Church of the Resurrection (Berlin-Friedrichshain)

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The Church of the Resurrection of the parish of Berlin Stadtmitte is a Protestant church in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain . It was built in the years 1892–1895 on the site of the former poor cemetery on Friedenstrasse . Even after considerable structural changes after the reconstruction in the 1950s, the church is a building and cultural monument.

The Church after Modernization, 2016

location

The Church of the Resurrection is located at Friedenstraße 83 in the Friedrichshain district in the immediate vicinity of Cemetery V of the Protestant Georgen Parish and the cemetery of the St. Petri Congregation . It was built on a poor cemetery that was used until around 1885 , the land of which was owned by the city of Berlin.

Historical background

prehistory

The history of the Berlin poor cemeteries began when the city was founded around 1200 as one of the tasks of the church and monasteries. "In the first decades of the development of the city, all deceased city residents were buried in the oldest church yards of St. Nicolai and St. Petri ." With the increasing differentiation and monetization of urban society and the separation into layers segregated from rich to poor , took over “ Franciscans [1244] and Dominicans [1297] burial of the poor in their cemeteries.” Also “in the cemeteries of the Holy Spirit Hospital [1272 proven] in Spandauer Straße and the Georgen Hospital [1278] on today's northeast corner of the Karl Marx Hospital. Allee / Otto-Braun-Straße ”the destitute were buried. “From 1405 the Gertraudenhospital was added on what would later become Spittelmarkt. [...] This cemetery situation did not change until the end of the 17th century. "

18th century

Monument to Christian Koppe in front of the house at Koppenplatz 13 in Berlin-Mitte

After gradually compensating for the human losses caused by the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), the population growth also led to a rapid increase in poverty, disease and thus a heavy burden on the parishes, which were also responsible for the funerals of the poor to be carried out free of charge. The church felt abandoned by the state and in 1705 there was a refusal of free burials by the pastor of St. George's Church. Probably to defuse the situation, the Berlin city governor Christian Koppe donated a piece of land to the Royal Poor Directorate in the same year: “With the Koppeschen Friedhof, Berlin's first non-ecclesiastical 'poor churchyard' was built, initially under the supervision of the [Prussian] state. In 1819 it was transferred to the municipality and since then has been the first communal cemetery in Berlin. "

With the "Koppeschen donation" 1705 the problem was solved for the time being, but after the French Revolution (1789), the development of new rights of the population in Central Europe and the development of science and technology, there was an immigration to the cities: pre-industrial manufactories and The first factories created new earning opportunities, but the number of poor also rose sharply again in the course of industrialization . The protest now came from the funeral companies ("corpse transport"), who revolted over the obligation to carry out free transports. (Abramowski, p. 20). Since the (urban) Koppesche Friedhof was increasingly busy, the problem lay with the magistrate.

Poor cemetery in front of the Landsberger Tor

“With the division of the old Berlin Feldmark in 1822, the Berlin magistrate took possession of a large piece of hoof in front of the Landsberger Tor. [...] Lord Mayor Johann Gottfried Büsching (1761–1833), who was particularly concerned about the welfare of the poor, [... saw] the piece of land belonging to the Commune, not far from the Landsberger Tor, the most suitable 'for the future construction of a new poor cemetery. "

"In 1831 the 'Asian Hydra', as cholera was called because of its origin, plagued the city." (Abramowski, p. 6). Now those who died of the epidemic had to be buried outside the city walls, regardless of their social status, and the “only about 500 meters away and isolated property in front of the Landsberger Tor was ideally suited for this. It was the site on which the Church of the Resurrection was later to be built on today's Friedensstrasse. ”(Abramowski, p. 8). Since the property was larger than needed for the cholera victims, on April 7, 1832, the magistrate planned to “turn the aforementioned urban property into a poor cemetery.” But cholera plagued the city in ever new waves - “from From 1831 to 1866 there were 18,807 cholera deaths in Berlin. ”(Abramowski, p. 10).

Location at the Zollmauer 1855, Landsberger Tor : top right

In particular, 1837 ...

