to 1945. German Resistance Memorial Center ) Berlin 1988, ISSN 0175-3592, p. 109 f.
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '19.5 " N , 13 ° 10' 53.7" E