Apostle Andreas Church (Berlin)
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The Evangelical Apostle Andrew's Church ( ), designed by Paul Poser , is at the Slasher street corner 46 Eichhorster way in Berlin district Märkisches quarter of the district Reinickendorf .
history
The church was built as a community home in 1936–1937 and named after Adolf Stoecker . It originally belonged to the parish of the Wittenau village church and was taken over in 1963 by the Apostle Petrus parish . After this congregation was divided in 1969, the newly founded congregation received the congregation home as a church. She chose the apostle Andrew to be her namesake . In 2001, the former parishes of Apostle Andreas and In den Rollbergen became the evangelical rock parish. She kept both preaching sites, the Rollberge community center at Titiseestraße 7 and the church at Eichhorster Weg 56.
Building description
The single-storey building complex is divided into two building wings arranged at right angles to each other . It is based in the architectural style of the massive houses of the settlement New Era in the neighborhood. The masonry is plastered . The building is typical for the genre, although the community homes of the 1930s, by its bell tower with gable roof and simple sound arcades , the left side of the gable is, it is but urban easy to recognize as a church. In the belfry hangs a ring made of two bronze bells :
| Pouring year | foundry | Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter ( cm) |
Height (cm) |
Crown (cm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid-18th century | unknown | b ′ | 289 | 83 | 64 | 14th |
| 1960 | Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock | cis ′ ′ | 220 | 71 | 57 | 12 |
The hall church , covered on the outside with a gable roof, on the inside with a flat ceiling made of wood, has five window axes and a retracted choir . She received the principles from 1951 . The sculptor Groß created the altar with carved symbols and a crucifix , the relief on the pulpit and the baptismal font . The silver implements for the communion service come from the goldsmith Riffelmacher, the altar candlesticks from the blacksmith Fritz Kühn . The twelve segment-arched glass windows were manufactured at Puhl & Wagner's designs by Margarethe Grosser .
literature
- Christine Goetz and Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam. Berlin 2003.
- 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.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 36 ′ 4.3 ″ N , 13 ° 20 ′ 21.1 ″ E