“(Berlin) was in shock at the time. Cholera was at home in all streets and alleys and the misfortune welded the population together in their grief. And because the disease, with its then unknown cause and high mortality, had something horrible about it, the cholera cemetery at Landsberger Tor became something of a sanctuary for Berliners. This was also expressed in the cemetery culture, which does not make a name for itself with strikingly magnificent monuments, but also does not completely convey the face of a shunned place or an unadorned poor cemetery. [...] In any case, given the extent of the catastrophe that had afflicted the city, the magistrate felt compelled to assure an eternal peace of the dead. "

- Wanja Abramowski : A Church on the Bones of the Poor , mont klamott, 2012, p. 12.

After the Koppesche Poor Cemetery was no longer open, the magistrate decided on December 15, 1838 to expand the “Cholera Cemetery” to the new Poor Cemetery (with confirmation by the City Council on February 14, 1839) and on February 3, 1840, “the Cemetery for the Poor 'Opened in front of the Landsberger Tor at the later Friedensstrasse 84 [today: 83] as the second urban burial place for the poor. "The cemetery was expanded in 1862 and in 1875" the stones of the demolished city ​​wall [...] the cemetery walls of the three Protestant cemeteries that are still preserved today were built . "(Abramowski, p. 14).

19th century

There were also wealthy dead in the “cholera cemetery”, but “the section corpses of the Charité and other clinics as well as those suffering from tuberculosis , also exclusively poor, were buried in the actual poor cemetery.” (P. 21) “Nationalist wave” after the Franco-Prussian War and the unification of the empire in 1871. One was bothered by the name “Armen-Kirchhof”, which was “incompatible [...] with the spirit of the present, humanity” and at the end of 1874 it was named “ Municipal cemetery in front of the Landsberger Tore “renamed. Nothing changed in the matter. The churchyard was closed in 1881 - “in total, the total occupancy number is estimated at at least 34,000 graves, it can amount to up to 48,800 deaths. [...] The city authorities of Berlin immediately set about creating the planned conditions for its liquidation without observing a rest period. "It was intended" for complete leveling and subsequent use as building and road land. "(P. 23)

Construction of the tenement town

The space requirements of the rapidly growing industry and the construction of the tenement city for the workforce dominated the urban expansion of Berlin towards the end of the 19th century. The political disputes also spread. Since the workers and their families are not only left to the political parties (especially the Social Democrats ), but should also be looked after in the Christian sense, "throne and altar" saw themselves challenged:

“In 1890, an unprecedented building boom for Protestant churches began in Berlin and its suburbs. […] In the next four years, the construction of 26 churches (was) started in the area around the imperial capital. 30 were consecrated in 1895 and 55 houses of worship were built by 1903, 18 were still under construction. [...] The Berlin folk joke put it quite drastically: 'We are consecrating churches on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 12 noon.' ”The population had increased tenfold in 100 years“ by 1878 to one million, and by 1903 it doubled again. “(Feustel, p. 5).

Initiative of the royal family

“To combat the religious and moral emergency”, the Evangelical Church Aid Association was founded in May 1888 under the protectorate of the Crown Princess and later Empress Auguste Viktoria. With the donations (up to 1912: 13 million marks new parish offices and parishes were to be created - in consequence this meant the construction of a new church. "Also under the protectorate of Auguste Viktorias , which was soon popularly called 'Kirchenjuste'", a church building association was established , who procured funds and was responsible for the authorities and “going through the instances” (Feustel, p. 5): “The empress found substantial support from the ' Evangelical Church Aid Association ' and her chief steward Ernst“ August ”Freiherr von Mirbach - affectionately called 'Glockenaujust'. "

Of course, it was also about the churches “'as a defense and weapon in the intellectual struggle of the present' - the then Crown Prince (and later Emperor) Wilhelm [… 1887] had already clearly stated: 'Opposed to the fundamental downward tendencies of an anarchist and unbelieving party To seek the real protection of throne and altar in the return of the unbelieving people to Christianity and to the church and thus to the recognition of legal authority and love for the monarchy. ' […] The alienation of the lower social classes in relation to the official church in their close alliance of 'throne and altar' could in any case not be stopped by artistic monumental buildings ”(Feustel, p. 6).

The establishment of the Church of the Resurrection

On November 15, 1885, the magistrate decided to support St. Mark's Church “with the construction of a daughter church with building land. […] Three construction projects were carried out from 1891/1892 on the entire municipal property and mostly on the poor cemetery. The church was planned in the front part on Friedensstrasse, behind it the IV. Higher Citizens School […] and behind this again the 59th / 181st. Community double school. ”The facilities were built in 1892. (Abramowski, 28). After the cemetery was closed around 1886, the area was initially used by a wood shop and a sculptor's workshop (1890).

