Institution Church (Beelitz)

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The institutional church on a postcard from 1915, field post club hospital

The Institute church in Beelitz was 1902-1971 a hospital chapel in Beelitz in Beelitz .

location

The Simultankirche stood in the middle of the Beelitz-Heilstätten site at the intersection of the railway line and the highway, which divided the area into four quadrants: the men were to the east, the women to the west of the highway, the pulmonary hospitals to the north of the railway line, and the to the south of the railway line Housed sanatoriums. By choosing this location, the church was accessible to everyone.

history

The church was built in the first construction phase from 1898 to 1902 under the architects Heino Schmieden and Julius Boethke . It was considered a public institution for patients as well as for staff and guests. The Protestant parish was looked after by the pastor from Beelitz, the Catholic initially by a clergyman from Berlin, and from 1907 by the parish pastor from Werder . From 1914 to 1920 she also served disabled soldiers in the club hospital set up in Beelitz. On May 7, 1928, a memorial was erected by Professor Ludwig Cauer for the fallen soldiers of the First World War who were employees of the sanatoriums. From 1939 to 1945 the church was again used as a hospital church. After the Battle of Halbe , the Red Army took the area. The roof truss burned down in April or May 1945 for reasons that are not clear. With the approval of the Soviet administration, the church, which was still worth preserving, was demolished in 1971 in order to obtain stones for the construction of the bowling alley in Beelitz in 1972. The SG Beelitz eV had to date need to be content with a mobile bowling alley of the 1967th

Appearance

A rose window made of stained glass was set into the masonry above the roofed entrance area of ​​the chapel-like church with 200 seats . On the east side a stone tower led into a half-timbered belfry , which was crowned by a pointed roof turret . The choir was on the west side. The church had two sacristies, the one on the south side for the Protestant pastor and the other on the north side for the Catholic one.

photos

  • Institution church, left the memorial

  • Institution church, on the right the memorial

  • The site today, in the center demolished memorial

  • The bowling alley of the Sportgemeinschaft Blau Weiß Beelitz 1912/90 eV

  • The bowling alley in Beelitz, built from the stones of the asylum church

literature

  • Claus-Ulrich Bielefeld: The brief breath of history. Beelitz-Heilstätten, once the largest lung sanatorium in the world, is now a monument to medical history. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 25, 2007, p. 48.
  • Fritz Schulz: The sanatoriums and the new tuberculosis hospital in Beelitz. In: Heinrich Weigand (Ed.): Von Deutschem Schaffen. Volume 1, Cologne 1931.
  • Landesversicherungsanstalt Berlin (Ed.): The workers' sanatoriums of the Landes-Versicherungsanstalt Berlin near Beelitz. Berlin 1902.
  • Landesversicherungsanstalt Berlin (Ed.): The sanatoriums of the Landesversicherungsanstalt Berlin near Beelitz i / Mark. Memorandum published by the Berlin State Insurance Institute on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Heilstätten, Wasmuth, Berlin 1927.

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 42.5 ″  N , 12 ° 55 ′ 26.5 ″  E