Closure of the poor cemetery

The church building project was founded with the growth of the St. Markus congregation - from 20,000 to 113,000 people in 1885 since it was founded in 1854. From November 1888, the (ascertainable) surviving relatives were asked to give up the graves. There were multiple protests, mostly documented in letters to the magistrate, but “on July 16, 1889, the police chief von Richthofen granted permission to move the bodies of the poor cemetery.” The 'extremely difficult and never before done in Berlin on this scale The work of excavating and relocating the remains of the corpses, which was not without danger, began in the autumn of 1889 (Abramowski, p. 33 f.). The process is carefully documented and the relocation of the corpses "through the whole city [...] should have been a topic of conversation on everyone." […] The number of corpses exhumed by the end of 1891 was at least 5,427. ”Even more exhumations had to be carried out while the church was being built:“ A report from 1893 shows the exhumation number of 7,805 reburied dead. ”(Abramowski, 36).

"For the liberal magistrate it was a lucrative real estate deal, because in return he received an equally valuable piece of land in the city center at Stralauer Strasse 5 (former orphanage) and got rid of his duties of patronage." (Abramowski, p. 37).

Resurrection Cemetery

In 1899 the parish outside of the then borders of the city of Berlin was assigned a site in the rural community of Weißensee as an associated churchyard. This is where “the first 'Berlin Wall victim' Peter Fechter is buried.” The congregation maintains this grave and his parents' grave as the congregation's grave of honor. An honorary grave of the State of Berlin is shown for the former Bishop Gottfried Forck (born October 6, 1923 in Ilmenau; † December 24, 1996 in Rheinsberg). On June 16, 2016, the chapel of the cemetery at Indira-Gandhi-Straße 110 was reopened after two years of renovation and provided with a tower bell. Since 2017 there have been "TROST concerts in Protestant cemeteries", devotional concerts for all people buried there, including those who have died alone.

The church building in Berlin

Royal disposition

"On the report of the 12th ' d. Mts., [...] I want to approve that the second church to be built in the St. Markus Parish in Berlin will be given the name 'Resurrection Church'. ”Dated December 24, 1890, Wilhelm [II.] R [ex].

The approval was communicated by the "Evangelical Ober Kirchenrath" as "All Highest Decree" with the date December 25, 1890 under the sign EO No. 8870. (Documents in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin).

Church history and architecture

Of the calculated “464,000 marks, 420,000 marks were already available, about half of which were provided by the magistrate and the city synod.” (Feustel, p. 9). As a result, “imperial gifts of grace” were only required at a low level so that “this church was not under the protectorate of the empress” (Feustel, p. 10).

Construction and design from 1892 to 1895

View around 1896

The Church of the Resurrection at Friedenstrasse 84 (today: No. 83) was built between 1892 and 1895 by the Government Building Minister August Menken using a sketch drawn up by Hermann Blankenstein and the overall design . The foundation stone was laid on May 7, 1892 with the participation of Kaiser Wilhelm II by the general superintendent Brückner . “Since the construction work was also protracted, the church could not be inaugurated until May 17, 1895 [...] in the presence of Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia and his wife. […] On February 1st, 1896 the independent resurrection church was formed. "

The church is a three-aisled hall building with iron columns and balconies protruding from the gallery . The building is a masonry structure that is faced with light red clinker bricks , brown shaped bricks and glazed bricks .

The entrance area faces west, with the high square church tower rising above it . Attached to it were two halls for the church council and the confirmands as well as an octagonal tower and staircase to the galleries on the lower floor. The choir area was enclosed by a narrow corridor, which was followed by two semi-square extensions with a narrow vestibule in between.

Layout

The design of the church building shows neo-Romanesque styles based on North German models, enriched with molded stones and glazes and in connection with a buttress system . At the same time, however, the arched style of the Berlin School was retained, which was subsequently only adopted by a few architects. The individual vaulted fields of the side aisles were given gable roofs with gables. The same gable motif can also be found on the choir, which closes in a half-octagon and is closed off by a tent roof with a small roof turret. Inside, rich ornamental paintings covered the walls and vaulted surfaces of the pillars, arches, ribs and corners. The pulpit was made of limestone , the font of marble with a brass lid. The church contained 1,500 seats, 500 of which came on the gallery. The interior of the ship is 31 m long and 21.50 m wide.

The external dimensions are 56 m in length and 32 m in width. The tower was 77 m high and wore a five-pointed helmet .

Between the world wars

The parish priest founds a coffee hall for unemployed and homeless young men. A soup kitchen is also set up in the 1920s. In 1920 the resurrection congregation set up a day nursery that continues to this day.

National Socialism

The Nazi era was marked by the clashes between the loyal German Christians and the group of the Confessing Church around Pastor Buhre. Gunnar Buhre (1889–1965) came from Estonia in 1932 as “managing pastor” to the Resurrection Congregation. After the National Socialists came to power and the German Christians won the landslide in June 1933, the Evangelical Church quickly came to the acid test.

See also: Nazi religious policy

In the resurrection parish, the pastor, who was already experienced in the reign of terror (“He was expelled or fled from the communists in the Baltic States, where he was imprisoned and sentenced to death.” Contribution Ms. Helga Just, Documentation, p. 25) followed a consistent stance: Buhre came Already on September 21, 1933, the day it was founded, joined the Pastors' Emergency League , which first opposed the exclusion of baptized Jews (Jewish Christians) from the congregations.

The Confessing Church emerged from the Notbund in 1934, and Buhre became an advocate: “He was drawn into various disputes in the church struggle. At the Reformation Festival in 1935, Buhre's service was considerably disrupted. ”Uniformed“ SA and SS people ”and the“ Church Elder Mursa ”banned the“ announced collection for the purposes of the Confessing Church ”. For the time being, the Evangelical Oberkirchenrat covered Buhre, but on February 28, 1936, he was expelled from the NSV ( National Socialist People's Welfare ). The parish council of 13 German Christians against five members of the Confessing Church, with the second pastor of the Resurrection Church, Meyer, as chairman, tried to take Buhre leave. This did not succeed, but the tensions intensified, so that a visitation report of the consistory (August 3, 1936) stated: “The church political contradictions within the resurrection congregation - between the pastors and in the parish council - paralyze parish life completely.” The disputes shifted At the end of 1937 the confirmation class: Pastor Meyer referred the responsible “BK-Vicar (Priebe) [...] from the classroom. [...] Thereupon Buhre invited to confirmation classes in his apartment, as well as to a parents' evening on December 18, 1937. "

The author of this report on current affairs, Wolf-Dieter Talkenberger, points to further disputes and assesses: “Especially during the war, Buhre was one of the leading figures in the Confessing Church in Berlin. In this context it deserves particular attention that Pastor Buhre performed several baptisms of Jews and mixed marriages. In 1942 Pastor Buhre was imprisoned for 8 weeks, presumably because of quarrels with the NSV. "

Pastor Buhre remained in his office until 1945. In her report: A personal memory of Pastor Buhre , Helga Just, confirmant from 1940, wrote: I later learned about his work in the former Neuengamme concentration camp , where he later worked as a pastor, from his “ pastor's assistant , Fräulein Adelheit Eckert [...] . During the 1959 Kirchentag in Munich I saw and spoke to him again. […] In 1965 he celebrated the golden wedding with his wife Gertrud and died in the same year. “Buhre“ was last living in Hamburg. He died there on April 23, 1965. He was buried in the old cemetery in Hamburg-Niendorf. ”(Talkenberger, p. 25).

Church of the Resurrection after the reconstruction

Destruction and rebuilding

During the Second World War , the church building was largely destroyed: British air raids on the night of 22/23. November 1943 and from 23./24. The tower was destroyed in March 1944 and set off a fire - the "American bombing raid on February 3, 1945 completely destroyed the nave [...] and the chancel and the roof." Only the tower without the spire and some of the ancillary and annexes remained.

"In 1947 the church building authority stated that the Church of the Resurrection was 'completely destroyed', but that the tower with its ancillary buildings was 'quite usable'" (Feustel, 15).

In 1946 the first rubble had been cleared and the new pastor Hannasky reorganized the community life. By announcing and planning an emergency church in 1947, he obtained the license to rebuild. The tower was given a concrete ceiling with a cross and the left side room was “ inaugurated as an emergency church on July 29, 1951 by the then general superintendent Krummacher . […] By the beginning of 1956, the surrounding walls were up and the pillars were bricked. The church was shortened by one yoke . ”On May 24, 1956, the topping-out ceremony was celebrated. The church interior was weatherproof until autumn 1957.

Choir and altar windows

“In March 1958, the choir window designed by Ms. Pape, which depicts Christ's second coming, was installed.” When the church was rebuilt in 2003, the picture was inserted into the window front of the side wall.

The church was consecrated again on Cantate Sunday , May 14, 1961 by Bishop Dibelius . “City authorities were also invited and appeared.” For the 70th anniversary of the Church of the Resurrection, the new organ was inaugurated on Cantate Sunday, May 16, 1965. It was built by the Eule company ( Bautzen ) and has three manuals and 35 stops .

Last own cantor was Mr. Wolfgang Matthus. After the formation of the district, Ms. Ulrike Blume held this position. Cantor Peter Schnur was appointed in 2019. The regional cantor Justus Eppelmann is responsible for church music in the Friedrichshain area.

organ

The organ is a work by Hermann Eule from 1965.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
01. Pommer 16 ′
02. Principal 08th'
03. Tube bare 08th'
04th octave 04 ′
05. Gemshorn 04 ′
06th Fifth 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
07th octave 02 ′
08th. Forest flute 02 ′
09. Mixture IV-VI
10. Trumpet 08th'
II Hinterwerk C – g 3
11. Dumped 08th'
12. Quintad 08th'
13. Principal 04 ′
14th Nasard 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
15th Pointed octave 02 ′
16. third 01 3 ⁄ 5  ′
17th Sifflet 01'
18th Sharp IV
19th Rankett 16 ′
Tremulant
III Breastwork (swellable) C – g 3
20th Coupling flute 08th'
21st Reed flute 04 ′
22nd Principal 02 ′
23. Fifth 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
24. Sesquialter II 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
25th Zimbel II-III
26th Rohrschalmey 04 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
27. Principal bass 16 ′
28. Sub bass 16 ′
29 Octave bass 08th'
30th Capstan whistle 08th'
31. Choral bass 04 ′
32. Night horn 02 ′
33. Pedal mixture IV
34. trombone 16 ′
35. Clarine 04 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, III / I, I / P, II / P, III / P, 2 free combinations, tutti, tongue holder

post war period

“Pastoral work” - as Pastor G. Schochow wrote in his 1970 report - “has been quite difficult in recent years, although current events have had an impact. Whole streets had to give way to new buildings that are difficult to come into contact with. Special work is devoted to the youth and younger professionals, which Rev. Kraeusel has taken over. ”(Schochow, p. 20). For the general conditions see: Christians and Churches in the GDR .

Memorial plaque in front of the Samaritan Church for the blues mass on June 15, 1980 (photo below)

Blues and rock fairs

The problematic situation of many young people, who could not or did not want to fit into the regime's life cycle guidelines, had found a foothold in beat music and illegal clubs, mostly installed in ruins, since the 1960s , but later there were hardly any rooms for band performances to get. The musician Günter Holwas and the local youth pastor Rainer Eppelmann ( Samariterkirche ) came up with the idea of providing “permission-free” youth services with blues music and organized the first such service on June 1, 1979: “Pastor Eppelmann and his colleague Heinz-Otto Seidenschnur from the Church of the Resurrection recited modern Bible translations. [...] The mixture of music, criticism of the system and prayer soon attracted thousands, so that the event was held twice in one evening - once in the Samaritan Church and once in the Church of the Resurrection. ”The influx was so great that the organizers held the mass in relocated the Lichtenberger Erlöserkirche : “It had a spacious area. A total of 9,000 spectators came to the Blues Mass on April 27, 1984, which was repeated several times in a row . "

The symbol " swords to plowshares " of the GDR peace movement

The state fought back with its resources, but numerous reasons have been put forward for the end of the blues masses: caution on the part of the church leadership so as not to endanger the 1987 church convention, support for the growing GDR peace movement, interest in new music genres. The last trade fairs took place in September 1986.

The Church of the Resurrection also had 'its own musicians': the rock-blues band "Resurrection". The members had also been baptized: “The confessions of the baptismal service were impressive.” Meetings of the 'open youth work' were held, a punk concert was just 'mastered'. A peace working group was founded in 1980 and numerous activities were transferred and expanded within this framework (1982).

“Of course, our openness in the peace circles meant that unofficial state security officers could easily join them. We suspected or knew this, but could not prevent it if we did not want to lock ourselves. "

Women for peace

The appeal Women for Peace was signed by Bärbel Bohley and Katja Havemann shortly after the concert by Bettina Wegner during her performance with Joan Baez Whitsun 1982 in the Waldbühne in West Berlin . Afterwards, an initiative group “ Women for Peace ” was formed in East Berlin in 1982 on the initiative of both women and Ulrike Poppe , Irina Kukutz and Heide Bohley , which resulted in the establishment of around 40 women's peace groups in the GDR.

However, the actual impetus came from the GDR regime itself, because “In 1983 women began to be drafted for military service. As a result, the GDR superiors had apparently crossed a line that challenged the resistance of those affected. Some women who then joined together to form the 'Women for Peace' group "made petitions against military service to the Chairman of the State Council and were then summoned individually for interrogations by the State Security. They were threatened and intimidated, and after a very short time they were criminalized in public. "

Some women turned to Christa Sengespeick, pastor at the Church of the Resurrection since 1982, and with the support of the parish council, a “parish day” was held, which made the issue public and led to further self-organization. The event, which has been handed down in detail in the Stasi minutes , led to further activities.

In autumn 2019 several events took place on the occasion of “30 Years Fall of the Wall / Peaceful Revolution”. On November 17th, Almut Ilsen, Elke Westendorff and Christa Sengespeick-Ross presented the new book “Be loud” - Women for Peace in East Berlin . An exhibition “The Evangelical Resurrection Community Berlin-Friedrichshain in the Focus of the Ministry for State Security - The 1980s” was shown with an accompanying booklet that is based on research that has looked through newly found files. (Ch.Sengespeick-Ross, Th. Berendt, KD Ehmke, self-published)

Congregation Day of Women for Peace on September 17, 1983.

Discussions on the petitions against the drafting of women for military service of the "Women for Peace" on November 11, 1983.

The starting point of the meeting was spontaneous invitations three days before, after which "at least 400 people (gathered) for hours in the church [...] every woman (had) the opportunity to read out her input from the pulpit." (Sengespeick, p. 43 f.)

Women's first night prayer for peace on May 23, 1984.

This was preceded by the arrest of two women from the group, Bärbel Bohley and Ulrike Poppe, which led to the idea of ​​organizing a “night prayer”. Although he was released soon, a preparatory meeting led to further subpoenas. Nevertheless, the night prayer took place and is due to the Stasi report, 3388/84 BC. 25.5.84 '"recorded extremely thoroughly." (Sengespeick, p. 54)

Second Women's Night Prayer for Peace on June 27, 1984.

Pastor and author Christa Sengespeick considers this second night prayer with its 21 intercessions to be too quick and overwhelming. This was preceded by massive pressure from the church leadership for moderation and the event also led to conflicts among women. “Numerous Stasi employees present” stated “400–500 mostly young women around 20–30”. Due to doubts about the “church service character” of the event, a ban had to be feared and the third night prayer followed only a year later. (Sengespeick, p. 83 ff.)

Third Women's Night Prayer for Peace, May 22, 1985.

The event was also called “Night Prayer for the Rubble Women ” and dealt “with the spiritual ruins of our history.” The Stasi also documented the two preparatory meetings. (Sengespeick, 100)

Liturgical Night of Women for Peace , Kirchentag in Berlin in June 1987.

The Church of the Resurrection was not included in the official program of the Kirchentag , but the visitors flocked to the church. "At the same time, an exhibition of East Berlin artists took place in the side chapel." (Sengespeick, p. 115)

Post-turnaround time

Until the political change , the structural condition of the church had deteriorated considerably. Windows in the hall were destroyed, the heating no longer worked.

Reconstruction of the church

The renovation took place between 1993 and 2003 - on the one hand, a restoration based on the original construction documents and, on the other hand, an extensive redesign of the main building: This received a modern installation made of glass and steel and a flat roof. The building got its original proportions back through the extension. A renewed spire for the square tower was omitted. Ecological aspects played a major role in the redesign of the church. The building has a combined heat and power plant , a photovoltaic system , solar facades and clay plaster walls. The architects were Franz and Joachim Voigtländer from Bergisch Gladbach. The altar window found a new place in front of an illuminated wall. The renovation was celebrated in March 2003 with a “festive service for the renewed inauguration”. The liturgical direction was Mrs. Pastor Susanne Krömer (married. Heine).

The church with modern installation

Current Uses

In addition to the church services, which can be held in the tower building on the left or in the large hall, the church has been used for conferences and events by the BESONDERE ORTE Umweltforum Berlin GmbH since the renovation. For this purpose, the altar and baptismal font can be lowered under the floor at the push of a button. The altar, baptismal font, pulpit and cross come from Achim Kühn's workshop . The congregation is also a partner in Special Places - Environmental Forum of the Church of the Resurrection.

In 2005, a joint parish with the Galilee Samaritan community was formed.

On May 19, 2006, on the occasion of the 111th anniversary of the church, the event Words and Sounds took place, in which the former pastor Christa Sengespeick-Roos passages from her book Doing the Very Normal. Read resistance rooms in the GDR church .

Exhibitions and seminars are also held at irregular intervals.

The Ev. Resurrection Community is co-editor of "OSTKREUZ" - Evangelical magazine for Friedrichshain, which appears every 2 months with a print run of 2,500.

The resurrection community is home to a special children and youth initiative “Children need mud”, which has achieved supra-regional importance and has received special awards for it. (UN Decade of Biological Diversity as part of the special competition "Social Nature - Nature for All", 2019)

Remarks

  1. ↑ (Friedrichshainer Geschichtsverein Hans Kohlhase eV, W. Abramowski, p. 6 and note 10, p. 40): “August Stüler recalls the first communal poor cemetery today above the Koppeschen family crypt on Koppenplatz in Mitte the Corinthian Lysiskratesmonument in Athens designed classical grave monument. "
  2. ↑ A tremendous dynamic encompassed all areas of life. Since 1800, masses of people have moved from the countryside to the city in the hope of work, housing and better living opportunities. The downside of progress has been unemployment, homelessness, child labor, epidemics and neglect. […] The wars of liberation against Napoleon from 1813 to 1815 brought additional misery - sick, wounded, disabled and prisoners of war. (Katharina Kunter: 500 years of Protestantism , Palm Verlag, Berlin 2016, p. 158 f. ISBN 978-3-944594-45-3 .)
  3. ↑ This is a calculated value by the author based on the information provided by a cemetery administrator, 1889, and the property size of 31,725 ​​square meters (p. 42).
  4. ↑ "According to today's purchasing power, almost ten times as much as euros" (Kunter: 500 years , p. 157.).
  5. ↑ “Her charity and her role as a wife and mother of seven children, which was seen as exemplary, made her enormously popular among the Berlin population. Of course, they could not cover the great gap between the emperor and the population. ”(K. Kunter: 500 Years of Protestantism , p. 158). The Berlin journalist Walter Kiaulehn identified another motive: “Up until the beginning of the 20th century there were almost more theaters in Berlin than churches. For Auguste Viktoria, the wife of Wilhelm II, this was the reason for her huge church building program. ”( Walter Kiaulehn : Berlin. Schicksal einer Weltstadt, Biederstein Verlag, Munich Berlin 1958, p. 100.
  6. ↑ The church burned down in 1944 and its ruins were removed in 1957.
  7. ↑ "According to the laws of the GDR, only church services (as religious acts) were exempt from the registration requirement, which applied to all public events." The community day should contain a church service, "but also made other forms of conversation and encounter possible." (Sengespeick, P. 30).
  8. ↑ The nine-page protocol with the note “Top secret!” Dated September 21, 1983 under No. 311/83 is printed in the book Doing the whole thing on pages 32-40. The minutes and tapes of the other events are also documented in the book.
  9. ↑ The women also recalled "that in the ' hunger winter' of 1946/47 in Berlin 60,000 people starved to death." (Stasi protocol, May 22, 1985, p. 98, printed in: Sengespeick, p. 107).

literature

  • Wilhelm Lütkemann: German Churches - Volume 1 - The Protestant Churches in Berlin (Old City) . Verlag für Volksliteratur, Berlin 1926, p. 47 ff .
  • Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephani: Evangelical churches in Berlin. Christlicher Zeitschriftenverlag (CZV), Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-7674-0158-4 , p. 400.
  • Ernst Badstübner , Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger: Churches in Berlin - From St. Nikolai to the community center "Am Fennpfuhl" with photos by Martin Dettloff. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt , Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-374-00171-8 , p. 196 (ill. P. 140).
  • Jan-Michael Feustel : Building history of the Church of Resurrection , in: Church of Resurrection 1895–1995 , Documentation, Berlin 1995, Archive of the Resurrection Community.
  • Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin (ed.): Berlin and its buildings , part VI, sacred buildings . Verlag Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-433-01016-1 , p. 89, 375, fig. 194 .
  • Christa Sengespeick-Roos: Doing the normal. Resistance rooms in the GDR church , Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1997. ISBN 978-3-944594-45-3 .
  • Hans-Jürgen Mende, Kurt Wernicke (ed.): Berlin district lexicon Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. Haude & Spener, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-7759-0474-3 .
  • Ralf Schmiedecke: Berlin-Friedrichshain. The archive images series. Sutton Verlag Erfurt 2006. ISBN 3-86680-038-X .
  • Wanja Abramowski : A Church on the Bones of the Poor , in: mont klamott , February 2012/02, 8th year, no. 85. Friedrichshainer Geschichtsverein Hans Kohlhase e. V.
  • Katharina Kunter: 500 years of Protestantism , Palm Verlag, Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-944594-45-3 .
  • Almut Ilsen, Ruth Leiserowitz (ed.): BE LOUD! Women for Peace in East Berlin, Ch.Links Verlag Berlin 2019. ISBN 978-3-96289-065-0

Video

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wanja Abramowski: A church on the bones of the poor in: mont klamott , February 2012/02, 8th year, no. 85. Friedrichshainer Geschichtsverein Hans Kohlhase e. V., p. 4 f.
  2. ↑ Dr. Jan Feustel: Building history of the Church of Resurrection in: Church of Resurrection 1895–1995, Documentation, Berlin 1995, Archive of the Resurrection Community, p. 5.
  3. ↑ Information sheet on the history of the Erlöserkirche in Lichtenberg, parish council, 2010.
  4. ↑ Berlin address book | 1890 | 1611 | Friedenstraße 84 | part = part II | page 123.
  5. ↑ F. Messow, A. Heinichen, Ch. Werner: From the chronicle of the churchyard of the Resurrection Community , in: Documentation Church of Resurrection 1895–1995.
  6. ↑ Dr. Jan Feustel: Building history of the Church of Resurrection in: Church of Resurrection 1895–1995, Documentation, Berlin 1995, Archive of the Resurrection Church, p. 10.
  7. ^ Ralf Schmiedecke: Berlin-Friedrichshain. The archive images series. Sutton Verlag Erfurt 2006. ISBN 3-86680-038-X . P. 54.
  8. ↑ Quotations in the section: Wolf-Dieter Talkenberger: Pastor Buhre and his work in the Auferstehungskirchengemeinde in Berlin in: Auferstehungskirche 1895-1995, Documentation, Berlin 1995, pp. 22-25, Archive of the Resurrection Church.
  9. ↑ Helga Just: A personal memory of Pastor Buhre in: Auferstehungskirche 1895–1995, Documentation, Berlin 1995, p. 25 f., Archive of the Resurrection Community.
  10. ↑ Documentation in the archive of the Resurrection Community, Berlin 1995, p. 17.
  11. ↑ Quotations in the section: Pastor G. Schochow: Reconstruction of the Church of Resurrection , April 23, 1970, in: Church of Resurrection 1895–1995, Documentation, Berlin 1995, pp. 22–25, Archive of the Resurrection Church, pp. 17–20.
  12. ↑ Kreuzhainer, online portal: With Blues and Bible against the GDR regime , June 3, 2014. kreuzhainer.de .
  13. ↑ Christa Sengespeick-Roos: Doing the normal. Resistance rooms in the GDR church. Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1997, pp. 20–24.
  14. ↑ Christa Sengespeick-Roos: Doing the whole normal thing , 1997, p. 30.
  15. ↑ build / 11 projects / 2002 berlinexkurs / Excursion2002 02 auferstehungskirche.pdf Ecological building  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 205 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.uni-weimar.de  
  16. ^ Website of the environmental forum .
  17. ↑ Event program 111 Years of the Church of the Resurrection , May 2006. There also information on the chronology.

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